Job Description
Job DescriptionJob Title: Chemistry Technician Location: Nashua, NH area Duration: Contract (3+ Months) Hours: Mon-Fri; 8am-5pm Duties/Responsibilities:
- Perform physical, chemical, and performance testing raw materials, intermediates, and finished products
- Evaluate new raw materials for performance, cost, availability, and sustainability
- Support manufacturing with startup trials, process improvements, and troubleshooting activities
- Support senior technical staff during customer visits and field evaluations as needed
- Become familiar with regulations and customer requirements affecting formulated products under the guidance of senior technical staff.
- Maintain detailed laboratory notebooks documenting objectives, observations, results, and conclusions
- Compound laboratory batches ranging from 1-liter samples to 5-gallon pilot-scale batches
- Scale formulations from laboratory development through pilot and production trials
- Maintain laboratory equipment, testing instruments, and chemical inventories
Requirements:
- BS Degree in Chemistry, Chem Eng., Polymer Science, Materials science or related technical field.
- Minimum 3 months experience working in a lab setting. Ideally in an industrial lab, but open to Pharmaceutical as well. (Co-Ops/Internships do count towards the experience)
- Basic understanding, experience and comfortable working in a lab setting.
- Experience working with 1 or more lab testing and analytical instruments (i.e. pH meters, DSC, Infra-Red Spectrometry, GC, Titration equipment, Viscometers etc.)
- Experience formulating, mixing and compounding chemical products
- Experience using electronic notebooks, formulation databases and/or R&D software platforms
- Willing to learn, trustworthy and personable.
- Proficiency in Math
Ref: #558-Scientific