Borchers provides innovative coating additives, driers, catalysts, rheology modifiers, and more for a wide range of coating applications around the world. My role as an Applications and Development Laboratory Technician and Chemist is to evaluate product performance to assist R&D and marketing teams with insights as to how these products could be used in new or emerging markets.- Working independently and as part of a team to perform testing/experimentation to create data packages, confirm or reject hypotheses, report results using written and oral laboratory reports/presentations. - Collaboratively working with lab technicians, other chemists, marketing, and customers.- Developed 5 standard operating procedures for test methods and equipment that were shared with other laboratories both locally and globally across Borchers. - Planning multi-variable experiments using original and industry standard formulations according to ASTMs. - Use extensively and developed the requirements for an online laboratory notebook that improves efficiency and provides a standard data input method for use across Borchers labs worldwide.- Participating on the laboratory safety committee that conducts 6S audits on a weekly basis.- Assisted in the training of 3 newly hired lab technicians and chemists. - RCRA Hazardous Waste Management Certification- Hazmat Ground Shipper Certification (49CFR DOT)