02/04/2021
Founded in the early 1900's our client is a successful family business focussed on creating customized finishing solutions for textile products, refining and applying high performance technologies to meet and exceed their customer's needs. Based in Western North Carolina, they offer the broadest portfolio of proprietary and branded finishing options in the industry. Innovators in Textile Finishing they are dedicated to the enhancement of woven and nonwoven fabrics through specialty chemical applications and mechanical finishing techniques.
We have been tasked with sourcing an experienced Senior Materials Scientist with advanced knowledge of Material Science and Chemistry to design finishing products and processes and deliver innovative solutions that meet the evolving needs of our client's customers.
In this exciting new role, you have the opportunity to influence the future of the company. Working with limited supervision, you will lead a small team including junior chemists and compounders to directly contribute to the development of our clients business. Your main remit is to design, produce, test and/or validate products from prototype to production. You will interact with internal and external contacts in order to facilitate the completion of products to customer specifications.
An Innovator interested in deepening your experience and growing your career with an industry leader, your key responsibilities will include:
Ensuring manufacturability of coatings and adhesion to various different coating processes or coating additives as required.
Rapid decision-making during coating or coating formulation changes to meet requirements for design for manufacturability, quality and cost.
Strong focus on laboratory work developing technical ideas through to production.
You have
Masters in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Material Science, Textile Engineering or some aligned material-based field (minimum requirement)
A minimum 5 years in a supervisory role.
Strong communication and leadership skills
Coating experience, including Formulating, Manufacturing and Applications Development.
You will be rewarded with a competitive salary and benefits to include :
Medical/dental/vision insurance through Cigna - 3 selections to choose from
401K
Mutual of Omaha life insurance 2x salary
Potential for profit sharing
Relocation compensation