Stability Chemist – R&D
About The Position
We're an established personal care manufacturer with more than 30 years in business. We make skincare, cosmetic, household, and specialty products for well-known national brands and for our own product lines. We've roughly doubled in size over the past four years and have new investment behind our growth. The culture is family-oriented, leadership is accessible, and growth opportunities keep opening up as we expand. You'll join our R&D team, reporting to the R&D Director. You'll develop and refine formulations for a wide range of personal care and consumer products, and you'll run the stability program that sets shelf life for finished goods. This is a development role: we want to hire a strong chemist and grow them into a senior formulator.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in chemistry or a related science
- 1+ years of hands-on formulation or R&D lab experience in personal care, cosmetics, OTC, or consumer products
- Working knowledge of emulsions, surfactants, and preservative systems
- Stability testing experience, and comfort with pH meters, viscometers, homogenizers, and analytical balances
- Strong Excel skills and clean documentation habits
- Curiosity, initiative, and a desire to grow into senior formulation work
Responsibilities
- Develop, adjust, and optimize formulations for skincare, cosmetic, household, and specialty products
- Make lab-scale batches, and support scale-up and troubleshooting with production
- Run accelerated and real-time stability studies to set shelf life
- Test samples for appearance, pH, viscosity, specific gravity, weight loss, assay, and preservative efficacy (PET)
- Coordinate outside lab testing, such as HRIPT, kill testing, and assay
- Work with Sales and Project Management on customer projects and out-of-spec results
- Keep accurate formulation records, stability reports, and weekly activity reports
- Maintain a clean, safe lab that follows all safety rules
Benefits
- A clear development path into senior formulator roles
- Hands-on work across a wide product range for recognizable brands
- Company-wide events, including a summer employee appreciation day and a holiday party, plus an employee-run committee that plans activities all year
- Regular town halls and open Q&A sessions with leadership
- A stable, growing company with strong investment behind it
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
