Product 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 50,000 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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**This position will be located on site, 5 days per week at our lab in Lexington, MA**

YOUR ROLE

• As a product development chemist is responsible for making new polymer/coating/adhesive/additive
• This role requires in depth understanding of synthesis, characterization, and testing from early to late stages of products
• The successful candidate provides day-to-day R&D support and input into development strategies, selection of synthetic routes, scale-up and characterization/testing of new product development processes
• Fully manage and lead product analysis and testing while documenting progress and results in the LIM systems
• Develop and engage in new product development (polymer, coating, adhesive, and additive) daily-basis.
• Make valuable contributions to assessment of the newly developed products (mechanical, chemical testing)
• Work safely day-to-day in the laboratory
• Demonstrate processes safely in the laboratory, pilot and manufacturing
• Report results to collaborators and management both verbally and in writing

YOUR SKILLS

• Masters Degree in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering
• 5 years relevant experience
• Experience with analytical techniques such as HPLC, GPC, NMR, FTIR, MS are preferred.
• Knowledge in Design of Experiments (DOE), computational chemistry, and statistical analysis is a plus.
• Demonstrated knowledge of chemical synthesis and formulation is a plus.

**This position will be located on site, 5 days per week at our lab in Lexington, MA**

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Henkel is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and other legally protected characteristics.

The salary for this role is $70,000- $85,000. 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.

JOB ID: 23053939 Contract & Job type: Full Time, Regular Contact information for application-related questions: 1-866-836-7067