What are the responsibilities and job description for the Color Formulation Specialist position at Nippon Paint Automotive Americas, Inc.?
Nippon Paint Automotive Americas Inc. is a leading manufacturer of high-quality coatings for the automotive industry. Our team offers employees a comprehensive benefits package, including earned bonuses, merit increases, and an annual bonus incentive plan. Employees receive 11 paid holidays per year, earn paid time off, and can enroll in comprehensive health and welfare plans as well as a 401K plan with an exceptional company match.
We foster a culture of employee recognition, providing opportunities for professional growth and development through tuition reimbursement and ongoing training programs. When you join our team, you become part of our NPAA family, where we value collaboration and mutual respect.
Position Overview
This role requires a detail-oriented individual to perform customer-focused lab work, including paint and panel preparation, customer correlation work, record keeping, and other customer/product support activities as established by supervisor.
Key Responsibilities
- Technical Expertise: Utilize general knowledge of formula raw materials and coatings chemistry to recognize technical issues, apply basic understanding of coatings working with supervisor to analyze project results, and establish a path forward for projects. Contribute ideas for internal and external problem solving, use product loading charts for formulating new colors, and may have occasional direct customer contact.
- Application Knowledge: Operate hand-spray application equipment to generate consistent test/evaluation panels. Learn key customer application methods and automated spray equipment concepts (e-state, rotary, etc). Gain a deeper understanding of the concepts required for consistent spray correlation (ie. atomization, gun speed and distance). Spray per existing correlations with limited assistance and capable of creating a new customer correlation with assistance. Modify product or application settings to improve product work-ability with guidance.
- Communication Skills: (oral and written): Communicate technical information/project results to chemists, group managers, and the Technical Director. Communicate frequently with in-house representatives at assigned accounts and occasionally visit customers with Field Technical Service Team. Write monthly reports to manager, keep detailed records of all project formulations, results, and analyses in laboratory notebook; write detailed laboratory reports with conclusions, analysis, and supporting data for internal and external review. Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint and use these tools to clearly communicate ideas and data.
- Customer Focus: Travel with other NPAA personnel to support customer needs. Demonstrate basic understanding of internal NPAA procedures to address customer requests. Adjust schedule as management requests in order to meet customer expectations and timelines. Relay results directly to Field Technical Service with management review. Basic customer interaction required with assistance.
- Business Process: Use existing business processes in order to transition paint from Lab to Plant to Customer including RMIF, TSCA/DSL, NMI, Test Lab/Spec Testing, Formula Holds, SAP, AS/400, EDS, Mass Change, Lab Notebooks, Customer Idios, Customer Correlations, and Complaint Process. Requires detailed understanding of these processes, and independent use in order to move tasks forward, including completion with a focus on timeliness.
- Move waste from generation point to 90-day Storage Area.
- Properly close and label waste containers using NPAA procedures.
