Project Process Engineer

Requirements:

B.S. Chemical Engineering or Chemistry; 3-20 years out of corn starch/wheat starch (ideally), paper, paint coatings, batch specialty chemicals, foods, resins, adhesives. This person must have experience with taking customers ideas and formulating a bench scale product which will involve some reaction chemistry and mechanical grinding and milling to get the proper particle size. Pluses include: scale-up experience (bench to full-scale), customer support experience, analytical testing, paper formulating or coatings experience and paper production experience. The key for this job is someone who is hands on, has an out-going personality and has well-developed people skills.

Duties:

This job will be 100% product development. In Cedar Rapids, new hire will do formulation which involves adding proper amounts of acids and solvents to corn, wheat or rice. This person will also assist in the scale-up, from bench to pilot to full-scale, of new products. This person will also look at “blue-sky” development of new products that are independent of customer desires/needs. Travel for this position will be 30% and travel will involve going to customer sites to assist customers, execute trial runs of new products, and do troubleshooting.  Great long term position with a well established company and good future potential for the well rounded product development chemist.

 

If you are interested in making this a career move, apply to Rick O'Malley at Twin Oaks Technical by sending your resume to rick@twinoaksjobs.com .

Great benefits and salary are available for the right candidate.

 

Candidate must be a U.S Citizen or authorized to work permanently in the United States.