Company Description

Veolia Group is a global leader in environmental services, operating across all five continents with nearly 218,000 employees. Specializing in water, energy, and waste management, Veolia Group designs and implements innovative solutions for decarbonization, depollution, and resource regeneration, supporting communities and industries in their ecological transformation. Within this framework, Veolia's Water Technology Business brings together a dedicated team of experienced professionals committed to tackling the world’s most complex challenges related to water scarcity, quality, productivity, and energy. Together, we pursue a shared mission to create a more sustainable future.

Job Description

Role Summary:
The New Philadelphia Plant Quality Chemist will demonstrate strong analytical chemistry
proficiency and project leadership skills to execute on business goals, programs, and processes
for the North America Manufacturing team. In this role, a successful candidate will utilize
experience and expertise to perform QC testing, solve problems, lead projects, develop and
execute objectives, and positively effect short-term and some long-term business goals.
The Plant Quality Chemist is responsible for ensuring the quality of products manufactured by
the New Philadelphia plant as well as addressing and resolving quality incidents. In this role, the
successful candidate will provide daily on-site support to manufacturing, oversee quality
programs and initiatives as well as provide product quality guidance to both internal and
external customers.

Essential Functions

Consistently demonstrate compliance with regulatory requirements, company policies, and EHS rules/procedures.Plan, direct and coordinate the overall quality assurance functions for the New Philadelphia, OH plant.Lead troubleshooting investigations to resolve customer and internal quality incidents.Direct and coordinate the overall quality for materials, processes, and finished products to meet customer requirements.Lead problem-solving and improvement efforts, such as analysis and re-work of off-spec or expired inventory, process improvements, and cost-savings projects.Maintain and update QC lab procedures, raw material specifications and product specifications. Propose changes to QC specs as required using corporate MOC processes.Provide chemical and process expertise to manufacturing plants, including batch adjustments, troubleshooting and general quality support.Set up and use basic laboratory experiments and analytical equipment, including ICP, Ion Chromatography, Auto-Titrators, UV-VIS, FTIR, Viscometers, etc. Perform initial maintenance and troubleshooting of analytical instrumentation. Perform QC testing for active components beyond the testing capability of the plant lab.Calculate and communicate chemical adjustments for batches failing QC testing. Review off-spec, obsolete, and expired inventory and make recommendations to convert product into useable alternative products.Organize, perform, and monitor plant laboratory equipment calibrations to ISO requirements.Prepare or acquire laboratory product samples in support of corporate product sample program.Collect, record, analyze experiment data, communicate the status of projects and make recommendations.Develop analytical procedures as needed.Support business ISO Quality initiatives by ensuring laboratory compliance and conducting internal ISO audits.Requires cross-functional interaction and relationship including, but not limited to, Manufacturing, Regulatory, Sourcing, Technology, EHS, Finance, Global Product Management, Product Applications, Product Operations and the Commercial team.This list is not all-inclusive and may include other duties as assigned and necessary for the operation and management of the site.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry or related field of science from an accredited college or university.Minimum of three years’ experience in analytical or quality chemistry in an industrial chemical manufacturing environment, specifically with wet chemistry sample preparation and various titrimetric, spectroscopic and physical/gravimetric methods and ICP-OES and IC (Ion Chromatography).

Desired Traits:

Demonstrated ability to master specific chemical products/processes and analytical equipment methods.Ten years of experience in process, quality, or analytical chemistry in a laboratory environment.Experience with SAP data systemsAbility to interpret and understand analytical resultsExperience with making data-driven decisions that impact quality, cost, processes, etc.Experience with NSF, Kosher and Food Grade registrationsStrong project management skills and ability to proactively push projects forward to meet deadlinesStrong technical written communication and presentation skills.Ability to manage and drive multiple projects in a fast-paced and challenging environmentStrong problem-solving skills, with a results-oriented mindsetStrong interpersonal and leadership skillsAdvanced degree in Chemistry from an accredited college or university.

Salary Range: $110,000-$130,000

Additional Information

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As an inclusive company, Veolia is committed to diversity and gives equal consideration to all applications, without discrimination.