Advanced Lead Researcher – Membrane Chemistry and Process

Company Description

Veolia Group is a global leader in environmental services, operating across all five continents with nearly 218,000 employees. Specializing in water, energy, and waste management, Veolia Group designs and implements innovative solutions for decarbonization, depollution, and resource regeneration, supporting communities and industries in their ecological transformation. Within this framework, Veolias Water Technology Business brings together a dedicated team of experienced professionals committed to tackling the worlds most complex challenges related to water scarcity, quality, productivity, and energy. Together, we pursue a shared mission to create a more sustainable future.

Job Description

Job Summary

This position advances Veolias GreenUp goals of promoting sustainability and improving the environment by reducing water usage and carbon emissions within our company and for our customers.

The position is based in the Technology or R&D department in Minnetonka, MN, and also involves travel to other Veolia and customers sites that will test or implement our new membrane separation products.

The work is mostly on site, and requires working with internal and external manufacturing and project teams as well as Technologists. The position reports to the Manager of Membrane Technology and works largely independently with the manager while helping to build a new team and membrane product line. The job involves strong chemical formulation and synthesis skills, some chemical and mechanical engineer skills, manufacturing and production engineering aptitude, as well as interest in research and product development.

Key Characteristics:

• Plans and execute projects with attention to budget and schedule

• Effective communicator who excels at working with external customers and internal stakeholders to overcome challenges and achieve goals.

• A team leader who can work independently, but also reaches out to others in the organization when expertise or resources are needed.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Lead process development and scale-up of new membrane processes from lab to pilot to production scale.

• Transfer membrane processes to external toll manufacturers, involving up to 20% travel.

• Synthesize custom polymers for use in separation membrane and work on sourcing novel polymers to custom or toll manufacturers

• Fabricate membrane module prototypes, develop efficient and effective manufacturing

processes, source materials used in module fabrication.

• Design, build and use test equipment for separation membranes.

• Develop test procedures to characterize membrane quality for specific applications.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Knowledge: .

o Fundamentals of Chemistry, Materials Science, Chemical Engineering

o Fundamentals of Membrane Science.

• Skills:

o Good communication and presentation skills

o Chemical or polymer synthesis

o Project management acumen

o Manufacturing engineering and process development

o Adept at working with chemicals and equipment used in membrane manufacturing and

module construction

• Abilities:

o Safely and comfortably works with chemicals and equipment from lab scale up to

industrial scale.

o Creativity in design and implementation of new chemical processes

o Mechanical aptitude in building, troubleshooting and servicing equipment

Qualifications

Education & Experience

Required:

• BS, MS or PhD in Chemistry, Materials Science, Membrane Science or similar area.

• Industrial work experience for BS or MS candidates of 5-10 years, PhD candidates without

industrial work experience will be considered

Preferred:

• Project management experience

• Industrial experience

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

As an inclusive company, Veolia is committed to diversity and gives equal consideration to all applications, without discrimination.

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