Research Scientist

Position: Research Scientist I
**** ESSENTIAL DUTIES
****** 10% Perform other duties as assigned**
* ** Strong chemistry and engineering skills (intermediate)**
* ** Uses standard DOE principles to set up and analyze experiments (intermediate)**
* ** Able to use SPC data to progress in trouble-shooting (intermediate)**
* ** Laboratory safety and understanding of OSHA and MSHA requirements (intermediate)**
* ** Knowledge in product quality tests and product requirements versus specifications (intermediate)**
* ** Capable of refining and reducing to practice patentable/trade secret ideas and concepts (intermediate)**
* ** Learns and utilizes electronic laboratory notebook software (intermediate)**
* ** Required to become familiar with a product line, SGI businesses, scale up processes (intermediate)
****** General*
* ** Knowledge / Skills****
* ** Effective verbal and written communicator (intermediate)**
* ** Highly proficient in spreadsheet, document, and presentation applications (advanced)**
* ** Prioritizes projects and tasks based on assigned project priorities (intermediate)**
* ** Analysis & problem solving skills (intermediate)**
* ** Collaborative and team-building skills (intermediate)**
* ** Provides technical direction for several smaller projects**
* ** Normally receives general direction on key and larger projects, especially at project onset**
* ** Could be providing technical service for key product lines**
* ** Must work with functional resources to achieve goals**
* ** Manages own time and capable of managing technician flow**
* ** Adherence to performance review and goal setting process**
* ** Proactively seeks guidance from other team members when needed**
* ** Good ability to apply feedback received for process improvement**
* ** Required to give formal technical progress/project reports to R&D and management
**** BS in Chemistry, Materials Science, or other chemical/engineering disciplines, with 2-4 years of relevant experience or 3-6 years of other industrial laboratory / R&D experience
****** Travel requirements:
** Domestic up to 10%
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* Working conditions:

** Primarily industrial R&D laboratory and office setting, requiring eye, hearing, hand, foot, and respiratory PPE. Occasional duties at manufacturing locations may be performed in enclosed facilities and/or outdoor areas where extremes of heat, cold, dust, noise, wet conditions and rough terrain exist
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* Physical requirements:

** Computer, MSHA / OSHA, lifting objects up to 40 lbs., extended or irregular hours, bending, kneeling, stooping
** For more than 90 years, Specialty Granules LLC (SGI) has been a leading producer of semi-ceramic coated, colored mineral granules for the North American residential and commercial roofing industry. Our longevity is a testament to our dependability as a supplier and the durability of our products. We take pride in the long-term relationships we have cultivated with the roofing industry’s manufacturers.
A privately held company, we have the ability and resources to provide exceptional customer service through our high standards of product quality, innovation, and responsiveness to the needs of our customers.
In addition to our Headquarters and Technical Center in Hagerstown, MD, we operate 4 manufacturing locations across the U.S. — Blue Ridge Summit, PA (also called Charmian);
Annapolis, MO;
Pembine, WI (also called Kremlin); and Ione, CA.
In each of the communities in which we are located, SGI has become a premier place to work. Our employees enjoy our strong emphasis on safety, our positive work environment, competitive wages and benefits, and our long term stability.
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