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Fuquay Varina, Nc, Us

Fuquay Varina, Nc, Us

Morrisville, North Carolina

Formulation Scientist responsible for participation and guidance for stage gate meetings, formulation development to meet both cost and performance targets, composing confidential statement of formulation, group A process definition, GLP lab collaboration, scale up to manufacturing and process redefinition. Primary indication: Seed treatment working with both fungicide and insecticides, associated manufacturing processes, blending, homogenization, and high shear. Storage stability testing of developed prototypes. Method development for analytical support. Updates to stake holders on timely basis and final product freeze. Qualification of alternate materials both technical and inert. Packaging material of construction designation. 5BA reporting for technical submission to the EPA. Recrystallization of technical material for standard use for analytical support.

Chicago Heights Il

Responsible for the final product quality for 212 million dollars of raw materials processed at the Chicago Heights facility. Train and oversee the development of four full time employees and two casuals in the safe use of laboratory instrumentation, intra-department communication, and safety culture. Direct involvement in the intra-laboratory customer validation. Implementation of the use of check sampling for the overall reduction in unnecessary batch manipulation for four different product lines and growing. Lead washout validation program with focus on washout procedures designed for reproducible results in a manufacturing environment. Maintain and promote a continuous improvement ethos with a focus on relationships within the various departments at the Chicago Heights facility. Participate in the auditing of confidential statement of formula with regulatory department to ensure both EPA and FIFRA compliance. Bill of material adjustment with the flux of raw material sourcing. Method development for HPLC, GC and inductively coupled plasma. Support the needs of production by providing 24 hour quality support both on site and remote. Standard operating procedure documentation. Health and Safety committee member.

Chicago Heights Il

Work with customers to integrate products into the Nufarm production stream; Perform direct comparisons between batch documentation,bill of material and confidential statement of formula; SOP documentation; method development and validation; team lead for washout validation for EPAK packaging line; prepare daily batch sheets incorporating rinsates retention basin water packaging remnants reject material and by-product water and distribute a shift and a half in advance;Monthly report of right-first-time metrics;maintain quality specifications in Oracle ERP program; modify recipes in PLC environment; train support formulation chemist; make batch adjustments when necessary; R&D support

Perform wet chemistry evaluations; perform HPLC testing; perform physical characteristic observations; develop data base for the purpose of COA generation and statistics; Adage quality implementation; method testing for the glyphosate content using UV-VIS; product foam studies; HDPE evaluation on 30 gallon drums as an effect of solvent content

Support the Nufarm QC staff

Master'S Degree, Analytical Chemistry, A+

Bachelor'S Of Science, Chemistry

Material Science research, electorplating platinum to determine ideal distribution for improved current generation; using sonochemistry.