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Sr. Analytical Polymer Chemist

If you LOVE analytical work and a fast-paced exciting environment, this role could be for you!! Located west of Downtown Chicago, you’d work in a team using your expertise in Chromatography including GPC, Thermal Analysis, and some Spectroscopy techniques to deliver solutions to the Innovation, R&D and Material Sciences teams.  Cutting edge GREEN Technology!

Key Responsibilities:

• Apply advanced chromatographic and detection techniques including GC-MS, LC-MS, GPC, and others to separate, identify, and quantify complex chemical mixtures and polymeric materials. Develop and refine methodologies to improve accuracy and analytical efficiency.
• Utilize complementary techniques such as FTIR, UV-Vis, NMR, Raman, TGA, DSC, DMA, and DHR to investigate structural, thermal, mechanical, and rheological properties of polymers and other materials.
• Perform qualitative and quantitative testing of chemicals, raw materials, and products using internal resources and external partners. Utilize statistical methods to make data driven decisions.
• Provide clear analysis, draw meaningful conclusions, provide recommendations, and author detailed reports with key findings and actionable insights.
• Design, validate, document, and optimize current and new characterization methods for applications in raw material analysis, technology and product development, and quality assurance.
• Provide technical support across the organization to determine the root causes of techniques or conduct experiments.
• Provide training and guidance on equipment usage, data analysis, and method development.
• Oversee the maintenance and troubleshooting of analytical instrumentation.

**If you’d like to hear more about this opportunity and others we are currently working on, please contact Stephanie Kemp at skemp@cps4jobs.com.

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Salary

$130,000 - $140,000 + Bonus

Benefits

All major Medical and Dental Insurances, 401K, Profit Sharing, 3 weeks PTO, and more!

Qualifications:

• A PhD (preferred) or MS degree in Analytical Chemistry, Materials Science, Polymer Science, or a related discipline.
• Demonstrated subject matter expertise in Chromatography and separations, molecule identification and quantification. Experience with structural, thermal, and/or mechanical material characterization is preferred.
• Demonstrated computational skills including familiarity with Python, R, JMP, or other languages and statistical tools is strongly preferred.

**If you’d like to hear more about this opportunity and others we are currently working on, please contact Stephanie Kemp at skemp@cps4jobs.com.

JO:  154.25SK
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