Senior Chemist

At TCI Powder Coatings, we’re more than a premier supplier of powder coatings – we’re a team of innovators, problem-solvers, and customer champions, serving clients across North America. As an industry leader, we take pride in our people, products, and unmatched service, and we’re looking for talent individuals ready to help us grow even further.

Our commitment to excellence starts with our team. From Sales to Technical Service, Manufacturing to Customer Service, we offer exciting career opportunities that align with your strengths, ambitions, and goals. Whether you’re looking to kickstart your career or take it to the next level, we provide clear paths to individual growth and overall company success.

We are looking for a Sr. Powder Chemist (Metallics/Special Effects) to join our Research & Development team and play a key role in developing, optimizing, troubleshooting, and commercializing powder coating technologies. This is an opportunity for a technical expert to have a meaningful impact on new product development, customer solutions, manufacturing performance, and the continued advancement of our powder coating portfolio.

In this role, you will work at the intersection of chemistry, formulation, processing, application, and customer performance. You will have the technical independence to solve complex formulation challenges while partnering closely with R&D, manufacturing, quality, sales, customers, and raw material suppliers.

• Develop and optimize powder coating formulations for a variety of performance requirements, applications, substrates, and end-use markets.
• Select and optimize resins, curing agents, pigments, fillers, additives, and other raw materials to achieve targeted coating properties, appearance, durability, and processing characteristics.
• Design and execute laboratory experiments to evaluate formulation variables, identify root causes, and efficiently solve complex technical problems.
• Formulate bases required to color match metallic standards.
• Perform in-house metallic bonding to provide powder samples to customers.
• Develop an expert understanding of the relationship between formulation chemistry, powder processing, application conditions, and final coating performance.
• Work with powder manufacturing processes—including premix, extrusion, cooling, grinding/classification, and powder handling—to optimize product quality and consistency.
• Evaluate coating performance through laboratory testing, including properties such as adhesion, hardness, impact, flexibility, chemical resistance, corrosion resistance, weatherability, gloss, color, appearance, cure response, and other application-specific requirements.
• Troubleshoot coating and manufacturing issues and determine appropriate formulation or process adjustments.
• Support scale-up from laboratory development through pilot and commercial production, ensuring formulations are robust, reproducible, and commercially viable.
• Lead technical aspects of new product development and commercialization projects, establishing project scope, experimental plans, milestones, and technical deliverables.
• Translate customer and market requirements into practical formulation and product-development strategies.
• Provide technical support to manufacturing, quality, sales, customer service, and other internal teams.
• Partner with customers and suppliers to investigate technical issues, evaluate new raw materials, and develop solutions to challenging coating applications.
• Maintain accurate laboratory records, formulation documentation, test results, and project information.
• Communicate technical findings and recommendations clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to…