About Solstice Advanced Materials
Solstice Advanced Materials is a leading global specialty materials company that advances science for smarter outcomes. Solstice offers high-performance solutions that enable critical industries and applications, including refrigerants, semiconductor manufacturing, data center cooling, nuclear power, protective fibers, healthcare packaging and more. Solstice is recognized for developing next-generation materials through some of the industry's most renowned brands such as Solstice®, Genetron®, Aclar®, Spectra®, Fluka™, and Hydranal™. Partnering with over 3,000 customers across more than 120 countries and territories and supported by a robust portfolio of over 5,700 patents, Solstice’s approximately 4,000 employees worldwide drive innovation in materials science. For more information, visit Advanced Materials.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for routine testing, analysis, characterization for Solstice thermal interface materials, phase change materials, PE wax/emulsion/micro-powder, PCTFE and LBA foam, fiber, refrigerant and fine chemicals products.
- Develop and improve analytical and characterization methods to meet the growing needs of local and global R&D activities, customer support and business expansion.
- Provide solid lab data and comprehensive report to support Solstice sales, technical service and NPI, work closely with global analytical, technical, procurement and ISC teams for customer issue resolution, sourcing qualification and manufacturing supports.
- Keep up with latest development of analytical technologies and timely introduce new analytical capabilities, actively disclose the innovation and convert into IP.
- Build timely and efficient outsourcing service to minimize capability gap with cost saving.
- Take lab operation management including HSE, LIMS, SPC, Total Protective Maintenance (TPM), chemicals, capitol plan and expense budget.
Qualifications
- Master’s degree with a minimum of 6 years of lab experience, majoring in polymer chemistry and physics, material engineering, analytical or applied chemistry, PhD degree with 3+ yrs experience is preferred.
- Adequate analytical and characterization experiences in industries of TIM, PCM, SemiCon, fluoro-polymer, foam, fiber, plastic, coating and chemicals. Familiar with ASTM, GB, DIN, ISO standard and methods for the above industries.
- Understand the process of PE wax, PCM, foam, plastic, coating and fluoro-polymerization in R&D, scale-up andproduction.
- Skilled in thermal analysis (TGA, DSC, STA, TG-GC/MS, TG-FTIR), mechanical testing (TMA, DMA, tensile, compressive, flexural and peeling etc.), rheology (rotational, oscillation and capillary), spectrometry (Micro FTIR, Raman, UV-Vis and XRD), morphology (SEM/EDX, TEM, AFM and XPS) and other properties testing in viscosity , hardness, color, transmittance, thermal conductivity and resistance, etc. understanding the typically chemical analysis techniques as GC, GC-MS and elemental analysis.
- Good inter-personal communication and presentation skills, fluent in spoken and written English and Mandarin.
- Strong ability of learning new and quick problem solving.
- Teamwork, customer focus and result driven. Ability to work under pressure and self-motivated.
