Ecolab is seeking a **Chemist **to execute technical laboratory activities in support of technical platform development.
**What's in it For You**:
- The opportunity to take on some of the world's most meaningful challenges, helping customers achieve clean water, safe food, abundant energy and healthy environments
- The ability to make an impact and shape your career with a company that is passionate about growth
- The support of an organization that believes it is vital to include and engage diverse people, perspectives and ideas to achieve our best
**What You Will Do**:
- Conducts experiments to improve upon or to duplicate various materials and substances
- Engages in research to develop new methods of processing or production
- Examines potential new uses for technical platforms
- Assignments involve data collection, technical analysis, summarizing findings in written technical reports and at key project check points and recommendations for proceeding to project conclusions
- Contributes to the development of differentiated technology, products, processes, or systems
- Provides professional divisional support
- Maintain accurate lab notebook records and file reports for experimental work.
- Assignments may require the development and selection of appropriate methods, tests and procedures.
- Ensure that proprietary project innovations are protected with proper legal instruments (e.g. patents).
**Basic Qualifications**:
- Bachelor's degree in Chemistry, Biology or Biochemistry
- 2 years of Chemistry experience
- Sponsorship is not offered for this role
**Preferred Qualifications**:
- Demonstrated success in working on complex, multi-function project teams
- Excellent people and team building skills, interacting with a wide range of individuals and grade levels.
- Must have demonstrated initiative and ability to work independently and handle multiple tasks
**Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion**
Ecolab is committed to fair and equal treatment of associates and applicants and furthering the principles of Equal Opportunity to Employment. Our goal is to fully utilize minority, female, and disabled individuals at all levels of the workforce. We will recruit, hire, promote, transfer and provide opportunities for advancement based on individual qualifications and job performance. In all matters affecting employment, compensation, benefits, working conditions, and opportunities for advancement, Ecolab will not discriminate against any associate or applicant for employment because of race, religion, color, creed, national origin, citizenship status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expressions, genetic information, marital status, age, or disability.