Staff Scientist

Nalco Water, an Ecolab Company, is seeking a Staff Scientist to join the Primary Metals RD&E team in Naperville, Illinois. As a Staff Scientist, you will be responsible for leading the creation of innovation platforms in addition to collaborating with scientists and engineers to develop innovative solutions for our clients' challenges in the steel, copper and aluminum industries.

As an innovation partner, Nalco Water empowers our customers to optimize water usage, minimize energy consumption and reduce greenhouse gas emissions - fostering a more sustainable future for the primary metals industry. This is your opportunity to join a large growing company focused on developing solutions that advance food safety, maintain clean and safe environments, optimize water and energy use.

What you will do:

• Engage with customers, sales engineers, and marketing functions to translate industry challenges into research platforms

• Develop innovative chemistries and digital tools for the primary metals industry, including steel, copper and aluminum

• Collaborate with other researchers and field technical consultants to deploy new innovations in field applications

• Lead projects from ideation and prospecting through final validation and commercialization in collaboration with functions across the organization, including marketing, sales and supply chain.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Education

  • A BS Degree in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science or a related technical discipline and 8 years of Industrial Research & Development experience; or

  • An MS Degree in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, or a related technical discipline and 5 years of Industrial Research & Development experience; or

  • A PhD Degree in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, or a related technical discipline and 3 years of Industrial Research & Development experience

• Experience developing innovative chemical and/or digital technologies for industrial applications

• Ability to travel (domestic and international) up to 20%

• Immigration Sponsorship not available for this role

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience developing innovative chemical technologies for the iron, steel, aluminum or copper industries.

• Experience in simulating industrial processes in the laboratory or through computer modeling.

• Experience leading research projects that leverage an understanding of chemical structure and functional relationships to develop new chemical technologies.

• Experience working independently as well as part of a multi-disciplinary team of researchers

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to design experiments and interpret complex data sets using basic statistics concepts.

• Strong written and oral communication skills.

• Demonstrated experience with public speaking and leading meetings with internal and external customers.

The base salary range for this position is $104,700.00 - $157,100.00. This position is eligible for annual bonus pay based on performance, per plan terms. Many factors are taken into consideration when determining compensation, such as experience, education, training, geography, etc. We comply with all minimum wage and overtime laws.

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