Scale Up Engineer

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Ready to explore, break barriers, and discover more? We know you’ve got big plans – so do we! Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people’s lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix of people, customers, patients, and planet. That's why we are always looking for curious minds that see themselves imagining the unimaginable with us.  

Everything we do in EMD Electronics is to help us deliver on our purpose of being the company behind the companies, advancing digital living. We are dedicated to being the trusted supplier of high-tech materials, services and specialty chemicals for the electronics, automotive and cosmetics industries. We foster a global collaborative organization made up of individuals who have the passion to win, obsess about the customer, are relentlessly curious and act with urgency. Together, we push the boundaries of science to make more possible for our customers.

This role does not offer sponsorship for work authorization. External applicants must be eligible to work in the US.
 

Your Role: 

     We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Scale-Up Engineer to join the Advanced Manufacturing & Digitalization team within our Formulations business. The successful candidate will be responsible for scaling up new patterning and planarization products from the R&D lab to high-volume manufacturing (HVM), ensuring efficiency, safety, quality, and compliance with industry standards. Specific responsibilities include:

• Lead the development and optimization of chemical manufacturing processes for scale-up of new products from the laboratory to the pilot plant and high-volume production
• Design and conduct experiments to evaluate process parameters and performance
• Perform small-scale lab chemistry to model and understand large-scale process chemistry and inform HVM process design
• Design pilot-scale processes that are representative of HVM conditions in order to sample customers with consistent quality throughout the scale-up and commercialization stages
• Implement process improvements to enhance efficiency, quality, yield, and safety
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including R&D, production, marketing, and quality assurance to ensure seamless process transfer
• Analyze data and provide detailed technical reports and documentation to support of new product introduction (NPI) milestones
• Develop standard operating procedures (SOP) and product design output forms (PDOF) to ensure consistent product quality after transfer to HVM operations
• Ensure compliance with environmental, health, and safety regulations
• Troubleshoot and resolve process-related issues in a timely manner
• Apply the Stage-Gate methodology for new product launches, ensuring thorough completion of each stage and data-backed decision-making for gate approvals

Who You Are

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering, chemistry, or other life science disciplines
• 2+ years’ experience using process simulation software, design of experiments, and statistical modeling/analysis to drive process development and scale-up activities

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree or PhD in chemical engineering, chemistry, or other life science disciplines
• Experience in the semiconductor, pharmaceutical, petrochemical, or specialty chemicals industry
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
• Ability to use data to drive decision making and communicate effectively with technical and non-technical peers
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Knowledge of regulatory requirements and quality standards (e.g., REACH, RoHS, ISO 9001)
• Knowledge of process safety management and risk assessment

RSREMD

The Company is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. No employee or applicant for employment will be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, disability, military or veteran status, genetic information, gender identity, transgender status, marital status, or any other classification protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.  This policy of Equal Employment Opportunity applies to all policies and programs relating to recruitment and hiring, promotion, compensation, benefits, discipline, termination, and all other terms and conditions of employment. Any applicant or employee who believes they have been discriminated against by the Company or anyone acting on behalf of the Company must report any concerns to their Human Resources Business Partner, Legal, or Compliance immediately. The Company will not retaliate against any individual because they made a good faith report of discrimination.