United States, Rocky Hill, CT, Adhesive Technologies

Sr Development Chemist 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.

Dare to make an impact?

YOUR ROLE Design, develop, execute, and support on-time commercialization of new adhesive formulations and products. Conceive innovative routes in new product development. Employ sound experimental designs to effectively develop new materials for electronic applications. Prepare and deliver presentations on research projects for internal teams, management, customers, and technical conferences. Directly interact and communicate with external customers and respond to customer requests in timely fashion. Effectively work in cross functional teams across different time zones with members from product development, project management, application engineering, process engineering, marketing, and sales. Demonstrate strong communication skills.
Understand state-of-art technology advancement and apply it to product development. Generate new intellectual properties. Actively search for new ideas and technology from within or outside. Demonstrate strong problem-solving skills. Recognize sources of problems; absorb new information easily; expose gaps in logic and contradictions; develop effective solutions to technical roadblocks. Self-starter with strong initiative. Perform all laboratory work in a safe manner and comply with all regulations, safety precautions, PPE requirements, and 5S processes. Acts as responsible for new research, IP, publications, technology roadmap. Secures IP position in own area of development. YOUR SKILLS Master’s or PhD degree in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Polymer Sciences, Materials Science, or in any other related scientific areas, is highly preferred. Evidence of scientific productivity through high impact peer review publications. 0-10 years industrial experience in adhesives or polymer science-related role and 5-15 Years Preferred. Knowledge of structure-property relationship of materials and analytical and materials characterization techniques (DMA, TMA, DSC, TGA, SEM, HPLC, GC-MS, FTIR, ICP-MS, GPC, etc.). Demonstrated leadership ability and collaboration within teams in a dynamic and culturally diverse workplace (previous internship/co-op experience is a plus). Strong oral and written communication skills, and excellent interpersonal skills are essential.

The salary for this role is $80,000.00 - $96,700.00. 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 depending on experience.  This salary range may also be modified in the future.

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