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R&D Scientist I
Buckman is a privately held, global specialty chemical company with headquarters in Memphis, TN, USA, committed to safeguarding the environment, maintaining safety in the workplace, and promoting sustainable development. Buckman delivers exceptional service and innovative solutions to our customers globally in the pulp and paper, leather, and water treatment sectors to help boost productivity, reduce risk, improve product quality, and provide a measurable return oninvestment. Buckman is in the middle of a digital transformation of its businesses and focused on building the capabilities and tools in support of this.
Language: English
Location: Memphis, Tennessee
Travel: Less Than 10%
Seniority Level: Associate
Position Summary
The Senior Digital Innovation Engineer will be responsible for delivering innovative products and technologies for industrial water treatment applications. The successful candidate will support and contribute to leadership of research projects in a fast-paced international environment that will cross multiple industries. You will play a hands-on and consultative role in the chemical product/technology development, working closely with other researchers and team members from regulatory, digital, marketing, and sales organizations to develop solutions that benefit our customers globally.
Competencies Needed for Success
Competencies Needed for Success:
• Completes or leads project development projects with minimal supervision or owns key project component development.
• Provides technical coaching on focus area and project facilitation to R&D associates
• Stays attuned to own performance and makes changes when necessary.
• Understands and accepts own share of both successes and failures.
• Holds self to high standards of performance; sets challenging goals.
• Makes use of new concepts and principles when addressing problems.
• Experiments to find the best possible solution and gains insight from test cases.
• Gains the right insights promptly when faced with new situations.
• Applies independent, industrial application troubleshooting skills and provides advanced tech support
• Swiftly cuts to the core of issues and skillfully separates root causes from symptoms.
• Thinks broadly about problems and appropriately incorporates new information and concepts when generating solutions.
Minimum Requirements to Apply:
- Ph.D. in Data Science or Data Analytics; or
- M.S. degree in any of the areas listed above with 5 years of requisite experience in relevant industry; or
- Bachelor's degree in any of the areas listed above with 8 years requisite experience in relevant industry
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