Scientist - General Metal Finishing

A Day in Your Life at MKS:

As a Scientist at MKS MSD you will partner with GMF R&D to support in product development and associated activities. In this role, you will report to the functional team manager in GMF R&D. You will carry out different approaches and methodologies to conduct different R&D activities related to product development, testing, qualification, troubleshooting, and process optimization under the technical guidance. You will be working closely with colleagues from your own team, team manager, R&D manager, and other cross-functional departments local and global. An open and clear communication with the team members and R&D manager is expected. You are expected to come up with your own ideas and approaches to execute the tasks and duties successfully. When required, you will also act as a support to customer through consultation, trouble shooting, process optimization, site visits and on-site troubleshooting, maintaining the confidentiality and compliance of the department and the company.

You Will Make an Impact By:

• Candidate is expected to work in the laboratory to carry out “on the bench” experiments and in pilot line to demonstrate feasibility and new products development.
• Creation Design of experiments (DOE) and independent planning of Project assigned with project management frameworks.
• Perform and execute assigned tasks in a timely and qualitative manner.
• Develop and modify product formulations as per the business requirement while reading, using appropriate literature / patent / competition / supplier searches/ market research related to the projects
• Working and collaborating with other team members in laboratory environment.
• Bringing innovation mindset and own ideas and creative strategies to make product and processes efficient.
• Shall interact with cross functional team members local and global.
• Open to new ideas, innovation and creativity would be demanded for effective and reliable processes development - Encourage self & team to promote R&D developments, research orientation, paper & literature study and writing.
• Support to project and teams with acceptable technical inputs in their projects & Literature search for new R&D projects. May write technical papers and patents.
• Exploring & Identification of disruptive technologies, new opportunities, read and up to date with market and embrace research perspective
• Transparent and regular effective communication of task completion progress to stakeholders.
• Self-motivated and self-initiated actions to maintain the work culture and task completion.
• Maintenance of 5S and safety as per the MKS MSD and departmental guidelines.
• Active participation in team building.
• Maintaining the confidentiality of the projects and other Departmental information.
• Interaction with the customer to troubleshoot, process optimization, and site visit/conducting trials at the customer site (if required)
  
  

Skills You Bring:

Skills

Technical Skills -

• 1-3 yrs. corporate experience in industries like chemical/ electrochemical/ polymer/ physical/ organic/ inorganic & Surface treatment.
• Education background of PhD in Chemistry/ Electrochemistry / Polymer Chemistry / Physical Chemistry / Organic Chemistry
• Six sigma (Green belt onwards) / Project management certifications would be an added advantage
• Strong proficiency in software and statistical applications like Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint/JMP/Minitab etc.
• Experience in e-notebooks/ELN would be an added advantage
• Data driven mindset & Experience in statistics and data interpretation & representation – Gather, Visualize, Interpret, Conclude
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and within team with a strong focus on delivering results and identifying alternative solutions when challenges arise
  
  

Mandatory Skills:

• Experience in working in chemical laboratories, developing formulations & products, and qualifications.
• Basic understanding on solvents, surfactants, additives, reaction mechanisms, stoichiometry, electrochemistry – key components, their reaction mechanism, molecular interactions.
• In depth knowledge of surfactants, polymers, organic and inorganic molecules
• Tuning structure property relationships of organic and inorganic molecules
• Synthetic knowledge of organic and inorganic molecules
• Experience on detergency, colloidal chemistry is a plus.
  
  

Soft skills:

• Ability to analyze data and provide logical conclusions, document in the form of research report, present work in the relevant forums to team members/scientific audience.
• Strong oral and written communication, collaboration and team player skills
• Quick learner, Agile, proactive; would have passion for innovation to create new products and add value in R&D
• Strong critical and analytical skills to ensure all aspects of projects are clearly understood, well documented and conclusive for the exit gate reporting.
• Creative, structured, methodical, and time bound workstyle.
• Self-motivated, out of the box thinking, self-accountability, and strong sense of ownership