Core Responsibilities
As a team member of the R&D team, the Formulation Process Development Engineer is required to make key decisions in regard to their respective research projects that will have both immediate and long-term impact to the Corteva Agriscience Crop Protection business. Curiosity, critical thinking and collaboration are required to be successful in this role. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Job Responsibilities
Designing and conducting research activities to enable successful launch of crop protection formulated products: (70%)
- Working with Formulation Scientists to plan and coordinate appropriate trials to determine scale-up feasibility
- Using Design of Experiment (DoE) to design and conduct experiments to understand key process variables that affect product performance, quality, stability and manufacturability.
- Important properties include, viscosity, particle size, bulk density, dispersion time, suspensibility, emulsion stability, etc.
- Formulation types include water-dispersible granules (WDG), oil-dispersions (OD), capsule suspensions (CS), soluble liquids (SL), emulsifiable concentrates (EC), suspension concentrates (SC), baits etc. of new and existing active molecules
- Conducting research and testing to implement practical solutions to formulation manufacturing challenges
- Coordinating and planning cross-functional samples for reactive chemistry, packaging compatibility, application studies, material compatibility, etc.
- Communicating data-based recommendations to stakeholders to enable successful product launch
- Documenting key process considerations and parameters in technical reports
Partnering with multidisciplinary teams to plan and support process demonstration trials, provide manufacturing plant support and launch new formulations (20%)
- Developing trial plans for manufacturing scale trials
- Providing startup support for newly launched formulations
- Drafting documentation to capture and transfer learnings from DOE and plant trial
- Troubleshooting process issues and providing solutions to manufacturing
Producing field trial, regulatory, applications and other experimental samples at pilot scale (10%)
- Consolidating sample requests and coordinating procurement of raw materials to produce them
Education:
- BS, MS or PhD in chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, material science, or chemistry, plus 4-6 years of relevant industrial or R&D experience (preferred).
Required Qualifications:
- Analyzing and interpreting data, report-writing, and clearly communicating data-based process steps and scale-up parameter recommendations
- Fostering a strong commitment to safety and environmental responsibility
- Experience in Formulation or chemical process scale-up and/or process development
- Capable of setting up pilot scale laboratory equipment
- Ability to work independently and drive projects to completion
- Strong interpersonal and leadership skills
- Ability to successfully partner with team members and stakeholders from multiple backgrounds
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Ability to deliver presentations that distill complex ideas and proactively communicate results and progress to technical teams, supervision, management, and business leadership
- Ability to travel up to 10%
Benefits – How We’ll Support You:
- Numerous development opportunities offered to build your skills
- Be part of a company with a higher purpose and contribute to making the world a better place
- Health benefits for you and your family on your first day of employment
- Four weeks of paid time off and two weeks of well-being pay per year, plus paid holidays
- Excellent parental leave which includes a minimum of 16 weeks for mother and father
- Future planning with our competitive retirement savings plan and tuition reimbursement program
- Learn more about our total rewards package here - Corteva Benefits
- Check out life at Corteva! www.linkedin.com/company/corteva/life
Are you a good match? Apply today! We seek applicants from all backgrounds to ensure we get the best, most creative talent on our team.