A highly skilled and experienced Senior R&D Chemist for formulation development and application support in industrial cleaning solutions tailored to the food and beverage industry. The candidate to have deep knowledge of surfactants, cleaning protocols, and specialty additives, and will play a key role in developing innovative products, guiding junior scientists, and collaborating with field teams and customers. This role also includes leadership responsibilities, guiding lab technicians toward impactful research outcomes. Wide technical and business knowledge of the industry. Capable of customer cost and value analysis and comparison of various solutions for customer needs.
Design and develop new industrial cleaning formulations using surfactants and specialty additives. New/ improve products from concept to launch. Innovate and optimize products like track treatment lubricants, bottle wash additives, and process food cleaning agents. Evaluate and incorporate biocides for hygiene and microbial control. Various class of disinfectant including oxidizing and non-oxidizing, their mechanism of action and impact on materials at use and awareness of regulatory requirement in food industry. Good knowledge of surfactant chemistry especially the non-ionic range with respect to chain length, degree of EO/PO and its influence on cloud point solubility and detergency
Sound knowledge of chelates and new generation polymers which can deliver more suitable cleaning solution. Well versed in scaling of new product from laboratory to pilot plant and commercial production