Associate Chemical Engineer, Sustaining R&D

Position Overview:

The Sustaining R&D Associate Chemical Engineer is involved in design, product improvement, testing and analysis utilizing a variety of chemical engineering disciplines. As a member of the Sustaining R&D team, you will verify, validate, and implement design changes to currently marketed products. This role supports cross-functional initiatives, including product development, quality, manufacturing, customer service, sales, marketing, and procurement, to enhance product performance, quality, customer satisfaction, and cost-efficiency, while ensuring compliance with internal quality systems and applicable EPA & FDA regulations in the consumable medical device and antimicrobial pesticide industry.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Supports all initiatives related to R&D Sustaining Engineering under very general supervision.
• Collaborate with project team members and other functional departments to assess, verify, validate and implement product design changes to currently marketed products in alignment with internal design change procedures.
• Create and conduct design verifications, validation protocol and reports.
• Review and evaluate design change requests to products to support changes in manufacturing processes, packaging, and labeling.
• Provide input on Risk Management activities as per company procedures.
• Perform product testing, evaluation, failure analysis and investigation of customer returns.
• When required, interact with our Suppliers and factory regarding product technical issues.
• Create and/or modify product design, specifications, drawings, procedures, CAD models (Solidworks/ AutoCAD) and Engineering Change Requests in accordance with quality system procedures.
• Collect and provide product design feedback to engineering and production operations personnel.
• Investigate customer complaints and field failures, develop solution and implement the solution into production in accordance with internal quality system procedures. This will require interfacing with our Customer Care Team and sometimes our customers.
• Prepare cost estimates on proposed major design products.
• Estimate 5% travel will be required for this position.