Chemist - Greif Packaging LLC

Greif offers a great working environment and the opportunity to make an immediate impact at a company where your ideas are always welcome.

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ROLE OVERVIEW:

Adhesive R&D & Production Chemist (III) supporting Greif’s adhesive operations and its various customers in North America by invention, innovation, safety, profitability, customer service excellence and quality.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop chemistry and engineering solutions for Greif’s Cincinnati Adhesives plant and its other divisions, working directly with various R&D, OPEX and production teams.
• As an accomplished professional chemist, this candidate is considered a general scientific officer for Greif, contributing expertise to Greif’s global network.
• Remain work steady. Working beyond at-hand projects and exercising your creativity to pursue company success in team projects and your own inventions.
• Guide engineering teams to build/implement new mixing systems for R&D small batching, scale-up and production batching for water based adhesives and coatings.
• Designing and building/implementing solvent based coatings systems.
• Utilizing business software: Coupa, LN SBP and XM Management.  
• Traveling independently and working on site with other adhesive plants, customers and sister plants within North America, as needed.    
• Remain adaptable and professional in a high-paced manufacturing environment.
• Employ proper formulation methods for the development of water-based paper adhesives. Chemistry is primarily PVAc, PVOH, VAE, Dextrin/Starches, PSAs
• Maintain and update R&D equipment as needed and establish and maintain SOPs
• Organizing and maintaining cleanliness in lab and production areas, samples, and stations.
• Prepare and share reports with various business partners and elite management, internally and in the trade market.
• Coordinate agencies and participate in external and internal quality audits.Drive regular communication with your team to create organizational awareness and transparency through good chemistry practice.
• Deliver result-driven bi-weekly reports and communicate with customers on testing and troubleshooting.
• Work directly with chemical vendors, machine shops and engineering teams.
• Travel as needed, up to approx. 50% for onsite trials and customer requests.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Chemical Engineering, Engineering or Chemistry. A combination of education, laboratory, and manufacturing experience will be considered in some cases.
• Minimum 10 years of related experience in manufacturing sciences of adhesives.

Knowledge and Skills

• Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Teams. Emphasis on Excel knowledge)
• High aptitude in MS Excel
• Keep Safety and Safe Practices as your primary goal
• Experience in mixing vessels and industrial compounding.
• Experience with packaging adhesive formulation, more specifically water based emulsions and solutions
• Experience with industrial processing of liquid adhesives
• Emulsion Polymerization is a plus
• Independence
• Problem Solving/ Judgment
• Superb Oral/Written Communication Skills
• Analysis skills
• Organization & Planning
• Customer Focus
• Team Player
• Integrity
• Ability to stand for several hour intervals
• Ability to converse and read customers
• Ability to establish a professional relationship with colleagues at all levels

At Greif, your work has purpose, colleagues care about your well-being, and you have the opportunity to grow and thrive. Service and leadership are the core of everything we do. Our global presence provides us a platform to do good in the world.

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We offer a competitive salary, excellent benefits and opportunity for growth. Greif, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. We will not discriminate against any applicant or employee on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, race, gender, religion, age, national origin, color, disability, or veteran status. EOE/Minority/Female/Disabled/Veteran. For more information read Greif’s Equal Opportunity Policy.