As a SENIOR FORMULATOR you will organize and direct technical activities leading to the development and adaptation of new products, provide technical support to Production and Quality Assurance, provide cost and planning information, support online testing and troubleshooting, all according to PPG Procedures to increase our market share.
Perform activities related to the development and adaptation of new products, and formulation of new developments and adjustments of existing formulas, adaptation of formulas from the United States of America, with national raw material giving the same functionality and cost.
You will report to Technical Manager.
**Key Responsibilities**
- Create formulas at laboratory level and scale them to Production level.
- Work as a team with production and quality to ensure the good performance of the technologies.
- You will evaluate raw materials for manufacturing cost efficiencies.
- Identify improvements and changes to adapt formulas to the regional market.
- Prepare and ship products and samples for analysis or testing.
- Recovery of materials finished product and raw material.
- Troubleshoot in functionality in our customer's line.
- Pigment knowledge and color matching.
**Qualifications**
- Bachelor's degree in chemical engineering
- Fluent English.
- 4 + years of experience in water-based and solvent-based liquid painting techniques.
- Knowledge of color theories.
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Benefits will be discussed with you by your recruiter during the hiring process.