R&D Application Engineer

At Lubrizol, we’re bringing to life the chemistry behind clean water, efficient transportation, reliable infrastructure, critical medicines, and the products people rely on every day through science, sustainability, and a culture of inclusion.

As part of our global team, you’ll be empowered to make a real impact - on your career, your community, and the world around you.

Permanent – 4 days on site / 1 day flexible

Senior Director, Technology Operational Excellence (US)

As the Technology Operational Excellence R&D System Application Engineer, you'll configure, deliver, and continuously improve our Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) platform. Working with Business Process Owners, Process Architects, Information Technology platform teams, developers, and external vendors, you'll translate approved requirements into robust, scalable, and maintainable solutions for scientific and laboratory processes.

• Configure and maintain new and production functionality within LIMS, translating approved business requirements into scalable and supportable platform solutions.
• Design and implement laboratory workflows, forms, templates, reports, dashboards, test methods, uploaders, and supporting data structures.
• Establish and maintain configuration standards, technical documentation, and best practices, keeping designs current through continuous improvement and platform lifecycle updates.
• Define and implement laboratory data standards and direct the technical design and maintenance of test methods, measurement structures, uploaders, and reporting outputs.
• Develop training materials and train, coach, and mentor global Data Stewards to strengthen adoption, data quality, and stewardship capability.
• Troubleshoot platform configuration issues and deliver break fixes, enhancements, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Identify opportunities to simplify configuration, improve usability, increase operational efficiency, and report adoption, utilization, and efficiency measures for deployments.
• Serve as the technical expert for scientific and laboratory process configuration, escalating infrastructure, security, access, integration, release management, and business process design matters to the appropriate owners.

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, data science, chemistry, or a related technical or scientific discipline.
• At least one year of laboratory environment experience configuring or supporting scientific, laboratory, LIMS, Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN), data workflow, or low-code/no-code platforms.
• Understanding of laboratory workflows, scientific data, test methods, measurements, samples, results, and data-quality expectations.
• Experience with Python or a similar coding or scripting language, with a strong understanding of code logic and structured problem solving.
• Ability to translate requirements into clear technical configurations using analytical and logical thinking.
• High attention to data quality, data structures, master data discipline, and repeatable ways of working.
• Confidence working with configuration logic, workflows, constraints, triggers, templates, uploaders, reports, and dashboards.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex application issues and identify practical, sustainable fixes.
• Experience working with a global team.

At Lubrizol, we're committed to providing a safe, inclusive, and empowering environment where you can do your best work. This role supports scientific and laboratory processes through computer-based platform configuration and collaboration with global stakeholders. We continuously invest in our facilities and technologies to support your…