R&D Engineer
The Sherwin-Williams Company - Valley View, Ohio
Position Responsibilities:
Excellent growth opportunity for an individual interested in leading projects and/or project teams as a member of the GFG/Protective and Marine Commercialization Engineering Team. Position is accountable for contributing to and/or leading process improvements, ARC, and quality investigation projects for P&M high performance coatings
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
· Frequent and direct interaction with Protective and Marine Technical groups, PTS, Manufacturing, and various other support groups.
· Lead processing/scale up studies to ensure technology robustness for downstream development and formula robustness for production
· Identify and resolve quality, consistency, and processing issues encountered with new or existing formulations using root cause analysis
· Provide Engineering support (DOE designs, Processing studies, data analysis, formula/processing recommendations, and test batch) to P&M technical organization throughout the stage gate process to ensure new product development success
· Identify continuous improvement opportunities and implement changes (scale up process, processing OOA, tracking sheet, test batch process, etc.)
· Generate and communicate reports and data to support ongoing projects and programs
· Provide timely and accurate data analysis to help resolve field complaints, raw material issues, manufacturing problems, and support existing and new product development.
· Support customers both internal and external with timely and accurate solutions to multiple moderately complex problems on a variety of topics.
Experience Required:
2-year minimum experience
Formulating or processing solvent-borne and water-borne acrylic, alkyd, epoxy and urethane chemistries.
Design of Experiments, Minitab, Lean, ARC and/or six sigma training preferred
Other Qualifications:
Proven problem solving/decision making ability
Strong communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills
High level of initiative and leadership ability
Excellent organization and planning skills
Education Required:
Basic Qualifications:
• Must be at least 18 years of age
• Bachelor's of Science degree including 2 semesters of General Chemistry and 2 semesters of Organic Chemistry
Other Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering or other Engineering Discipline preferred
Posted: 30+ days ago
About The Sherwin-Williams Company
The year 2016 is a unique moment in the history of Sherwin-Williams — it’s our 150th anniversary. We are proud to honor our founders Henry Sherwin and Edward Williams, and the thousands of men and women who have shaped our company since 1866... more
