Sr Scientific Associate

About this Position

AtHenkel, you’ll part of an organization that’s shaping the future through innovation, sustainability and collaboration. With our trusted brands like Persil®, ‘all®, Loctite®, Snuggle®, and Schwarzkopf® and our cutting-edge technologies, you’ll have countless opportunities to explore new paths andgrow.

This position is with our Adhesive Technologies business unit – where we empower ourpeople to transform industries and provide our customers with a competitive advantage through adhesives, sealants and functional coatings.

Dare to learn new skills, advance in your career andmake an impact at Henkel.

• Develop new technologies and products in support of electronic adhesives business. Identify opportunities for new technologies, products, or performance improvements
• Leads one or multiple R&D projects critical to business and ensures timely project milestone advancement. Actively makes specialized knowledge available to the organization
• Stays current with technology and market megatrends. Acts as responsible for new research, IP, publications, technology roadmap. Secures IP position in own area of development
• Design, develop, execute and support on-time commercialization of new film adhesive formulations and products.
• Prepare and deliver presentations on research projects for internal teams, management, customers and technical conferences
• Directly interact and communicate with external customers and respond to customer requests in timely fashion
• Effectively work in cross functional teams across different time zones with members from product development, project management, application engineering, process engineering, marketing and sales
• Understand state-of-art technology advancement and apply it to product development
• Generate new intellectual properties. Actively search for new ideas and technology from within or outside

• PhD degree in Chemistry, Polymer Sciences, Material Science, Chemical Engineering, or in any other related scientific areas
• Minimum 3-5 years of experience in the areas of polymer based composite or adhesive product development is required.
• Prior experience of adhesive product development for electronic applications, metallurgical experience or knowledge of semiconductor packaging is highly desired
• Strong leadership, communication skills, and excellent interpersonal skills are essential
• Proven ability to invent and innovate, and strong ability to design and implement experiments are needed
• Motivated self-starter with strong initiative and with the ability to work independently and to participate creatively in team collaboration
• Individual with proven track record of success in new technologies and products developed, invention disclosures and patents, and published scientific papers publication in peer reviewed journals
• The ability to work autonomously on multiple projects is needed
• Ability to work onsite, 5 days a week, in Irvine, CA.

• Health Insurance: affordable plans for medical, dental, vision and wellbeing starting on day 1
• Work-Life Balance:
  
  Paid time off including sick, vacation, holiday and volunteer time, flexible& hybrid work policies (depending on role), and vacation buy / sell program
• Financial: 401kmatching, employee share plan with voluntary investment and Henkel matching shares, annual performance bonus, service awards and student loan reimbursement
• Family Support:12-week gender neutral parental leave (up to 20 weeks for parents giving birth), fertility support, adoption & surrogacy reimbursement, discounted child and elderly care, and scholarships
• Career Growth: diversenational and international growth opportunities, access to thousands of skills development courses, and tuition reimbursement

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