Chemist I

**Essential Responsibilities**:

- Establishes own timeline with mínimal changes.
- Demonstrates broader knowledge pertinent to role.
- Designs and executes experiments.
- Begins to act as a technical resource to other employees in terms of project management.
- Capable of completing project from start to finish.
- Performs technically-based investigations and begins to leverage knowledge from background research.
- Demonstrates critical thinking skills, recognizes anomalies, but may need further coaching or direction.
- Demonstrates a personal commitment to the team by helping/assisting other employees.

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Eligibility to Work

Equal Opportunity Employer

An equal opportunity employer, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against based on race, colour, religion or belief, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, ethnic or national origin, disability, age pregnancy or maternity, marital or civil partner status, or any other protected characteristic prohibited by law.

**Competencies**:
Adaptability
- Seeks and uses feedback/information to identify and participate in appropriate learning areas.
- Begins to understand and positively adjust priorities through direct communication with Supervisor.

Customer Orientation
- Begins to interact with customers outside own department, external customers and/or vendors with moderate support from Supervisor or Project Lead.
- Gathers information about project/scope from the Supervisor/Project Lead. Understands customer requirements from a technical perspective and begins to understand customer needs with input from Supervisor.
- Uses technical knowledge to ask questions to help set priorities and make decisions.
- Communicates regularly with Supervisor or Project Lead to ensure customer satisfaction.

Decision Making
- Analyses data/results, identifies issues and recognises anomalies but may need to be coached on how to proceed further.
- Suggests ways to solve problems, implement plans, evaluate and improve products/ processes, and improve work flow etc.

Earning Trust
- Drives transparency in communication within department.
- Identifies and communicates effectively when errors are discovered in own and others work.
- Uses technical knowledge to ask questions to help set priorities and make decisions.
- Communicates regularly with Supervisor or Project Lead to ensure results meet customer satisfaction.

Innovation
- Asks questions to understand current practices and begins to propose new ways of doing things or enhancing processes.
- Seeks to understand the big picture and how their project work affects the department.
- Begins to establish a basic technical support network within department.

Managing Work
- May lead individual projects or small portions of technically challenging projects.
- Plans, priorities, and adjusts own work with moderate guidance.
- Identifies barriers that may impact timelines and then communicates concerns to Supervisor or Project Lead.

Teamwork
- Begins to act as a technical resource to group.
- Shares project information with the team, Project Lead and/or Supervisor and starts to share information outside project team.
- Leads by example and/or may informally mentor one or more lower level employees.

**Qualifications/Experience/Knowledge**:

- Minimum BSc/MSc in Chemistry or Equivalent
- Experience of Protective Coatings

**Personal Qualities and Behaviors**:

- Innovative Thinker
- Team Player
- Confident communicator

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