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Contract Type:Regular Who we are LANXESS is a leading specialty chemicals company with sales of EUR 6.7 billion in 2023. The company currently has about 12,800 employees in 32 countries. Our core business is the development, manufacturing and marketing of chemical intermediates, additives and consumer protection products.LANXESS is listed in the leading sustainability indices Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI World and Europe) and FTSE4Good.
Job Highlights
The Applications Chemist will collaborate with technical and commercial teams to create new product offerings, formulations, and testing methodologies for a wide range of applications in our expanding list of markets, including personal care, home, industrial, institutional, agriculture, fragrance, flavor, and more. This includes formulating solutions and new products in the laboratory, analyzing results, and documenting project findings for use by our business teams and customers. Key responsibilities include:
- Collaborate with the technical and commercial teams to create new product offerings and formulation solutions for a wide range of applications in our expanding list of markets such as personal care, HI&I, agriculture, fragrance and more. Design experiments to define and demonstrate our products effectiveness in those formulations in the lab. Evaluate, analyze, and document results in reports and presentations as needed.
- Work with the sales team to understand the customer's needs and opportunities, then develop solutions within our product lines. Includes meetings, travel, presentations, troubleshooting, or commercial support of our products and formulations. Participate and lead technical and formulation discussions in customer meetings. Involvement with various trade organizations, attending meetings, conferences, and participating on Committees as needed.
- Laboratory experiment design, synthesis, purification, analysis, literature research, and optimization studies to develop new products or processes to be implemented into our facilities.
- Evaluate existing plant processes for potential improvements and modifications. Assist plant production team with identifying and troubleshooting issues as they come up.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Chemistry or related field.
- 3+ years of relevant work experience.
- Work Safely in a laboratory setting alongside existing team.
- Product formulation and preservation experience; preferably in personal care, fragrance, or homecare. Experience with microbiology is a plus.
- Demonstrated ability to present data in written or verbally to fellow R&D team, the commercial teams or directly to the Customer in a technical service role.
- Ability to design experiments and execute them safely in the laboratory including various formulations, synthesis, reactions, and distillations, including analysis and evaluation methods.
What we offer you
- Compensation: We offer competitive compensation packages, inclusive of a global bonus program and an individual performance bonus program.In accordance with Washington state requirements, the minimum pay for this position is $69,600 per year. Actual compensation will vary depending on the qualifications and experience of the candidate.
- Comprehensive Benefits: We provide a variety of benefits to support your financial security, health and wellbeing. These benefits include:
- Health care - Medical, Dental, Vision
- Health Spending Account (HSA) with High Deductible PPO XD
- Employee Life Insurance - Basic, Supplemental Life and AD&D
- Dependent Life Insurance and AD&D
- Disability Coverage - Short-Term and Long-Term
- Flexible Spending Accounts - Health Care and Dependent Care
- NortonLifeLock device security, online privacy, and identity theft protection
- Aflac Benefits
- Legal Assistance Program
- Retirement Benefits - Defined Contribution 401(k) Plan with Employer Retirement Contribution and Employer Match - Work-Life, Time Off & Flexibility: We support you in maintaining a balance between working hours and personal life. With our global "Xwork" program, we offer flexible working arrangements in all countries in which we operate. Washington employees who are not covered by a collective bargaining agreement accrue a minimum of 80 hours of vacation per year; have 10 paid holidays; and accrue 64 hours of Sick/Personal time per year. Employees who are covered by a collective bargaining agreement earn time off in accordance with the provisions of the agreement.
- Training & Development: We are committed to your professional and personal development and encourage you in the ongoing pursuit of education, training and knowledge through both formal and informal learning.
- Diversity:LANXESS is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, age, social class, physical ability or attributes, religion, national origin, veteran status and political beliefs.
LANXESS has a value-based performance culture. We are seeking a range of human interests, backgrounds, and experiences that can be engaged to achieve respect, ownership, trust, professionalism, integrity and healing across all sectors. We are looking to find diverse and talented people to join our team. Studies have shown that some individuals are less likely to apply if they do not meet 100% of the criteria. We are looking to equalize the gap! If you are excited about this role but your past experiences do not align perfectly with every qualification, we encourage you to apply. We will look to assess your talent against our competencies, values and requirements to get the best organizational fit. You might be the right candidate for this or other roles we have available! Join the LANXESS team!
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Lanxess Corporation
life insurance, paid holidays, 401(k)
Mar 04, 2025