Sr. Scientist

As the largest pureplay adhesives company in the world, H.B. Fuller’s (NYSE: FUL) innovative, functional coatings, adhesives and sealants enhance the quality, safety and performance of products people use every day. Founded in 1887, with 2023 revenue of $3.5 billion, our mission to Connect What Matters is brought to life by more than 7,000 global team members who collaborate with customers across more than 30 market segments in over 140 countries to develop highly specified solutions that enable customers to bring world-changing innovations to their end markets.

Position Title: Sr. Scientist

Location: Guangzhou, China

Position Overview

In general, a Senior Scientist leads R&D projects that generate new products, process or method concepts leveraging the Stage-Gate process discipline to meet market and business needs & reports to an R&D manager. In this position the ability to collaborate and communicate across disciplines, functions and regions is highly valued. Senior Scientist I coaches, mentors and guides research of technical colleagues.

Primary Responsibilities
• Planning and leading large-scale research and development projects, using project management discipline, design of experiment (DOE) methodologies and statistical analysis to draw conclusions and present solutions based on understanding of structure-property-performance relationships.
• Generating new product, process or method concepts within an area of specialty.
• Meeting research goals within time and budget constraints.
• Providing technical leadership of projects through the Stage-Gate process.
• Preparing and presenting reports to customers and business leaders.
• Participating in global or cross-functional project teams, collaborating across functional and regional boundaries.
• Coaching and mentoring others in the lab.
• Supporting operations to facilitate scale-up and efficient production of developed technologies.
• Fulfilling responsibilities as required by the Quality System for the site/business unit.
• Working in a safe and efficient manner.

Minimum Requirements

• Educational background: Master's degree or above, organic chemistry, polymer science or related chemistry specialty.
• Working experience: Strong R&D background on adhesives or water-based coating, 3 years’ experience or above are preferred
• Working language is English, multinational enterprise or overseas study are priority
• Understand chemistry related laws and regulations
• Understanding about adhesive industry, related working experience are priority