R&d Scientist - Compounding Job

Reaching far beyond your discoveries!

Innovative and durable solutions

Join the Cerdato Center ! : Located in Serquigny, in the heart of the Haute-Normandie region, the Cerdato is one of Arkema’s thirteen research and development centers in the world and the first in Europe dedicated to high-performance materials.

For 40 years now, researchers at the Cerdato have been creating, improving, and developing polymer materials and optimizing their manufacturing processes to respond to market developments. From automobiles to cosmetics, along with sports and leisure, electronics/electricity, packaging, energy, the petroleum industry, and composites for aeronautics, all these markets benefit from research and development at the Cerdato.

Mission Details : Your main missions will be :

• Understand the R&D needs for the high performance polymers business unit and provide competitive solutions to customer’s requirements in a timely manner taking into account industrial constraints.
• Lead R&D projects to develop new and more sustainable materials
• Design and lead scientific experiments necessary to further your projects
• Ensure technology and intellectual property review on your research area

You will also regularly present your work to the project team and business leaders.

Required Profile : To be successful in this role, you have :

• successfully completed your PhD in polymer science, especially on the structure-properties relationship (rheology, thermal analysis, mechanical characterizations)
• ideally at least 5 years of experience in polymer compounding and formulation
• leadership qualities and be able to lead your cross-functionnal team to further the projects while insuring high safety and quality standards
• Excellent written and verbal skills in English and be willing to learn French
• Joining _ Arkema means being part of a Group enjoying sustained growth that in little more than a decade has built up an exemplary achievement record, setting high ambitions for itself and for its employees.
• All our job opportunities are open to people with disabilities at equal merit or with equal skill levels._