Chemist-Coating Specialist

Mativ is a global leader in specialty materials headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia. The Company offers a wide range of critical components and engineered solutions that connect, protect, and purify our world.

Mativ Brownville &Lowville is looking for a  Specialist to join our dynamic team where your experience and efforts make a difference. This position will be located in the Brownville & Lowville,NY mills. The incumbent will work within the Operations & Technical Departments to support key initiatives and help drive and achieve short and long-term goals.

This position will be expected to help look at the overall business (from raw materials to finished products), prioritize process improvements needs, work with the team to find solutions and take responsibility for implementing those solutions. This position will report to Lowville Site Operations Manager.

Develop an in-depth understanding of all manufacturing equipment and processes to effectively manage new product development, cost reduction opportunities, and process optimization

Support,participate and exemplify the corporate Mativ Value system as appropriate, with theobjectiveof achieving overall business goals and objectives.

Support the Mativ Zero Incident Culture for safety and environmental in the philosophy that all incidents are preventable.

Participate inand lead zero incident safety culture initiatives such as planned inspections, Velocity reporting and investigations, PPE auditing, etc.

Complete all required safety training activities.

Supportbothmill’s technical efforts to drive quality performance and continuous improvement of our paper making and off-line coating processes.

Provide adequate quality expectations, specifications, standards and technical expertise to the Operations team to ensure customer satisfaction and 1st time quality execution.

Develop and implement systems to ensure analysis of mill process capability in relation to specifications. Communicate and address identified concerns, as appropriate.

Manage supplier quality concerns in cooperative effort with procurement and COA information to ensure cost-effective delivery of materials that allow us to produce quality products in an economical fashion.

Provide technical knowledge to improvethequality of existing products and/or new product development.

Complete cost optimization projects that provide significant savings through product substitution, reduced variability, improved quality, and higher operating efficiency.

Collaborate on technical reports that clearly document trials, process improvement results, and capture cause and effect relationships.

Support development and execution of capital projects.

Ensure trial activities comply with corporate, state, and federal laws and regulations, including employee and product safety requirements

Conduct laboratory and machine trials to support new product development projects

Collaborating with cross-functional teams, such as Operations and Technical,to develop and execute trial plans.

Work with cross-functional teams internal and external to the organization, including customers

Determine and test Critical to Quality specifications for products and processes

Create and control intellectual property

Serve as an expert in product design

Execute projects within the framework of the established Stage-Gate process

Generate technical reports with relevant data, conclusions, and recommendations

Travel up to 10 %, excluding local travel to outside service providers, customers, or internal mill locations

Bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering, chemistry, or related areas such as pulp and paper science, anddemonstratesprocess troubleshooting and analytical problem-solving abilities.

Prior related…