Safety & Laboratory Management
• Maintain laboratory activities in accordance with established safety, quality, and operational requirements.
• Promote a safe, clean, organized, and compliant laboratory environment consistent with Elinor protocols.
Material Characterization & Quality Control
• Lead analytical testing and qualification of incoming raw materials, including resins, polymers, binders, solvents, pigments, extenders, and functional additives.
• Establish and execute protocols for evaluating aging, volatile, and humidity-sensitive chemical inventory.
• Review CoAs, technical data, material submittals, and manufacturer certifications against internal specifications.
• Evaluate materials for degradation, contamination, cross-linking, phase separation, moisture ingress, and other quality concerns.
• Investigate batch failures, nonconforming materials, and off-spec product performance.
• Oversee incoming material inspection, testing documentation, and traceability records.
Independent Analytical & Failure-Mode Evaluation
• Perform advanced analytical testing using FTIR, UV-Vis, DSC, TGA, rheology, GC/MS, microscopy, spectroscopy, and environmental/mechanical methods.
• Lead coating and material failure investigations to identify root causes and recommend mitigation strategies.
• Develop and refine analytical methods to ensure consistency, repeatability, and scientific rigor.
Stress Testing & Reliability Assessment
• Lead thermal cycling, humidity, UV, abrasion, chemical resistance, accelerated aging, and other reliability testing.
• Interpret analytical and performance data and provide recommendations for formulation, process, and product improvements.
Quality Oversight & AS9100 Independence
• Maintain required independence from formulation, product modification, and disposition decisions in accordance with AS9100 requirements.
• Generate and communicate objective analytical findings, quality assessments, and technical recommendations.
• Provide independent analytical evidence supporting corrective-action and nonconformance investigations without exercising disposition authority.
Technical Leadership & Collaboration
• Serve as a technical resource for material performance, degradation, substrate interactions, analytical methods, and quality-control matters.
• Collaborate with scientists, managers, leadership, and customers on analytical investigations, testing programs, and quality requirements.
• Mentor scientists and technicians in analytical techniques, data interpretation, and quality-control practices.
• Prioritize and lead multiple QC evaluation programs and cross-functional analytical initiatives.
Documentation & Compliance
• Develop and maintain QA/QC SOPs, controlled documents, testing records, and supporting documentation to ensure traceability and audit readiness.
Other Duties
• Perform other duties as assigned.
Work schedule
- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
Benefits
- Paid time off
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Life insurance
- Disability insurance
- 401(k) matching