Technology Development Manager

• Provide technical support to commercial teams through product development efforts and customer directed research programs
• Design, execute and record product development of new refrigeration and industrial lubricants
• Ability to interpret analytic data from a variety of techniques (NMR, IR, GC, etc) for additive and base oil identification
• Perform independent research in a multidisciplinary environment on refrigeration and industrial compressor lubricant challenges
• Actively participate in project review meetings for refrigeration and industrial lubricant projects
• Provide technical support to sales, customers, and stakeholders as needed
• Initiate and organize laboratory work to meet objectives, timeline and budget
• Participate in industry conferences and symposiums as required
• Develop an understanding of intellectual property landscape and track pertinent literature
• Ability to maintain an accurate clear legal record of experimental results and provide written summaries and interpretation of results
• Interpret and communicate performance testing results to internal stakeholders and customers
• Build relationships with global commercial and technical teams
• Anticipate, determine, and understand customer needs and market trends and apply product technologies to satisfy those requirements.
• Understand and comply with all applicable internal corporate and external health, safety, and environmental policies, act consistently with corporate standards of integrity
• Provide ownership of laboratory HSES to ensure local HSES regulations and codes are met as well as corporate HSES requirements.
• Establish HSES management and operating procedures, ensure solid implementation in the lab
• Organize to formulate and approve the implementation of HSES training plan in the lab
• Supervise and inspect the safety works, eliminate the hidden danger of lab activities
• Drive Continuous Improvement to achieve HSES metrics target as listed below

• Zero recordable injury incidents
• Zero reportable environmental release
• Zero occupational hazard incidents
• Zero significant security and cybersecurity incidents

• Ph.D. in Chemistry preferred and 5+ years of experience in lubricants (refrigeration lubricants preferred) and lubricant additives; M.S. in Chemistry required and 8+ years of experience in lubricants (refrigeration lubricants preferred).
• Knowledge of refrigeration lubricant formulations and refrigeration lubricant technologies through laboratory experience
• Experience in chemical synthesis
• Experience in synthesis of lubricant basestocks, thickeners or additives
• Experience with HVAC system OEM and/or key raw material suppliers
• Knowledge and experience of tribology and tribological testing
• Knowledge of thermodynamic modeling of gas/liquid refrigeration systems
• Knowledge of phase behavior, equations of state and their practical application
• Excellent decision-making, problem solving skills and the ability to interpret and translate experimental results into customer needs
• Ability to work independently and cooperatively in a multidisciplinary environment
• Strong organizational, interpersonal, written and oral communication skills
• Fluent in English both written and verbal
• May require frequent domestic and international travel
• Requires use of appropriate PPE, Personal Protective Equipment, to fulfill safety requirements

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