Scientist - General Metal Finishing

**A Day in Your Life at MKS**:
As a Scientist at MKS MSD you will partner with GMF R&D to support in product development and associated activities. In this role, you will report to the functional team manager in GMF R&D. You will carry out different approaches and methodologies to conduct different R&D activities related to product development, testing, qualification, troubleshooting, and process optimization under the technical guidance. You will be working closely with colleagues from your own team, team manager, R&D manager, and other cross-functional departments local and global. An open and clear communication with the team members and R&D manager is expected. You are expected to come up with your own ideas and approaches to execute the tasks and duties successfully. When required, you will also act as a support to customer through consultation, trouble shooting, process optimization, site visits and on-site troubleshooting, maintaining the confidentiality and compliance of the department and the company.

**You Will Make an Impact By**:

- Creation Design of experiments (DOE) and independent planning of Project assigned with project management frameworks.
- Perform and execute assigned tasks in a timely and qualitative manner.
- Develop and modify product formulations as per the business requirement while reading, using appropriate literature / patent / competition / supplier searches/ market research related to the projects
- Working and collaborating with other team members in laboratory environment.
- Bringing innovation mindset and own ideas and creative strategies to make product and processes efficient.
- Shall interact with cross functional team members local and global.
- Open to new ideas, innovation and creativity would be demanded for effective and reliable processes development - Encourage self & team to promote R&D developments, research orientation, paper & literature study and writing.
- Support to project and teams with acceptable technical inputs in their projects & Literature search for new R&D projects. May write technical papers and patents.
- Exploring & Identification of disruptive technologies, new opportunities, read and up to date with market and embrace research perspective
- Transparent and regular effective communication of task completion progress to stakeholders.
- Self-motivated and self-initiated actions to maintain the work culture and task completion.
- Maintenance of 5S and safety as per the MKS MSD and departmental guidelines.
- Active participation in team building.
- Maintaining the confidentiality of the projects and other Departmental information.
- Interaction with the customer to troubleshoot, process optimization, and site visit/conducting trials at the customer site (if required)

**Skills You Bring**:
**Technical Skills -**
- 1-3 yrs. corporate experience in industries like chemical/ electrochemical/ polymer/ physical/ organic/ inorganic & Surface treatment.
- Education background of PhD in Chemistry/ Electrochemistry / Polymer Chemistry / Physical Chemistry / Organic Chemistry
- Six sigma (Green belt onwards) / Project management certifications would be an added advantage
- Experience in e-notebooks/ELN would be an added advantage
- Data driven mindset & Experience in statistics and data interpretation & representation - Gather, Visualize, Interpret, Conclude
- Demonstrated ability to work independently and within team with a strong focus on delivering results and identifying alternative solutions when challenges arise

**Mandatory Skills**:

- Experience in working in chemical laboratories, developing formulations & products, and qualifications.
- Basic understanding on solvents, surfactants, additives, reaction mechanisms, stoichiometry, electrochemistry - key components, their reaction mechanism, molecular interactions.
- In depth knowledge of surfactants, polymers, organic and inorganic molecules
- Tuning structure property relationships of organic and inorganic molecules
- Synthetic knowledge of organic and inorganic molecules
- Experience on detergency, colloidal chemistry is a plus.

**Soft skills**:

- Ability to analyze data and provide logical conclusions, document in the form of research report, present work in the relevant forums to team members/scientific audience.
- Strong oral and written communication, collaboration and team player skills
- Quick learner, Agile, proactive; would have passion for innovation to create new products and add value in R&D
- Strong critical and analytical skills to ensure all aspects of projects are clearly understood, well documented and conclusive for the exit gate reporting.
- Creative, structured, methodical, and time bound workstyle.
- Self-motivated, out of the box thinking, self-accountability, and strong sense of ownership