R&D Technician

R&D/TS&D Technician

Dow has an exciting opportunity for an R&D Technician located in Lake Jackson, TX!

About this role

As an R&D Technician, you will provide basic technical support to Lead Scientists and Technologist Leaders in the preparation and execution of experimental activities and studies. You will also provide technical support for product development, application development, technical service, and/or product or process research.

In this role, you will be using your prior related experience, job-related training, or vocational training to complete routine activities. You will need to have basic technical or administrative skills to follow the established and approved work processes. You will need to understand how these assigned duties relate to other jobs within your workgroup and be able to exchange basic technical information with other team members.

It is your responsibility to use standard operating procedures and/or analytical/scientific methods to address defined and straightforward problems. You must have the ability to select solutions from established options to resolve typical administrative, data organization, and data coordination problems. You will be accountable for managing your own assigned workload with no additional supervisory responsibilities. Your performance impacts the quality of your own work as well as your team’s work. You will receive close to moderate level of supervision and guidance in this role.

Responsibilities – Duties, projects, tasks, and activities you would be responsible for in this role

• Works as part of a team in a laboratory supporting chemists and engineers in developing, screening and commercializing new products and process
• Manages and then safely executes laboratory work requests, maintaining and running relevant laboratory apparatus and testing equipment and documenting data
• Prepares for and independently performs standard and some non-routine procedures using relevant equipment and instruments, for which activities may include sample or materials preparations, equipment setup and/or configurations, and proper handling and disposal of waste materials that may be generated from experimental activities
• Accurately and reliably records readings and observations using relevant equipment and instruments
• Acts responsible for calibration, safe operation, and routine maintenance of simple and moderately complex instruments or machinery, and troubleshoots faulty equipment effects repairs or initiates repair processes as appropriate
• Maintains inventories of consumable materials, chemicals, and supplies related to activities by anticipating usage rates, order lead times, and ordering/purchasing procedures
• Promptly and effectively communicates issues to Technology Leader or lead scientists in order to enable or accelerate problem resolution
• Actively participate in work group team meetings to address safety, process improvement, problem solving, and other work group, department, and functional topics

Required Qualifications

• A minimum of an Associates degree in Chemistry or a related field OR 4 years of military training/experience
• A minimum requirement for this U.S. based position is the ability to work legally in the United States.  No visa sponsorship/support is available for this position, including for any type of U.S. permanent residency (green card) process

Preferred Qualifications

• 1+ years of relevant work experience

Additional Note: This role does not offer relocation assistance.