R&D Technician
About The Position
Work Your Magic with us! Start your next chapter and join EMD Electronics. Ready to explore, break barriers, and discover more? We know you’ve got big plans – so do we! Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people’s lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix of people, customers, patients, and planet. That's why we are always looking for curious minds that see themselves imagining the unimaginable with us. Everything we do in EMD Electronics is to help us deliver on our purpose of being the company behind the companies, advancing digital living. We are dedicated to being the trusted supplier of high-tech materials, services and specialty chemicals for the electronics, automotive and cosmetics industries. We foster a global collaborative organization made up of individuals who have the passion to win, obsess about the customer, are relentlessly curious and act with urgency. Together, we push the boundaries of science to make more possible for our customers. This role does not offer sponsorship for work authorization. External applicants must be eligible to work in the US.
Requirements
- High School Diploma or GED
- External applicants must be eligible to work in the US.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with laboratory/pilot plant operations.
- Experience with handling hazardous chemicals (toxic, reactive, pyrophoric, corrosive, oxidizer)
- Mechanical skills relevant to the assembly, installation and maintenance of glass and metal chemical reactor systems.
- Familiarity with analytical instruments.
- Post secondary education, particularly chemistry or in a technical field.
- Strong communication skills.
Responsibilities
- Perform the activities necessary to support process development efforts in a laboratory and pilot plant environment.
- Focus mainly on new product synthesis of Organo-Silane or Organo-Metallic compounds which will include construction of experimental equipment and routine analytical analysis of process and product samples.
- Manufacturing compounds in a laboratory or pilot plant setting.
- Operation of pilot scale chemical reactors, filtration equipment, heater/chillers, gloveboxes and inert gas/liquid handling manifolds as well as packaging solids, liquids and gases.
- Responsible for safety, environmental protection, productivity, quality, and Continuous Improvement initiatives.
- Resolve of daily operating issues.
- Diagnose malfunctions.
- Perform preventive and operating maintenance.
- Record and report all deviations from normal operating conditions.
- Maintain up-to-date notebooks.
- Maintain a safe work environment.
- Follow all EMD Electronics corporate standards for laboratory and pilot plant EH&S.
Benefits
- health insurance
- paid time off (PTO)
- retirement contributions
- other perquisites
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
High school or GED
