Asia Pacific

Scientist, Advanced

Job Location: Asia Pacific

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Job Schedule: Full Time

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The Printing & Packaging team is searching for an Advanced/ Scientist to join the Global R&D organization at our Michelman Asia Technology & Innovation Centre in Singapore.

Informed by critical market needs and/or emerging trends, you will be developing prototypes of waterborne product concepts by understanding structure/property fundamentals and translating them to product functionality. Your ability to clearly define the problem to be solved along with your insightful and effective experimentation will yield prototypes which provide a “reason to believe” for novel functional benefits in applications which support the major growth platforms of Michelman’s Printing & Packaging businesses.

Using your excellent problem-solving skills and creativity, you will quickly screen new technologies and/or materials as possible solutions.

Effective collaboration with other stakeholder groups including business-centric technology, marketing, and manufacturing teams to translate those concepts into successful product platforms will be among your critical success factors – as will your ability to live Michelman’s Values & Behaviors.

Primary Responsibilities

• Collaborate with other teams/groups at Michelman to develop problem statements based both on trends in the market and on latent customer needs

• Design new (and sometimes complex) product development experiments to be conducted at the lab scale – either by you or by others

• Build a working knowledge of coatings application methods and performance tests which will enable the development of new concepts

• Collaborate in the development of new application-centric solutions to be enabled by technologies available to Michelman (internally or externally) to support collaboration and learning with business-centric technology teams

• Develop new product prototypes by iteratively preparing lab scale batches for evaluation and testing them against market-relevant success criteria/controls

• Document thoroughly and accurately all experiments, analyses, and testing results

• Ensure timely delivery of project-related information/results to company partners

• Plan, initiate, and execute projects using the Michelman project management process

• Provide reports (written and verbal) on technical results/conclusions to business and technology leadership

• Build an effective collaboration with the global technical team to foster a culture of idea exchange and knowledge transfer

• Lead internal discussions to ensure that colleagues remain up-to-date on relevant product/application issues

• Maintain a clean and safe work environment

• Perform related duties as assigned or as the situation dictates

Others

• Able to travel by car or plane to visit customers when needed

• Role may on occasion require long periods of standing and/or an extended work schedule

• Role may require heavy lifting from time to time (as much as 23 kilograms to waist level)

• Role will demand appropriate use of PPE - including safety shoes

Critical Competencies, Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Excellent analytical and observation skills

• Practical experience developing waterborne products and/or formulations

• Demonstrated track record of innovation, technology scouting, and/or process/product prototyping is highly desirable

• Basic understanding of a wide range of coating application and testing methodologies

• Experience with stage-gate project management and the types of documentation required by that process

• Agility/flexibility to adapt to changing project priorities and to manage multiple tasks and projects simultaneously

• Ability to develop new laboratory methods as needed to address technical challenges and train others (as needed) in their effective use

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal)

Education and Experience

• Master’s degree or Ph.D. in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Polymer/Materials Science, or related field. The level of the position will depend on the academic degree combined with years of experience.

• Practical experience developing waterborne materials and/or formulated products required with experience in Circular Economy consumer packaging considered a plus. 

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