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The Sherwin-Williams Company R&D Engineer Associate in Cleveland, Ohio

This is a Process Engineer position. Excellent growth opportunity for an individual interested in leading projects and/or project teams as a member of the Commercialization Engineering Team. Position is accountable for contributing to and/or leading Process Improvement, Maintenance of Business, New Product Development, 6-sigma, and Quality Investigation projects. Job duties include contact with other employees and access confidential and proprietary information and/or other items of value, and such access may be supervised or unsupervised. The Company therefore has determined that a review of criminal history is necessary to protect the business and its operations and reputation and is necessary to protect the safety of the Company's staff, employees, and business relationships. Responsible for the following under moderate supervision: 1. Project Management * Ensures all assigned projects are completed in accordance with the project requests, under moderate supervision. * May lead Continuous Improvement projects or portions of a technically challenging project, with moderate supervision. * Develops project plans including phases, timelines, project updates and deliverables. * Partner with team members to execute key project deliverables. * Lead studies to ensure technology robustness for downstream development and formula robustness for production. * Frequent and direct interaction with Manufacturing, Quality, PTS, Process Systems, Technical Labs, and various support groups. 2. Technical and Professional Knowledge * Identification/assessment of technologies, paint making and testing, data analysis and application of paint formulation/knowledge to meet performance requirements. * Has broad awareness of group business knowledge and understands impact of work decisions * Establishes and executes experiments using appropriate experimental design parameters. * Analyzes data, makes decisions based upon data, demonstrates critical thinking and recognizes anomalies. * Performs background searches on research concerns, evaluations, and pitfalls to generate solutions * Provide engineering support (DOE designs, failure mode studies, data analysis, formulation/processing recommendations, and test batch) throughout product development to ensure new product launch success. * Identify continuous improvement opportunities, validates and implements change. 3. Safety and Quality * Ensure Safety, Housekeeping, and ISO practices are followed. * Maintains all required certifications and follows quality standards. * Actively seeks to reduce risk through corrective action of unsafe practices. * Documents and maintains an up-to-date electronic lab notebook and project folder per/maintains ISO standards. 4. Communication * Clear and concise written documentation and verbal presentation of information and the ability to adapt to various audiences. * Accurate documentation of lab results and technical information. * Communicates/interfaces with other departments, develops relationships & influences others. * Communicates work progress, status, completion, issues and suggests solutions. BASIC QUALIFICATION: * Must be legally authorized to work in the country for which you are applying for employment (without now or in the future needing sponsorship for employment work visa and/or permanent residence status). FORMAL EDUCATION: Required: * BS/BA in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics field Preferred: * BS/BA in Chemical Engineering KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE: Required: * Basic math skills * Problem-solving and decision-making abilities * Strong communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills * Basic knowledge of statistics and data analysis * Strong attention to detail Preferred: * Experience in coatings or processing related field experience * Project

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