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POSITION SUMMARY:
Key Responsibilities
Promote a safe work culture that includes leading by example, ensuring compliance with lab and workplace safety requirements, supporting risk assessments, and continuous improvement.
Formulate new solutions according to a developed project schedule across metal-working fluids, lubricants, and other related chemistries.
Utilize experimental design during feasibility studies to quickly drive the development path to a decision point.
Actively participate in commercialization activities, including bill-of-materials (BOM) and safety-data sheet (SDS) reviews, and other ISO-driven processes.
Develop new, when required, and ensure that appropriate test procedures exist and are maintained to support accurate product monitoring and field performance verification.
Conduct evaluations of existing DuBois products and competitive technologies to drive continuous improvement.
Assess raw materials for alternative sourcing, profit maintenance, or performance enhancement to strengthen DuBois’ competitive position.
Support production activities and the quality assurance team, including observing and training production/quality assurance personnel, assisting scale-up of new formulas, and investigating off-spec batches.
Leverage problem-solving techniques participating and/or leading to understand root cause.
Contribute and develop content for technical bulletins, technical data sheets, and training materials.
Engage with customers to observe products in operation, gather application insights, and identify opportunities for new innovations.
Provide mentoring and training to team members on formulation principles, testing methods, and R&D best practices.
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry
Experience using technical instrumentation, Microsoft Office tools, and database management systems
Excellent communication skills
Preferred Qualifications
1+ years of experience formulating chemistries/chemical blends to develop new products
Ability to travel domestically and/or internationally up to 10%
DuBois provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, religion, age, disability, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, service in the military, veteran status, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable federal, state, and/or local law and/or regulation.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Chemistry
- Experience using technical instrumentation, Microsoft Office tools, and database management systems
- Excellent communication skills
What We Do
DuBois has been serving customers since 1920. Our value added specialty cleaning and process solutions are designed to meet the needs and exceed the expectations of our customers around the world. Here are a few examples of the various markets we serve: General manufacturing Pulp and paper making Transportation cleaning Water treatment DuBois is an industry leader in using innovative and sustainable solutions for our customers. We strive to be the best in listening to and serving our customers. DuBois has over 400 sales and technical representatives across North America. Our Cincinnati, Ohio office, laboratory and production facility occupies 105,000 square feet and has over 150 employees including scientists, customer service representatives, and production associates
