Senior Development Scientist

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Are you ready to do something remarkable? Ready to collaborate with an incredible team to solve problems that improve people’s lives? Meet Ingevity.

At Ingevity, we develop innovations that purify, protect and enhance the world around us. Our products enable oil to flow better, crops to grow fuller, roads to last longer and ensure that the air we all breathe is cleaner.

Our people come from all different backgrounds and help reimagine new possibilities daily. We understand there is no challenge too big and no contribution too small. We seek out new ideas for tackling complex problems and celebrate achieving the improbable. We value each person’s unique talents and synergize them to create meaningful impact and sustainable solutions for our customers and our world.

Bold. Energetic. Ingenious. Genuine. If these qualities describe you, we’d love for you to join Ingevity!

Position Overview:

You will join an up-beat, collaborative and fun team, helping us further develop exciting business opportunities. This is a new position and the person who steps into this role will collaborate with some of the finest technical and commercial development specialists in the activated carbon arena today. At a time of unprecedented growth for our business, we’re looking for the right person to help expand beyond our existing business line. In this new position, you will play a lead role in defining and developing new potential technologies and products for our Performance Materials business. There’s a lot to get excited about in our business today; we’re looking for someone who shares our enthusiasm and can join us in delivering it to our customers.

How you will impact Ingevity:

• Plans, designs, and conducts critical experiments, manage, and drive technical projects, individual and collaborative experimentation work, identify the key performance criteria with high potential for the technology, provide state-of-the-art reviews on materials, applications, and markets.

• Works effectively with innovation, product/process development, quality and business development teams to provide data to answer customer and business development questions. Assists with identifying new equipment and development of new test methods. Build and manage a network of contacts.

• Build (with legal team) and manage collaborations with external partners.

• Responsible for managing technical projects within the innovation portfolio. This includes coordinating experiments and tests, application evaluations and assisting scale-up efforts. Supplemented by market data from business development team, individual will help drive projects to a decision point.

What you need to succeed:

• Masters in materials science, chemistry, or chemical engineering field with minimum 7 years industrial experience in R&D and/or Product Development, or Phd in similar fields with 4 years industrial experience in similar role. Experience in Adsorption processes and materials development for energy storage are a plus.

• Conduct experimental work methodically with ability to resolve issues quickly to maintain timelines.

• Love for working in a laboratory.

• Experience with managing multiple technical projects and connecting material properties to application test results and product performance.

• Ability to work autonomously while also working effectively in a team environment.

• Strength with both oral and written communication is a must as your success will depend upon your capacity for building personal connections and for conveying knowledge through monthly reports, technical memos and powerpoint presentations.

• Flexibility in work assignments to accommodate projects and groups.

• Resiliency and temperament to quickly change project direction or urgency per new market or technical information.

• Willingness and ability to travel domestically or internationally, 10 – 25%

• This position is eligible for relocation assistance.

• This role is not eligible for employment visa sponsorship. The successful candidate must not now, or in the future, require sponsorship to work in the US.

Ingevity is a company made up of extraordinary people of every race, religion and background, all worthy of the same dignity. Our differences are one of our great strengths. Join us in building a culture of increasing diversity and respect – a culture where everyone belongs.

Ingevity is an Equal Opportunity Employer, Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled.

Recruiting Agencies: Ingevity does not accept unsolicited resumes and therefore, will not be responsible for any fees associated with unsolicited resumes.