R&D- Applications Specialist

This position is responsible for providing application and technical data to Technical, Marketing and Sales groups of the Industrial Wood Division for new and existing products. This position has a major impact on new product development and application procedure development for specific market segments (we choose to compete in).

Job duties include contact with other employees and access confidential and proprietary information and/or other items of value, and such access may be supervised or unsupervised. The Company therefore has determined that a review of criminal history is necessary to protect the business and its operations and reputation and is necessary to protect the safety of the Company's staff, employees, and business relationships.

* Applications testing of new development projects, evaluation projects, or service projects with technical. This process includes multiple application types, testing, and writing the evaluation report on the product
* Product application demonstration for customer, sales, and technical service, both in house and at customer facilities
* Provide customer support as needed in the application component of customer service
* Evaluate new product development for the marketplace
* Recommend necessary changes to be made to products during development for best characteristics to technical
* Decide best possible equipment for test purposes
* Communicate clearly with Marketing and Sales on products developed
* Communicate customer needs for new products and changes needed to existing products to Technical and Marketing
* Evaluate competitive product benchmarks for any new product and carefully check on new competitive product announcements
* Provide application assistance in problem solving to sales and customers
* Conduct scheduled Preventative Maintenance of machines and equipment
* Sustain an area of cleanliness of individual machines and applications lab as a whole
* Assist and perform in maintenance and repairs of equipment and machines
* Assist in training the Training Department so best possible knowledge gets to customer
* Adhere to company safety standards at all times

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
* Must be legally authorized to work in the country for which you are applying for employment (without now or in the future needing sponsorship for employment work visa and/or permanent residence status).
* Must be at least 18 years of age.
* Must have at least a High School Diploma, GED, or equivalent
* Must be able, with or without reasonable accommodation, to determine the difference between colors so you can correctly tint paint to the colors desired by customers.
* Must have at least 5 years experience in the Paint/ Coatings industry.
* Must have the ability to troubleshoot problems and find solutions to Automation and Manufacturing scenarios.
* Minimum of 3 years Sales/Tech Rep and Manufacturing experience.
* Excellent painting skills and abilities.
* Knowledge of typical application equipment, processes and procedures.
* Proficient at Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
* High level of experience and knowledge in Automation and Manufacturing marketplace.
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
* Excellent planning and organizational skills.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
* Technical/Vocational Training
* 10 years of Automation and Manufacturing experience as a painter or operator.
* Sherwin-Williams experience as a Sales or Tech Rep

Travel Requirements: 20%

This position is not eligible for sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, including conversion to H-1B visa.