Sr. R&D Chemist

Compensation: Full-time, Exempt (E51) commensurate with experience.

Company Information:

ARG is the longest continuously operating refinery in North America dating back to 1881. Privately held, the employees and leadership pride themselves on offering competitive pay, generous benefits and a supportive culture of growth and learning. In addition to a 401k retirement plan to which the company makes matching contributions, ARG offers participation in an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) to qualified employees, through which they share in the profits of the company .

• Designs new products and technology. Creativity and original thought required to develop solutions to problems stated in more general terms. Handles product and technology problems. Makes judgments and recommendations to management.
• Performs both method development and routine analytical analysis using analytical instrumentation such as: UV Vis, FTIR, HPLC, GC, ED-XRF, and ICP-OES.
• Maintains analytical instrumentation and calibration/verification of analytical methods.
• Support analytical instrumentation maintenance in both the R&D and QC labs.
• Develops and conducts Gage R&R of analytical procedures in both R&D and QC.
• Interfaces, as required, with the commercial team members and customers.
• Provides formal presentations of technical projects to senior management.
• Performs atmospheric and vacuum distillation work to support crude assays.
• Learns R&D pilot plant operations and performs bench test methods simulating refinery processes.
• Stays current with new analytical technologies and regularly attends industry-related meetings and seminars.
• Assists Refinery Process Engineers and Operations in establishing on-line instrumentation.
• Develops standard operating procedures and provides associated training of the SOPs.
• Performs product and technology development with some oversight from more senior technical staff. Has more latitude within approved assignments or projects to meet goals and strategies for a work group. Work is typically reviewed by a Manager or more senior chemist.
• May direct the work of junior technical staff and technicians. Provides some input regarding project direction and resources.
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned by Supervisor/Management.

• Health Insurance including Medical, Dental, Optical & Prescription
• Life, Accident and Critical Illness Insurance Options
• Short & Long-term Disability Coverage
• Paid Holidays & Personal Days
• Education & Employee Assistance Plans
• Employee Stock Ownership & 401 (k) Plans

• MS in Chemistry or BS in Chemistry plus 5 years related experience or equivalent
• Proficient in SPC, analytical instrumental analysis, method development, statistics and/or advanced training in continuous improvement methodology
• Strong Computer and Electronics skills, Design of Experiments, Statistics, Method Development, Validation and Documentation.
• Ability to perform all R&D chemist I & II duties plus:
  Identify areas for improvement in the lab.

• Analytical Chemistry
• Sample Collection
• Scientific Testing
• Test Monitoring
• Familiar with standard concepts, practices, and procedures within field.
• Successful completion of all company mandated &/or job-related training programs deemed appropriate.

COGNITIVE DEMANDS:
Meet deadlines, focus attention, work independently, independent judgments, work with a team, communicating, reading comprehension, instruct/synthesize, critical thinking/troubleshooting. PHYSICAL DEMANDS: seeing (including colors), speaking, hearing, smelling, sitting, walk/climb, stand/reach, listening, writing. Push/pull/lift/carry 50 pounds.

This position, as well as every other position at American Refining Group, is required to conduct their work at a high level of safety and quality performance. We require our employees to adhere to safety policies and procedures and expect they will help and encourage colleagues to do so as well. Our goal is to strive for a Zero-Incident environment that is a benefit to our employees and community.

Our commitment to safety is identified as one of our core values: “Safety is our Compass”. Employees are expected to understand and operate under current Process Safety Management guidelines in accordance with their role. Adherence to our Refinery Conduct of Operations in…