Overview
Join our innovative research and development team as a Research and Development Chemist, where you will play a pivotal role in advancing customer personal care formulas and products from concept to commercialization. This dynamic position offers the opportunity to work at the forefront of formulation and manufacturing processes. As a key contributor, you will collaborate across cross-functional teams to drive product development projects that meet regulatory requirements and market needs.
Typical Duties and Responsibilities
- Develop new personal care product formulations (e.g., cleansers, creams, lotions, serums, hair products)
- Modify and optimize existing formulas to improve stability, efficacy, or cost-effectiveness
- Ensure compatibility between active ingredients, emulsifiers, preservatives, and fragrance systems. Must conduct crash stability on all formulations.
- Ensure formulations comply with FDA, EU, and other regulatory bodies.
- Work closely with the process engineering team to scale formulations from lab to production.
- Collaborate with clients to develop formulations based on their briefs. Reformulate based on client feedback, cost targets and ingredient preferences
- Interact with vendors to obtain information on raw materials to troubleshoot formulas.
- Keep up with personal care industry trends, consumer demands, and competitor launches
- Attend trade shows and meet with suppliers for new technologies
- Follow GLP/GMP and notebook protocol.
- Maintain the laboratory in clean organized condition.
- Assist process engineers in first manufacture of production batches.
- Adjust simple parameters for manufacture of products (such as pH, viscosity, color, etc…).
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Physical Requirements
- Ability to lift and pull a minimum of 25 lbs.
- Requires walking and standing for lengthy periods of time.
- Requires bending, twisting, pulling, pushing and climbing of ladders and stairs.
- Capable of climbing steps and retrieving material from shelves.
Work Experience and Education Requirements
- Excellent English written and verbal communication skills.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry, or related field, is required. Master’s Degree or PhD preferred.
- 3 or more years’ experience with cosmetics.
- Knowledge of computer applications.
Pay range and compensation package - 75k-100k yearly salary.
Pay: $75,000.00 - $100,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Flexible schedule
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Application Question(s):
- How many years have you worked with clients to develop personal care product formulations?
Experience:
- Chemistry, manufacturing & controls: 3 years (Required)
Work Location: In person
