Description

R&D Scientist II

Location: Memphis, TN
Language: English
Travel:  Less than  10%
Seniority Level: Associate

Buckman is a privately held, global specialty chemical company with headquarters in Memphis, TN, USA, committed to safeguarding the environment, maintaining safety in the workplace, and promoting sustainable development. Buckman delivers exceptional service and innovative solutions to our customers globally in the pulp and paper, leather, and water treatment sectors to help boost productivity, reduce risk, improve product quality, and provide a measurable return on investment.  Buckman is in the middle of a digital transformation of its businesses and focused on building the capabilities and tools in support of this.

Position Summary:
The Development Scientist in Paper is a critical R&D scientist working on Buckman’s Global Growth Strategies by accelerating the development of new products and performing predictive laboratory performance testing and evaluation for pulp related chemistries. . The resource will be positioned to maintain existing projects and accelerate the development of new capabilities in BSW defoamers, digester additives, and drive the development of new digital capabilities to support current and future new products. 

This position will be application and formulation focused and will be expected to deliver new, differentiated technologies that grow Buckman's market share in pulp related markets.

Competencies Needed for Success:
• Contributes independently with limited supervision.
• Completes or leads project development projects with minimal supervision or owns key project component development.
• Provides technical coaching on focus area and project facilitation to R&D associates
• Leads advanced analytical project (e.g. Biocide registration)
• Stays attuned to own performance and makes changes when necessary.
• Understands and accepts own share of both successes and failures.
• Holds self to high standards of performance; sets challenging goals.
• Makes use of new concepts and principles when addressing problems.
• Experiments to find the best possible solution and gains insight from test cases.
• Gains the right insights promptly when faced with new situations.
• Applies independent, industrial application troubleshooting skills and provides advanced tech support
• Swiftly cuts to the core of issues and skillfully separates root causes from symptoms.
• Thinks broadly about problems and appropriately incorporates new information and concepts when generating solutions.


Minimum Requirements to Apply:

• Ph.D. in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Material Science, Applied Surfactant Science, Colloid or Physical Chemistry with 3+ years of experience in relevant industry; or M.S. degree with 7+ years of experience in relevant industry; or B.S. degree with 7+ years of experience in relevant industry
• A secondary degree in applied Pulp/Paper Science with primary degree in chemical related field would be considered.
• Experience with emulsions and direct scale-up is required.

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