First Quality is seeking a Product Development Scientist to create, develop, and implement new and proprietary designs of absorbent-related product systems based upon business, customer, and consumer needs, and to provide support for existing product systems.
Requirements
- 3+ years in R&D inventing, developing and implementing new products.
- Knowledge of and experience with developing product systems for the retail market, preferably hygiene products
- Knowledge of materials used in retail absorbent products (e.g. pulp, super absorbent polymers, nonwovens).
- Working knowledge of consumer product converting technologies for pulp, paper and nonwoven materials.
- Experience with the process of searching, evaluating and filing patents.
- Experience providing direction for the physical testing of hypotheses, resulting in specific conclusions and recommendations.
- Good analytical skills, with working knowledge of basic statistics.
Responsibilities
- Design new products and product improvements to meet business and consumer needs.
- Develop new and improved materials and technologies with suppliers, and ensure all new raw materials obtain proper safety testing and clearance.
- Use basic Design of Experiments (DOE) techniques to develop experimental plans.
- Support the existing business product cost improvements through product redesigns.
- Provide technical support to reduce consumer complaints.
- Support corporate proprietary technology by documenting and patenting novel ideas.
- Develop new test methods to better predict and understand product performance in use.
Other
- Participate as a member of the Product Development team; execute projects in timely, diligent, safe, and professional manner, and contribute to the growth of the team and department.
- Work with more senior scientist or manager to help set project objectives.
- Coach and develop indirect reports to enhance team performance towards department objectives.
- Able to speak, read and write the English language and have strong oral and written communication skills.
- Good computer skills in Microsoft Office program.
- Able to travel ~20-30% to US and International for product and process trials.
