Process Chemist

Elevance™ Renewable Sciences, Inc., a new specialty chemical company based on groundbreaking, proven technology, is harnessing the potential of natural oils to produce a portfolio of commercial products across multiple markets. Elevance was formed to institutionalize work started in 2004 in collaboration between Cargill, one of the world’s largest producers of agricultural oils, and Materia, a leading edge technology organization leveraging patents from the California Institute of Technology (CalTech), to catalyze the commercial production of renewable chemicals. 

Elevance is backed by TPG, and is a high growth business with a leading market and IP position. We are the leader in using renewable or natural oils (e.g., soybean, canola, corn and sunflower oils) to create an extraordinarily wide variety of specialty chemical products using a broad range of proprietary, patent protected technologies, including Nobel Prize winning metathesis.

The complexity of the business model stems from commercializing multiple products through multiple channels into a wide spectrum of premium markets and end use applications. While Elevance’s business model incorporates a relatively complex supply chain, the manufacturing platform operates within a low temperature and low pressure envelope to facilitate scale-up.

Elevance begins with a revenue base of approximately $20 Million and is projected to scale to over $1 Billion in 6 years and directly addresses a $20 Billion Market.

We have strong IP protection, real revenue and catalyst technologies which are such that they create a compelling growth opportunity.

We are currently looking to add to staff a Process Chemist to be located at Elevance’s suburban Chicago area headquarters in Bolingbrook, IL.

Responsibilities include:

• Providing process chemistry support to the manufacturing sites.
• Providing technical leadership as well as championing development and implementation of innovative and leading edge technology.
• Participating in the technology portfolio management process to prioritize process improvements including assessment of benefits and risk.
• Demonstrating the ability to evaluate opportunities, utilize problem solving skills, and has a proven track record of providing innovative solutions which add business value.
• Providing solid judgment in the economic assessment of new processes or process improvements.
• Providing expert input into the assessment of competitor technologies, capabilities, and impact.
• Seeking out and sharing best practices: Always looks for broader applications, benchmarks with intent to find best in class practices, leverages personal networks (internal and external) to add value.
• Fostering collaboration broadly across the function and broader organization.
• Writing and co-authoring invention disclosures and patent proposals that protect the core technology and ensures its future trajectory.
  

Qualifications:

• PhD Chemistry required.
• A minimum of 15 years successful work experience in technology or manufacturing with demonstrated delivery of value is required.
• In-depth technical knowledge and understanding of the metathesis chemistry preferred.
• Exposure to a wide variety of chemical process technologies is preferred
• Possessing a high level of process chemistry expertise and is recognized as an authority within the business and industry.
• Possessing a solid understanding of both business and technical objectives and strategies.
• Demonstrating solid technical leadership and networking skills.
• Demonstrating HSE leadership which includes an understanding of the HSE requirements in the design or modification of processes.
• Effectively using informal power and influence to achieve results (as opposed to formal authority).

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