R&D- Senior Chemist (Beverage Can Product Development)

The Senior Chemist Beverage Inside Spray Development provides advanced technical expertise in the formulation development testing scale-up commercialization and ongoing support of interior spray coatings for beverage cans. This role combines a strong understanding of polymer chemistry with hands-on coating formulation and application knowledge creativity and scientific curiosity to develop differentiated coating technologies and optimize coating systems that meet customer manufacturing and business requirements.

The Senior Chemist independently leads product-development and commercialization projects of moderate to high complexity coordinates cross-functional and global stakeholders and serves as a technical resource for spray-coating formulation and application. The position translates customer and end-use requirements into robust commercially viable coating solutions and clearly communicates technical findings risks and recommendations to internal and external stakeholders.

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 Companys staff employees and business relationships.

10% Travel

• Formulate develop test and optimize beverage can interior spray coatings to meet customer performance regulatory quality cost sustainability and manufacturing requirements.
• Apply advanced knowledge of polymer chemistry resins crosslinkers additives solvents waterborne technologies and structure-property relationships to solve complex formulation and coating-performance challenges.
• Design and execute laboratory experiments; analyze and interpret technical data; document results; and recommend formulation raw-material processing or application changes.
• Partner with Polymer Development to evaluate and incorporate new or modified resin technologies including participation in resin synthesis resin-cook scale-up and related technical activities.
• Develop improve validate and document fit-for-purpose laboratory and application test methods that reliably differentiate coating performance and correlate with manufacturing customer-line pack and end-use conditions.
• Identify limitations or gaps in existing test methods and partner with other SW groups to establish improved approaches.
• Use emerging technologies technical literature competitive insights and external collaboration to strengthen innovation and accelerate learning.
• Develop hands-on expertise with beverage can inside-spray equipment and application methods including equipment setup operation cleaning calibration and maintenance.
• Evaluate and optimize the interaction among polymer design coating formulation solvent system application (spray equipment settings and set-up film weight) can geometry and end-use performance.
• Diagnose whether application issues such as blistering wetting or coverage are driven by polymer design formulation variables equipment settings or a combination of factors.
• Independently lead multiple technical projects from concept through formulation testing scale-up customer qualification commercialization and transfer to manufacturing.
• Balance technical performance customer requirements regulatory considerations manufacturing capability product cost project risk and speed to market when developing solutions and making recommendations.
• Serve as a technical interface for strategic customers and external partners; support visits trials qualification activities commercialization and technical issue resolution.
• Collaborate closely with Product Development Polymer Development Analytical Manufacturing Quality Regulatory Customer Technical Service Marketing and other partners to achieve project objectives.
• Coordinate clear timely communication among stakeholders located in different functions organizations geographies and time zones.
• Prepare and communicate clear technical reports project updates presentations conclusions and recommendations to technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Provide technical guidance and mentoring to chemists technicians and other laboratory personnel; coordinate project activities and share formulation application and problem-solving knowledge across the team.
• Perform all work in accordance with established safety environmental quality housekeeping product-development change-management and documentation requirements.
• Apply creativity scientific judgment and independent problem-solving to advance technical solutions in areas where established paths may not exist

Minimum Requirements
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
Must have a bachelors degree in a Science Technology Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) field
At least 5 years of experience in industrial chemistry coatings formulation polymer development or related product-development experience.
Experience designing experiments analyzing technical data and independently solving complex formulation or application problems.
Experience working on technical projects through product development scale-up qualification or commercialization.
Experience operating laboratory equipment and perform hands-on formulation application and testing work with or without reasonable accommodation
Experience communicating technical findings and recommendations clearly through written reports presentations and cross-functional discussions.

Preferred Qualifications
Bachelors degree in Chemistry Polymer Science Chemical Engineering Material Science or related fields
Advanced degree in STEM related field
Experience as a Lead Chemist
Experience interacting with Commercial team customers and brand owners
Strong working knowledge of polymer chemistry and polymer structure-property relationships.
Experience in the paint coatings packaging adhesives sealants or specialty-materials industry.
Direct experience formulating beverage can food can metal-packaging or other protective industrial coatings.
Experience formulating beverage can interior spray coatings or other high-pressure industrial spray-applied coating systems.
Knowledge of relevant coating chemistries including epoxy acrylic polyester latex polyurethane or other thermoset or thermoplastic systems.
Demonstrated success advancing new or reformulated products through development validation customer qualification and commercialization readiness
Experience in developing innovative solutions and test methods
Experience working with international colleagues
Familiar with DFLSS and DMAIC approaches comfortable setting up DOEs and evaluating outputs in Minitab

Successful candidate will be required to sign an Employee Restrictive Covenant Agreement where permitted by law.