Education Background : Bachelor or above in polymer or macromolecule

Experiences : Coating for packaging, coil coating, General industrial, protective coating, metal adhesive (in sequence of preference)

Technical Skill Requirement:

• Ability in applying fundamental manufacturing and operational principles and practices;
• Ability in researching and resolving quality problems;
• Ability in performing intermediate quality, statistical, and related analytical studies;
• Experienced in providing technical customer service;
• Experienced in developing project reports and findings;
• Hands on experience with analytical instruments: FT-IR, GC, Particle Size analyzer etc.,
• Experienced in serving as a liaison with management;
• Good working relationship with internal and external customers;
• Ability in interpreting and applying department policies and procedures and applicable laws, rules, and regulations;
• Good PC skills including Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) and other applicable applications;
• Ability in communicating with co-workers to provide and receive direction.
• Safe chemicals handling, lab operation on solvent borne and water borne products

EHS and 6S & Confidentiality

• HES and 6S responsibility in lab
• Strong ownership of EHS and 6S in his working environment
• Lab equipment daily maintenance
• Abide by RD confidentiality principles

Formulation and lab process

• Independence on planning, implementing and updating projects on regular basis
• Capability of modifying existing products or developing new products to meet customers’ new requirement
• Communication skill across technical, commercial and production boundaries;
• Proactiveness on looking for alignment on timeline and milestones with stakeholders
• Well-organized report as output of every project handled
• Lab process concept with right understanding of the consequence of upscaling to production

Problem solving and customer support

• Result driven and customer focus
• 6 sigma and problem-solving skill, like problem definition, measurement, analysis, improvement and control (anything similar is acceptable)
• Ability to coordinate with global and regional analytical team to identify root cause
• Customer visit to understand Sherwin William’s products application and line parameters

Production support

• Able to run PI (production introduce process) to introduce changes (formula change, process change and others) to production to minimize risks
• Supervise pilot batches
• Support defective batch solution or raw material shelf life extension
• Support product transfer as needed at Chemist level