Research Development Team Lead

Qualification & Experience

• M.Sc. Polymer Science/ Paint Technology.
• 6 to 10 years in coatings/ Polymer industry/ Adhesives
• Location : Kanchipuram Plant
• Reports to : R & D Manager

Key Roles

• Development of new products, cost reduction projects, alternative raw material source development projects and Quality improvement projects
• Coordination of new product development activities with cross functional team like Application team, production, and QC.
• Initiative activities to improve quality of existing products as well as derive new products with improved quality.
• Interact with other function like production etc, to get in depth of process and execute trials.
• Ensuring stage gate process in all new product development
• Technical support for production. Coordination with production department for troubleshooting by providing technical Support.
• Transfer of technology by analysing the pitot data, coordinating the plant trials, optimizing the process condition at plant scale with finalized processes and specifications.
• Conduct preliminary patent and literature search on development projects and related topics, new inventions/ applications.
• Identifying new raw materials for cost reduction, process improvement, and new technologies and to make green products.
• Follow up for safe laboratory working practices, documentation of project works, ISO Quality standards and assisting for internal& external lab documentation works.
• Technical support for QC: Technical development for new products and developing technical documents as per lMS, Support for measuring systems
• Technical Support for Marketing team: Support for field traits, field support queries and benchmarking report for competition products. Trial and establishing products that are having issue.

Skills & Knowledge

• Good knowledge on materials – Resin, substrates like metal, wood, and other materials in coating applications'
• Experience in formulations in chemistry and Synthesis of solvent-based coatings and water-based Coatings for Anti-corrosive coatings, wood coatings, adhesives, pigments, and colour matching techniques.