Technical Specialist
Position Overview:
The Technical Specialist is responsible for performing application and performance evaluation of chemical additives related to the paper industry while maintaining accurate records of experiments, writing reports, and communicating results to customers, sales department, and technical team members.
Responsibilities:
- Work in a safe manner within a laboratory environment.
- Conduct customer service lab projects that involve wet-end, surface, and coating chemicals withing the pulp and paper industry.
- Maintain timely and accurate records of experiments, formulate reports, and communicate results and insights.
- Compare Archroma products to competitive products.
- Prepare customer promotion packages that demonstrate Archroma's benefits.
- Occasionally, travel to customer sites to run trials and on-site laboratory evaluations.
- Dialogue with chemical and equipment suppliers.
Qualifications:
- B.S. degree in Paper Science, Chemistry or Chemical Engineering.
- 1-5 years of experience working in a laboratory environment.
- Experience in designing and executing application experiments and analyzing data.
- Familiarity with the pulp and papermaking process and proficiency in using lab equipment related to the paper industry.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
Our company
Archroma is a global leader in color and specialty chemicals with strong market insight, highly talented people and a long history of material excellence and expertise. Archroma is headquartered in Pratteln near Basel, Switzerland, and operates with approximately 4500 employees and 30 production sites, over 42 countries. Through our two divisions: Textile Effects (TE) and Paper, Packaging & Coatings (PP&C), we deliver specialized performance and color solutions to meet customer needs in their local markets. A company committed to innovation, world-class quality standards, high service levels, cost-efficiency and sustainability, Archroma develops technologies that improve the beauty and performance of everyday products. Products enhanced, colors enhanced, performance enhanced – “Life enhanced”.
Our people
Our people have a rich tradition of working side by side with our customers as long-term partners, developing tailored solutions that help customers deliver business success. Every day, with our passion, commitment to excellence and innovation, our people create specialized performance and color solutions designed to appeal to our senses and emotions for a greater life experience. At Archroma we foster diversity, equity and inclusion for everyone, whatever their gender, nationality, age, educational level, etc. Our different backgrounds and talents enrich our perspective and help us create a performance-driven and collaborative culture, based on its AACC pillars: 1) Achieve and exceed; 2) Adapt and innovate; 3) Center on customer; and 4) Collaborate and embrace diversity.
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Our people have a rich tradition of working side by side with our customers as long-term partners and trusted advisors, developing tailored applications and solutions that help customers deliver business success.
This is how we help people fulfill their desire for products that appeal to their emotions and senses for a greater life experience, by developing beauty- and performance-improving technologies applied to everyday products.
We do that along the principles of "The Archroma to a Sustainable World: Safe, Efficient, Enhanced. It's our nature!"
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