Product Development Chemist — Lubrication Technology

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.

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 Product Development Chemist - Lubrication Technology to be located in our lab in Elevance's suburban Chicago area headquarters in Bolingbrook, IL.

Responsibilities will include:

• Performing the synthesis, purification and identification of target compounds.

• Demonstrating competency in many aspects of practical organic chemistry and safe work practices.
• Effectively communicating results and issues within the projects to the management team.
• Operate and maintain standard organic chemistry laboratory equipment.

• Develop technical projects that design and commercialize differentiated formulated products supporting our business strategy including formulations addressing changes in performance standards, raw materials, and reduce complexity.
• Collaborate with commercial team to deliver physical properties and performance data supporting product claims.
• Collaborate with Supply Chain management to support on-going product production, quality control and packaging.

• Demonstrates a strong knowledge of problem solving methodologies and application to complex technical projects. Defines options and makes clear recommendations.
• Develops detailed project plans, sets and delivers critical milestones. Manages several complex projects simultaneously.

Qualifications:

• 3 – 5 years prior industry experience in lubricant technology development and a proven track record of success. .
• PhD in Organic Chemistry is required
• Analyze and identify compounds using a range of modern separation and spectroscopic techniques.
• Have excellent communication skills with the ability to interface across all levels of management and all functions, and to develop effective working relationships