Plant Chemist I

The Plant Chemist is accountable for ensuring and improving product quality and production efficiency while leading key process improvement projects and teams. This role leads the Manufacturing Hygiene program and is responsible for identifying key areas of improvement and implementing projects to ensure compliance with hygiene standards.

Additional Information:

Days: 7:30am - 4:00pm, Monday to Friday, however flexibility will be required.

5% Travel

This position is also eligible for a bonus based on performance and is subject to the terms of the Company’s applicable plans.

This position is eligible for health benefits, such as medical, dental, and vision coverage, Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), disability coverage, security, retirement and saving benefits, and more. Additional benefits include a generous time away from work package, including personal leave, paid parental leave, medical leave, vacation, holidays, among other benefits. For more information about our benefits, visit https://sherwin.benefitscentre.ca/.

Job duties include contact with other employees and access to confidential and proprietary information and/or other items of value, and such access may be supervised or unsupervised. The Company therefore has determined that a review of criminal history is necessary to protect the business and its operations and reputation and is necessary to protect the safety of the Company’s staff, employees, and business relationships.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements:

• Must be at least eighteen (18) years of age
• Must be legally authorized to work in the country of employment
• Must have an Associate’s degree or higher in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math (“STEM”) field
• Must have at least one (1) year of work experience in a Quality or R&D function or have completed a Sherwin-Williams Development Program in a Quality or R&D function

Preferred Qualifications:

• Have at least one (1) year of experience working as a Plant Chemist
• Have at least one (1) year of experience working in a manufacturing and/or distribution facility
• Have prior work experience analyzing paint and coatings formulations and processes
• Have completed formal training in and/or have at least one (1) year of work experience applying continuous improvement tools such as Six Sigma, 5-S, Lean Manufacturing, Transactional Lean, etc.
• Have a Six Sigma Certification (Green Belt, Black Belt, etc.)

Responsibilities

• Identify process and quality problems, determine systematic root cause, and recommend corrective action
• Reduce the number of distressed batches and improve hygiene results
• Perform routine paint and raw material testing as needed
• Assist in determining the disposition of distressed batches and identifying rework opportunities
• Identify process and formula changes needed for successful manufacturing of existing formulas
• Monitor new production and communicate potential problems to appropriate departments
• Coordinate test batches with production scheduling
• Maintain local formulas in the formulation system
• Ensure that all data is entered into the hygiene database to maintain compliance with hygiene monitoring standards
• Provide support and guidance to lab technicians
• Support training of new employees
• Lead and participate in continuous improvement projects