Chemicals

Engineering

Location:  Cambridge, MA

The Ideal Candidate:

7+ tp 10 years of experience

Minimum Education – Bachelor’s Degree

Willingness to Travel – Occasionally

Working in theMicrocapsule Development Team, the engineer is expected to fulfill the following requirements:

Responsibilities:

- Design, develop, and optimize chemical processes for the commercial production of our surface treated pigments, microcapsules, dispersions, and adhesives
- Design, evaluate, source, install, and qualify new process equipment for the scale up of lab discovered materials and processes
- Deliver capable and reliable processes to manufacturing team within capacity, budget, and timeline constraints
- Lead efforts to qualify chemical processes of external suppliers, as necessary
- Support existing production operations, as needed

Qualifications:

- BS or MS in Chemical Engineering
- 7 – 10 years of relevant industrial development experience
- Experience scaling up reactor design, especially where mixing, temperature control, and material addition are critical
- Hands-on, working knowledge of PLC batch control systems
- Knowledge of solvent and/or polyurethane based polymerizations is desirable
- Knowledge of pigment dispersion mixing, milling, filtering techniques is desirable
- Working knowledge of Six Sigma techniques, including FMEA, experimental design, and statistical analysis
- Ability to function effectively as a member of cross-functional, cross-disciplinary teams, and inter-corporate teams
- Demonstrated ability to provide innovative solutions to complex problems
- Hands-on attitude and desire to work a lab/pilot plant environment
- Effective oral and written communication skills