A fast growing, well established international company is looking for a self-driven, energetic, and highly motivated Formulation Chemist to join their team. The company is committed to developing an impeccable team and servicing their distributor and customer network.
Essential Duties and Key Responsibilities
- Evaluate and formulate finished products to showcase hair dyes and hair dye blends for:
- Color enhancing shampoos, conditioners, and masks.
- Color depositing gels, lotions, liquids, creams, and foam products to cover gray and/or color hair (semi-permanent, demi-permanent, permanent, and auto-oxidative hair color).
- Bleach and lightening products.
- Evaluate performance of new and existing hair dyes and provide direction/feedback to Synthesis Group, Supply Chain, and QC department.
- Author, create, review, revise, update, and approve quality documents (product specifications, standard operating procedures, and safety data sheets).
- Perform stability testing on newly developed product lines. Develop new and improve existing product lines.
- New shade development and color matching.
- Meet with raw material suppliers and test raw materials.
- Maintain contact with raw material suppliers and retain knowledge of new products/trends related to hair color industry.
- Oversee, manage, and maintain formula database (Formulator and Regulator).
Quality Control
- Perform Quality Control on finished products using the following techniques/instruments:
- pH/pH meter
- Viscosity/Viscometer
- Color on Hair/Color Spectrophotometer
- Active Oxygen/Titration
- Troubleshoot Production Batches
Training/Education
- Provide Education, Training, and Technical Support as follows:
- Facilitate workshops (theoretical and practical) on color theory.
- Provide Distributor training for all company’s products and services.
- Provide on-going technical support for customers and distributors.
- Provide technical information to marketing for collateral and proofread copy where appropriate.
Qualifications
- Ability to study the composition and properties of hair color and hair care products.
- Ability to evaluate formulas, interpret results, and communicate improvements.
- Ability to use and operate laboratory equipment and instruments.
- Color matching experience required.
- Experience with powder dispersion and emulsions required.
- Mathematical skills in calculation are paramount.
- Impeccable multi-tasking, organization, and time management skills.
- Critical thinking skills and solid independent decision making abilities.
- Excellent collaboration skills.
- A strong team player with a positive and professional attitude and a strong bias for action to solve challenges.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills as well as excellent presentation skills.
- Ability to attend meetings and seminars as requested and report on content.
- Ability to supervise technicians, entry-level chemists, and temporary employees as company expands.
- Ability to provide technical advice, support, guidance, and development to less experienced team members.
- Willing to travel internationally (primarily for training purposes).
- Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry OR HEAVY experience in an R&D Hair Color Laboratory.
- Minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience required.
- Must be proficient in computer based software (Formulator, Regulator, CIE Color QC, Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook).
Interested candidates should submit their résumé to Ann Mokris at amokris@hotmail.com.