Color Technologist

As a Color Technologist at PPG you will facilitate coatings production at PMC Plants by developing color formulations and supporting production color matching activities. You will identify improvement opportunities in manufacturing to meet production and quality targets. You will report to

Key Responsibilities

• Develop color formulations for production.

• Support plants with troubleshooting for problematic batches.

• Ensure color formulations developed in the laboratory are reproducible in the manufacturing plant.

• Support production scale-ups launches and maintenance of products.

• Support problem solving and root cause analysis for manufacturing and field concerns/complaints.

• Make raw material substitutions based on lab work and technical expertise and authorize changes on batch tickets.

• Provide color support for rework operations by identifying material and quantities to rework into new production batches.

• Evaluate new raw materials for potential replacement/substitution of existing raw materials.

• Help mentor team members in color science.

• Provide scheduled on-call support for manufacturing processes across all shifts and weekends.

• Travel to PMC Plants to support production and training needs.

• Other projects and responsibilities as assigned by the department manager.

Qualifications

• BS degree in chemistry engineering or technical discipline and 3 years of experience in the color science field.

• Good color perception experience with spectrophotometers/color matching devices and proficiency with software formulation knowledge experience with quality control testing and manufacturing process knowledge.

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