United States, Irvine, CA, Adhesive Technologies

Scientific Principal At Henkel, you can build on a strong legacy and leading positions in both industrial and consumer businesses to reimagine and improve life every day. If you love challenging the status quo, join our community of over 47.000 pioneers around the globe. Our teams at Henkel Adhesive Technologies help to transform entire industries and provide our customers with a competitive advantage through adhesives, sealants and functional coatings. With our trusted brands, our cutting-edge technologies and our disruptive solutions, you will have countless opportunities to explore new paths and develop your skills. Grow within our future-led businesses, our diverse and vibrant culture and find a place where you simply belong. All to leave your mark for more sustainable growth.

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YOUR ROLE Develop new technologies and products in support of electronic adhesives business. Identifies opportunities for new technologies, products, or performance improvements. Leads one or multiple R&D projects critical to business and ensures timely project milestone advancement. Actively makes specialized knowledge available to the organization. Stays current with technology and market megatrends. Acts as responsible for new research, IP, publications, technology roadmap. Secures IP position in own area of development. Design, develop, execute and support on-time commercialization of new adhesive formulations and products.
Directly interact and communicate with external customers and respond to customer requests in timely fashion. Traveling of up to 10% is required. Effectively work in cross functional teams across different time zones with members from product development, project management, application engineering, process engineering, marketing and sales. Perform all laboratory work in a safe manner. Guide and mentor junior chemists as needed. YOUR SKILLS PhD degree in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Polymer Sciences, Materials Science, or in any other related scientific areas. Minimum 5-10 years of experience in the areas of silicone based adhesives and sealants, thermoset materials, adhesive formulations, electronic materials, or semiconductor packaging is required. Individual with proven track record of success such as new technologies and products developed, invention disclosures and patents, and published scientific papers publication in peer reviewed journals. Regularly work in a chemical laboratory environment. May require passing additional security screening based on customer requirements. 

The salary for this role is $125,000.00 - $150,000.00. This is the range that we in good faith anticipate relying on when setting wages for this position.  We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and this range.  This salary range may also be modified in the future.

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JOB ID: 24065515 Contract & Job type: Regular - Full Time Contact information for application-related questions: talent.acquisition@henkel.com Please do not use this email address for sending your application or CV. To apply, please click on the "Apply Now" button below. Applications sent via e-mail will not be accepted.