Technical Service & Development Scientist | Laminating Adhesives & Coatings

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Position:Technical Service & Development Scientist | Laminating Adhesives & Coatings

Primary locationFreeport (TX, USA), Texas, United States of America

Schedule:Full time

Date Posted:04/24/2024

Job Number:R2050945

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The NA Technical Service and Development (TS&D) group has an exciting opportunity for a Packaging & Specialty PlasticsAssociate TS&D ScientistORTS&D Scientistlocated inFreeport, TX. The TS&D group supports over 5 Billion lb/yr and 150+ customers. This position is within theLaminating Adhesives and Coatings segment. Dow's Laminating Adhesives business has a wide portfolio of adhesives and coatings for the flexible packaging and industrial lamination markets. This includes products in water-based, solventless, and solvent-based laminating adhesives as well as heat seal coatings for a wide range of packaging applications.

Associate TS&D Scientists provide the critical link between customers and Dow’s technical expertise for troubleshooting, supporting processing of existing products at customers, defining new product applications, and developing new products to meet customers’ needs.

Primary Responsibilities: 

• Provides technical customer service in cooperation with Sales based on identified business needs and in agreement between Sales and TS&D Leadership.

• Ensures product quality and performance standards meet customers’ needs through continuous evaluation of product.  Handles customers’ specification requests, and accesses QA/QC data and information.

• Covers immediate action/troubleshooting at customers in close cooperation with Sales, research and manufacturing activities, including sampling, identifying problem source (at customers or at Dow) and reporting.

• Leads, participates in, and follows application and product development activities. Leads implementation at core customers in cooperation with other TS&D colleagues and in alignment with the business strategy.

• Tracks competitive technology and identifies new products/opportunities in the market. Initiates sampling and performance benchmarking to ensure broad technical knowledge of competition, including competitive literature.

   

In this role, the employee must work closely with customers to ensure existing products are running smoothly and to position new products and technologies.  This includes possessing the interpersonal skills and organizational intuition to successfully interface at multiple levels and functions within the customer’s organization.  This also includes travel to production trials and business meetings in partnership with a sales account executive.  Finally, this also requires excellent communication with stakeholders in sales and the research functions.

In addition to customer interactions, the employee will work on multiple product development projects including elements of product design and composition.  The results of these projects will then be documented in reports, communicated to internal business teams and at professional conferences in presentations, inventions will documented and patented, and new products will be scaled up in conjunction with research and manufacturing to be launched commercially.

• Domestic Travel 10 - 30%

• Leveraged, fast-paced, business-focused environment for the market leader in plastics.

   

Critical Success Factors:

• Is able to translate product attributes for Sales

• Is able to extract information from the customer and effectively network within the Dow organization to find solutions

• Can create and maintain relevant customer and industry networks for Dow's benefit

• Easily adapts to changing needs

• Stays current with Dow technology and industry/market trends developments

• Develops experiences and technical expertise to solve problems

• Provides product and application expertise and ongoing technical support to existing customers

• Closely cooperates with the R&D function in the development and technical qualification of products/applications and leads the introduction of new products at targeted accounts.

   

Required Qualifications:

• A minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Polymer Science, Process and Fabrication or related field is required.

• A minimum of 3 years of relevant industry experience including previous customer interaction experience with a broad knowledge of application testing fundamentals

• Domestic travel within this role is expected approximately 10-30% of the time.

• A minimum requirement for this U.S. based position is the ability to work legally in the United States. No visa sponsorship/support is available for this position, including for any type of U.S. permanent residency (green card) process.

Note: Domestic relocation assistance is available for this role and may be provided based on eligibility.

Benefits – What Dow offers you

We invest in you.

Dow invests in total rewards programs to help you manage all aspects of you: your pay, your health, your life, your future, and your career.  You bring your background, talent and perspective to work every day. Dow rewards that commitment by investing in your total wellbeing.

Here are just a few highlights of what you would be offered as a Dow employee:

• Equitable and market-competitive base pay and bonus opportunity across our global markets, along with locally relevant incentives.

• Benefits and programs to support your physical, mental and emotional well-being, to help you get the care you need...when you need it.

• Competitive retirement program that may include company-provided benefits, savings opportunities, financial planning and educational resources to help you achieve your long term financial-goals.

• Become a Dow shareholder through various employee stock programs.

• Opportunities to learn and grow through training and mentoring, work experiences, community involvement and team building.

• Workplace culture empowering role-based flexibility to maximize personal productivity and balance personal needs.

• Global Paid Time Off (PTO) policies:

• Paid time off for new parents (birthing and non-birthing, including adoptive and foster parents).

• ​Paid time off to care for family members who are sick or injured.

• Paid time off to support volunteering and Employee Resource Group’s (ERG) participation.

Join our team, we can make a difference together.

About Dow

Dow (NYSE: DOW) is one of the world’s leading materials science companies, serving customers in high-growth markets such as packaging, infrastructure, mobility and consumer applications. Our global breadth, asset integration and scale, focused innovation, leading business positions and commitment to sustainability enable us to achieve profitable growth and help deliver a sustainable future. We operate manufacturing sites in 31 countries and employ approximately 35,900 people. Dow delivered sales of approximately $45 billion in 2023. References to Dow or the Company mean Dow Inc. and its subsidiaries. ​​​​Learn more about us and our ambition to be the most innovative, customer-centric, inclusive and sustainable materials science company in the world by visitingwww.dow.com.

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