Chemistry Technician

Chemistry Technician

Location: Nashua, NH area Duration: Contract (3+ Months) Hours: Mon-Fri; 8am-5pm

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Perform physical, chemical, and performance testing raw materials, intermediates, and finished products
• Evaluate new raw materials for performance, cost, availability, and sustainability
• Support manufacturing with startup trials, process improvements, and troubleshooting activities
• Support senior technical staff during customer visits and field evaluations as needed
• Become familiar with regulations and customer requirements affecting formulated products under the guidance of senior technical staff.
• Maintain detailed laboratory notebooks documenting objectives, observations, results, and conclusions
• Compound laboratory batches ranging from 1-liter samples to 5-gallon pilot-scale batches
• Scale formulations from laboratory development through pilot and production trials
• Maintain laboratory equipment, testing instruments, and chemical inventories

Requirements:

• BS Degree in Chemistry, Chem Eng., Polymer Science, Materials science or related technical field.
• Minimum 3 months experience working in a lab setting. Ideally in an industrial lab, but open to Pharmaceutical as well. (Co-Ops/Internships do count towards the experience)
• Basic understanding, experience and comfortable working in a lab setting.
• Experience working with 1 or more lab testing and analytical instruments (i.e. pH meters, DSC, Infra-Red Spectrometry, GC, Titration equipment, Viscometers etc.)
• Experience formulating, mixing and compounding chemical products
• Experience using electronic notebooks, formulation databases and/or R&D software platforms
• Willing to learn, trustworthy and personable.
• Proficiency in Math

Ref: #558-Scientific