About you and this role
Dow Consumer Solution C&E (Consumer & Electronics) TS&D team is now open for a position as a Senior R&D/TS&D Technician in Shanghai Dow Center (SDC). This role will perform experimental operation in lab, working closely with C&E TS&Ds to provide technical support to electronics customers, in terms of application development, technical service, product development, product or process research, and trouble shooting. This role requires operation in a safe and efficient manner, working in a team closely and efficiently.
Responsibilities
•Follow operating discipline principles, procedures and practices to ensure safe and efficient operation in lab. Serve as the Environmental, Health & Safety advocate, ensures understanding and adherence to policies and procedures, willing to be the model of best safety practices, habits, and behaviors.
•Perform lab tests utilizing lab equipment and test capabilities including
- Materials (silicone, polyurethane, or hybrid) properties characterization like tensile/elongation, adhesion, dielectric strength, thermal conductivity, etc.
- Materials properties characterization, like physicochemical properties (dielectric properties, rheology, thermal properties, reliability properties…), compatibility with PCB/electric devices/plastics/…, and sustainability, etc.
- Apply and evaluate material performance on customers’ real electronic devices like PCB (printed circuit board), server CPU (Central Processing Unit), etc.
- Assembling, operating, maintaining and disassembling the equipment for materials’ evaluation.
•Develop experimental plans for review by TSD and execute approved plans by performing routine and non-standard tasks or procedures of higher complexity.
•Communicate scientific observations to project team or principal investigator and organize and prepare data tables and charts for inclusion in supported studies. Summarize, report and document the test results properly and clearly.
•Responsible for daily lab routine work including sample inventory, equipment maintenance/documentation, Lab 5S and EHS activity.
•Support TS&D to develop and improve test methods and capabilities.
Qualifications
•Associate or bachelor’s degree in chemistry, chemical engineering, polymer science, material science or related fields.
•5 years+ chemical lab experience with skills of chemical and polymer basic properties characterization, lab equipment operation and maintenance.
•Basic English written skills for technical report and daily email communication.
Your Skills
•Demonstrate good integrity, ownership and initiative of work
•Ability to prioritize work tasks, modify work practices and processes to achieve results and/or improve efficiency
•Good communication skills and teamwork spirit to ensure that the lab tests are clearly understood, performed, summarized, reported and documented timely and effectively
•Chemical Lab EHS and 5S relevant experience would be a plus
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