Evonik
Epoxy Coatings Application Chemist
Allentown, PA
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 11 hours ago
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About the role
- Look ahead with us and help shape innovative solutions to make our world more sustainable and life healthier, more vibrant and more comfortable.
- At Evonik, you have the chance to explore, thrive, and grow alongside 33,000 colleagues.
- This role requires someone who is curious, motivated, collaborative, practical, and comfortable working across technical and commercial teams.
Responsibilities
- Lead product development and technical service work for epoxy coatings applications, with a focus on epoxy curing agents and related formulation work.
- Partner with customer technical teams to understand coating performance needs and solve application challenges.
- Support customer visits by providing technical data, product presentations, application guidance, and troubleshooting support.
- Support scale-up activity by working with process development, pilot plant, analytical, and other technical teams.
- Provide technical direction to lab technician support while promoting strong lab safety, product stewardship, and responsible product development practices.
- Bring your fresh perspective, develop your strengths, break out your mold, and find a career that fits your dreams with us.
- The Epoxy Coatings Application Chemist leads application development and technical service for epoxy coating solutions within Evonik's Epoxy Curing Agents business.
- The work supports demanding industrial applications, including protective, marine, transportation, railcar, aerospace, and heavy machinery coatings.
- This position works hands-on in the lab, partners directly with customers, and helps guide product development projects through formulation, testing, scale-up, and commercialization.
Requirements
- Preferably 10 years of experience in epoxy coatings application technology, with experience in project leadership, product development, product testing, formulation support, and customer technical service.
- Hands-on experience with epoxy coatings, epoxy curing agents, epoxy hardeners, polyamides, amidoamines, or related technologies and a proven track record of championing new ideas and technologies in this space.
- Experience running or interpreting coating performance testing such as adhesion, chemical resistance, corrosion resistance, salt spray, humidity, hardness, flexibility, pot life, gel time, or cure speed.
Nice to have
- Experience with patents, trade secrets, technical publications, competitive analysis, or new product commercialization is a plus.
Compensation
- Please address your application to the Talent Acquisition Manager, stating your earliest possible starting date and your salary expectations.
Benefits
- Among attractive career paths and high-quality development programs, we not only offer performance-based remuneration and occupational health benefits but also hybrid and flexible working environments with #SmartWork.
Company info
- https://careers.evonik.com/en/about/meet-the-team/
- The strongest candidates will have experience developing or supporting epoxy coating systems, working directly with customers on technical challenges, and helping move products from the lab into real-world application.
- Strong candidates will be able to connect coating performance, customer needs, market fit, and business value.
- Additional details
- Wenda Cenexant [C]
- Evonik Corporation
Equal opportunity
- The Evonik Group adopts an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) approach.
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