What are the responsibilities and job description for the Chemist position at ALTIVIA?
Job Details
Description
Lab Operations
- Glassware synthesis
- Analyses and method development
- Support lab information and documentation
Instrument Operation and Method Development
- Gas Chromatography
- Titrations
- Nitrogen Analysis
- Sulfur Analysis
- X-Ray
- FTIR
Computer Skills
- Excel
- Word
- Chem Station
Plant and Project Operations
- Project evaluation and implementation
- Assist operations team in troubleshooting production related issues
- Provide Process Safety Management (PSM) support
- Pilot Plant Operation
- dentify potential processing hazards and quality control issues
- Write operational procedures and conduct operations team training
Customer Relations
- Communicate project related information
- Work with customers and sales to resolve issues and/or complaints
- Identify opportunities for improvement
- Work with customer to ensure successful operation of new and ongoing projects
Management and Supervision
- Train and develop junior chemists
- Organize resources to provide laboratory and quality support for operations and pilot plant
Qualifications
- Minimum MS in Chemistry, PhD preferred
- Minimum 20 years experience in laboratory / chemical processing environment
- Organic Chemistry Experience in batch and continuous processing, distillation, filtration, solids handling,, alkoxylation, maleation, esterification, amine-acid reactions, Mannich base reactions, phenol-formaldehyde Reactions preferred.
- Experience in batch processing preferred
- Product and Process development experience required; strong synthesis background preferred
- Process scale up experience preferred
- PSM experience required
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to timely communicate to Management and to Subordinates
- Strong Leadership skills a plus
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Type of Experience |
Capabilities Promoted by Experience |
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Product Development |
Application awareness – extremely important in response to customer issues or problems |
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Process Development |
Troubleshooting and efficiency improvement |
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Pilot Plant work |
Innovation, capability assessment, and liability recognition |
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New Product Introduction |
Scale up and sensitivity to commercial scale issues |
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Plant experience – direct or associated |
Ability to communicate with operations, maintenance, and engineering personnel |
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Plant experience – direct or associated |
Ability to learn from operations, maintenance, and engineering personnel |
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Plant experience – direct or associated |
Ability to teach operations, maintenance, and engineering personnel |
