Analytical Lab Manager (PhD Scientist)

Job Description

Senior Analytical Scientist,

Analytical Lab Manager

About Us

FutureFuel Chemical Company (FFCC) is a specialty and fine chemical manufacturing facility with almost fifty years of plant history. FFCC has three business segments : custom / toll manufacturing, performance chemicals, and biodiesel. FFCC serves a wide variety of markets including pharmaceutical intermediates and products, nylon and polyester polymers, cleaning products, agricultural products, paints and coating, and fuels and energy.

About The Position

As a Senior Analytical Scientist and Analytical Lab Manager, you will have overall responsibility for the operation and functions of the Analytical Lab. You and your staff will have primary responsibilities to provide analytical services to support new business opportunities, new product development projects, manufacturing process improvement, production troubleshooting, and product quality. They will develop new analytical methods, improve existing methods, ensure the accuracy, precision, and robustness of instruments / methods, communicate routinely with customers and personnel in manufacturing, product and process development and commercial. The expectations also include supporting the implementation of and compliance with laboratory quality systems / standards; ISO9001, BQ9000, GMP and others. The ideal candidate is a creative PhD chemist with successful experience in leadership, teambuilding, process management, and a business growth focus. No two days are ever exactly the same, and the variety of chemistry is unmatched.

Job Specifics

Responsible for classical and instrumental methods of analyses; titrations, physical, chemical, and thermal properties, and environmental and biodiesel sample testing. Instruments and test methods include but are not limited to the following :

• Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC)
• Thermal Gravimetric Analysis (TGA)
• Bomb Calorimeters
• Total Organic Analyzers
• Auto titrators including Karl Fischer
• Viscometers
• Density meters
• Flash point analyzers
• Cloud / pour point analyzer
• Moisture balance analyzers and various types of ovens
• Rancimat for oxidation stability testing
• Perform NMR analyses as backup for NMR chemist

Responsibilities include the following :

General and additional responsibilities include the following :

Required Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

About Working At FutureFuel

About Batesville

Batesville, Arkansas is a small rural town of about 10,000 on the foothills of the Ozark Mountains with excellent area schools, a University of Arkansas 2-year college and Lyon College, a highly rated Liberal Arts College. We are a strong outdoor community with the White River, nearby lakes, parks, bike trails, dog parks, walking trails, excellent soccer and baseball / softball facilities, a thriving community and aquatics center and Historic Main Street, and close access to Blanchard Springs Caverns, The Ozark Folk Center, and the Buffalo River, one of the longest undammed rivers west of the Mississippi and the nations first National River designated by Congress in 1972 to preserve its clean water and other outstanding values. Batesville has a regional health care center, Community Theatre and Arts Council, a strong Chamber of Commerce, Mark Martin NASCAR Museum, and a regional historic museum. Visit Batesville at cityofbatesville.com.

Applicants must have the legal right to work in the US without restriction (Green Card or Citizenship). Interested parties should send resumes to stacygunderman@ffcmail.com. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

We thank all applicants in advance for their interest. All applicants will be carefully reviewed; however only those who are being considered for an interview will be contacted. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will receive consideration for employment.

For more information or to apply, contact Stacy Gunderman at stacygunderman@ffcmail.com.