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Danaher Corporation Director of Chemistry in Port Washington, New York
Find what drives you on a team with a more than 75-year history of discovery, determination, and innovation. As a global leader in high-tech filtration, separation, and purification, Pall Corporation thrives on helping our customers solve their toughest challenges. Our products serve diverse, global customer needs across a wide range of applications to advance health, safety and environmentally responsible technologies. For the exponentially curious, Pall is a place you can thrive and amplify your impact on the world.
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Director of Chemistry
This role is ideal for a highly motivated thought leader who has had both professional career focus and academic background with emphasis in Polymer Chemistry Synthesis, Membrane Science and Surface Modifications. This Director of Polymer Chemistry would be a people leader with solid scientific achievements as evidenced through journal publications, patents, and technical speaking engagements on polymer chemistry and surface modification.
This position is part of the Global R&D Organization and will be located in Port Washington, NY for Pall Corporation.
In this role, you will have the opportunity to:
Provide technical leadership to a team of highly skilled and motivated scientists, drive innovation, develop strategy and lead chemistry research that enables state of the art functional chemistry, polymer processing and membrane modification for filtration applications.
Collaborate and support the design of next generation filtration membrane processes and products that meet application needs for functional compatibility and removal efficiencies.
Develop methods to enable New Product Development (NPD) using novel functional chemistry.
Lead and give technical direction to scientist on polymer synthesis and characterization
Act as a mentor and coach to solve problems and create novel functional chemistry platform for next generation products from proof of concept to scale up.
Interacts with global cross-functional members from R&D, Engineering, Technology Transfer, Marketing and Manufacturing and find opportunities to optimize Pall products and processes
The essential requirements of the job include:
PhD in Chemistry, Polymer Chemistry, organic Chemistry or Material Science with 7+ years of R&D industry experience with a clear and established track record in functional polymers chemistry/synthesis and organic/inorganic/materials chemistry. Good understanding of organic/inorganic surface modification/functionalization
At least 5 years of technical leadership and direct people management experience with teams consisting of R&D scientists and engineers.
Knowledge and expertise in materials research and process development of high temperature polymer materials, fluoropolymer chemistry systems, organometallic chemistry, and surface modification of polymeric/porous membranes or organic substrates is highly desirable.
Good understanding of physical organic and coordination/chelation chemistry. Excellent record of impactful delivery of chemistry concepts into top projects. Proven ability to create and drive technology vision.
Experience in leading R&D teams for technology and product development is preferred
Experience in filtration is highly desirable
Pall Corporation, a Danaher company, offers a broad array of comprehensive, competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether it’s a health care program or paid time off, our programs contribute to life beyond the job. Check out our benefits at danaherbenefitsinfo.com.
The salary range for this role is $141K-$200K. This is the range that we in good faith believe is the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.
This job is also eligible for bonus/incentive pay.
We offer comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.
Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.
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