R&D Lab Technician
Company: Fenix Group
Location: Minnetonka
Posted on: April 19, 2024
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Job Description:
Description:The Fenix StoryFenix Group's inception brought
together several smaller brands, each born from the vision of small
business owners. These entrepreneurs shared a profound love for
their industry, a passion for their products, and an unwavering
commitment to their loyal customers. Their businesses thrived
because customers could rely on quality products, friendly service,
and dedicated technical support. Each brand became synonymous with
exceptional quality, performance, and genuine care.What united
these brands was a shared dream-a dream to transcend individual
success and create a meaningful impact on the industry. Under one
unified team, Fenix Group, they aimed to achieve the
extraordinary.With that in mind, we are executing on a
transformation to build a results-driven and goal-oriented culture
cemented by our core values of reliable, can-do, curious, team
player, and achievement. We are focused on listening to customers
to better understand and service their needs, identifying
opportunities for growth within the market, and pursuing ways to
leverage technology and automation both within our manufacturing
plants, but also across our entire organization for our long-term
success.R&D VisionOur R&D Department serves as a valued
strategic partner driving technical excellence within Fenix Group.
This partnership extends beyond products and innovation as the
department serves as a conduit for alignment, ensuring that the
company aspirations around make it right the first time and a
consultative selling process, resonate across all departments.This
R&D Lab Technician position plays a key role on our R&D
team focused on the formulation and development of new paint
products, ensuring they meet performance, quality, and regulatory
requirements. This role will offer you growth by working directly
with our chemists and VP of R&D with the potential to move into
higher level roles within our R&D department based upon gained
skills. It's an opportunity to get your foot in the door and have
career security by gaining valuable experience!What You Will Get To
Do Each Day:Assist With Chemistry ProjectsYou'll primarily spend
your time partnering with our 3 chemists to develop and optimize
paint formulations. This will include conducting experiments &
tests to evaluate the performance and properties of the
formulations, including viscosity, adhesion, durability, and color
stability. You'll be working with a mix of both existing products
that need to be optimized/corrected or new products. You will then
analyze and interpret your documented experimental data to make
informed recommendations and decisions about formulation
adjustments or improvements. Support Operations ActivitiesYou will
spend time partnering with our purchasing team to source and
evaluate raw materials, additives, and pigments for use in paint
formulations as a part of our efforts to reduce our number of raw
materials or product cost. You will also support scale-up
activities for the successful transfer of formulations to
manufacturing, which may include following batches through the
production process and resolving any issues that may arise. This
role will also cross-train in Quality Control (QC) to support that
department as needed, as well as own the process of closing all
batch tickets after the product has shipped in order to spot
opportunities for formulation improvements to support right the
first time manufacturing. Complaint Resolution:You will serve as
the primary point of contact when a customer complaint is entered
pertaining to the formulation or performance of a product. This
will include investigating the complaint to ensure enough
information is available and then providing a root-cause
analysis.What You Will Need To Be Successful:
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