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.