R&D Sr. Chemist

The Senior Chemist is accountable for contributing to and/or leading Quality Investigations, ARC's, KT's, Continuous Improvement - Process and Product, and 6-sigma/DFSS methodologies. This include support for GSC Architectural including - Architectural coatings including Stores and Brands Interior and Exterior coatings, Light IM, Aerosols, Building Materials, Woodcare and Applicators. This position will have the opportunity to learn and demonstrate the use of data analytic tools including DFSS, Tableau, and others.

This position is located at an R&D Breen Technology Center and is accountable for assisting the scaling up and commercializing of our products to full scale production locations. This includes traveling to observe batches at production plants and leveraging knowledge to Operations and Technical. In this position, the individual will lead multiple projects by utilizing and leveraging their scientific knowledge.

Job duties include contact with other employees and access to confidential and proprietary information and/or other items of value, and such access may be supervised or unsupervised. The Company therefore has determined that a review of criminal history is necessary to protect the business and its operations and reputation and is necessary to protect the safety of the Company's staff, employees, and business relationships.

Responsibilities include:

1. Project Management
* Ensures all assigned projects are completed in accordance with the project requests, under limited supervision.
* May lead small, moderately technically challenging projects or large portions of a technically challenging large project, with limited supervision.
* Establishes own timeline by required due date, with minimal or no changes made by the leader/manager
* Partner with team members to execute key project deliverables.
* Lead TQI Projects including ARC investigations, KT, and quality Investigations in support of GSC control labs.
* Complete FMEAs studies to ensure issue replication and technology robustness for downstream development and formula robustness for production.
* Frequent and direct interaction with Manufacturing, Quality, PTS, Process Engineering, Technical Labs, and various support groups.
* Identifies and overcomes potential obstacles to meet customer timelines.
* Leverages their technical knowledge to other team members, groups, or divisions

2. Technical and Professional Knowledge
* Identification/assessment of technologies, paint making and testing, data analysis, and application of paint formulation/knowledge to meet performance requirements.
* Has broad awareness of group business knowledge and understands global impact of work decisions
* Establishes and executes experiments using appropriate experimental design parameters.
* Analyzes data, makes decisions based upon data, demonstrates critical thinking and recognizes anomalies.
* Performs background searches on research concerns, evaluations, and pitfalls to generate solutions
* Identify continuous improvement opportunities, implement and publish changes (FMEA, scale-up model and procedures, processing OOA, etc.)
* Optimizes formulations, equipment and process steps. Identifies and implements process improvements. Troubleshoots new and existing formulas, implements suggestions

3. Safety and Quality
* Ensure Safety, Housekeeping, and ISO practices are followed.
* Maintains certification on and follows quality standards, such as ITM's and ICM's
* Actively seeks to reduce risk through corrective action
* Documents and maintains an up-to-date electronic lab notebook and project folder per/maintains ISO standards.

4. Communication
* Written documentation and verbal presentation of information and the ability to adapt to various audiences.
* Accurate documentation of lab results and technical information.
* Communicates/interfaces with other departments, develops relationships & influences others.
* Communicates work progress, status, completion, issues and suggests solutions.

BASIC QUALIFICATION:
* Must be legally authorized to work in the country for which you are applying for employment (without now or in the future needing sponsorship for employment work visa and/or permanent residence status).
* Must be at least 18 years of age

FORMAL EDUCATION:
Required:
* Bachelor's Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, Math ("STEM") field

Preferred:
* Bachelor's Degree in Chemistry

KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE:
Required:
* 5 years of industrial lab experience
* 3 years of coatings formulation or processing related field
* Resolves complex problems and develops the solution of problems, formulation, development, process, maintenance, and equipment issues
* Works independently through planning, execution, analysis, documentation and application of work consistently providing quality work
* Basic knowledge of statistics and data
* Demonstrated leadership skills, relationship building, and decision-making ability
* Demonstrated interpersonal, organizational and project management skills

Preferred:
* DFSS, ARC, KT and 6-Sigma certification

TECHNICAL/SKILL REQUIREMENTS:
Required:
* Must have 5 years' experience in paint formulation/processing

Preferred:
* Design of Experiments, Minitab, Business Objects, DFSS, 6-Sigma Certification

TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS: 10%

Upon completion of construction, the individual selected for this role will primarily work at the new Sherwin-Williams Global Technology Center in Brecksville, Ohio. Construction is expected to be complete in 2025. Until then, the role will be based at Breen Technology Center, located at 601 Canal Road, Cleveland, OH 44113.