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RESEARCH SCIENTIST - POSTDOCTORAL

Employer
Sappi Fine Paper NA
Location
Westbrook, Maine
Salary
$80,000 annually plus benefits
Closing date
Feb 14, 2021

Job Details

Major Job Responsibilities:

The role involves technology innovations for both product development and improvement. The incumbent will use his or her knowledge and experience to design and prototype new cellulose based environmentally sustainable products as well as to improve current products. Applicant must be an innovative, highly capable scientist/engineer, with the ability to fulfill the following accountabilities:

  • Conduct all activities with a focus on maintaining and improving a safe work environment.
  • Design and prototype cellulose based environmentally sustainable new products for specified applications.
  • Develop new technologies to improve qualities of current products and reduce their costs.
  • Keep up to date with developments in the field and identify opportunities for new technologies development.

Education and Skills Requirements:

  • Advanced degree in science or engineering. Prior experience and knowledge with cellulose and paper coating are preferred. Familiarity with polymer science and processing technologies is a plus.
  • Candidate should have demonstrated past innovative accomplishments.
  • Must be able to work in a cross-functional atmosphere to provide support and technical leadership for strategic projects.
  • Demonstrated ability to learn new areas of technology so as to contribute to successful completion of projects.
  • Demonstrated ability to prioritize development work and assess feasibility.
  • Knowledge and use of statistical computer tools such as Minitab, Statistica, Design Expert and Excel functions desired.
  • US citizens and permanent residents only.

Company

About Sappi North America, Inc.
Sappi North America, Inc., headquartered in Boston, is a market leader in converting wood fiber into superior products that customers demand worldwide. The success of our four diversified businesses – high-quality Graphic Papers, Pulp, Packaging and Specialty Papers and Casting and Release Papers – is driven by strong customer relationships, best-in-class people and advantaged assets, products and services. Our high-quality Graphic Papers, including McCoy, Opus, Somerset, and Flo, are the key platform for premium magazines, catalogs, books, direct mail and high-end print advertising. We are a leading manufacturer of Dissolving Pulp with our Verve brand, a sustainable fiber, which is used in a wide range of products, including textile fibers and household goods. We deliver sustainable Packaging and Specialty Papers for luxury packaging and folding carton applications with our single-ply packaging brands, Spectro and Proto, and for the food and label industries with our specialty papers, LusterPrint and LusterCote. We are also one of the world's leading suppliers of Casting and Release Papers with our Ultracast, PolyEx and Classics lines for the automotive, fashion and engineered films industries. Customers rely on Sappi for high technical, operational and market expertise; products and services delivered with consistently high quality and reliability; and, state-of-the-art and cost-competitive assets and innovative spirit.

 

 

 

Sappi North America is a subsidiary of Sappi Limited (JSE), a global company headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa, with more than 12,000 employees and manufacturing operations on three continents in seven countries and customers in over 150 countries.

 

Company info
Telephone
207-329-7241
Location
179 John Roberts Road
South Portland
ME
04106
US

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