Senior Scientist (Home Care)

About Lubrizol

The Lubrizol Corporation, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is a specialty chemical company whose science delivers sustainable solutions to advance mobility, improve wellbeing and enhance modern life. Founded in 1928, Lubrizol owns and operates more than 100 manufacturing facilities, sales, and technical offices around the world and has about 8,000 employees. For more information, visit .

We value diversity in professional backgrounds and life experiences. By enabling a consistent, unbiased, and transparent recruitment process, Lubrizol seeks to create a positive experience for candidates so we can get to know them at their best. We recognize unique work and life situations and offer flexibility, ensuring our employees feel engaged and fulfilled in every aspect of life.

Job Locations: Brecksville, OH

Job type: Full-time

Type of role: Onsite

Join Our Thriving Team at Lubrizol as a Senior Scientist

Unleash Your Potential. At Lubrizol, we're transforming the specialty chemical industry and looking for exceptional talent to join us on this journey. If you are ready to join an international company with talent around the world and want to make a real impact, we want you on our team.

What You'll Do:

As a Senior Scientist in our Home Care segment, you will play a key role on cross-functional project teams, driving the development of innovative and sustainable next generation solutions. You will lead and support the technical, characterization, and development aspects of projects.

• Work collaboratively as a member of cross-functional project teams to develop, characterize, and introduce new solutions to the home care market.
• Explore new applications and enhanced formulation benefits with existing products in home care formulations.
• Develop, optimize, and standardize performance testing methodologies to demonstrate the value of Lubrizol solutions for home care applications.
• Evaluate experimental products and new formulations against benchmarks using standard protocols.
• Establish structure-function relationships for key performance properties.
• Utilize technical knowledge, data, statistical tools, etc., to solve technical challenges.
• Plan, conduct and manage scientific experiments: Accurately record, interpret, analyze, and draw conclusions from data.
• Document experimental results and prepare technical reports.
• Regularly communicate results and recommendations to project and leadership teams.
• Stay current on industry trends, product formats, regulations, etc.
• Identify new opportunities and conduct appropriate feasibility studies.
• Support marketing to develop technical literature for new products and applications concepts.
• Support Lubrizol’s IP strategy. Publish in technical journals, present at technical conferences as needed.
• Follow safe laboratory practices.

Skills That Make a Difference:

• Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Polymer Science, or related scientific field from an accredited college/university.
• 8+ years of experience formulating and testing home care ingredients/products.
• Knowledge of home care trends, product formats, and customer base
• Ability to work independently and cooperatively as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Self-starter, highly motivated, results-oriented with ability to manage multiple projects.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Track record of innovative thinking and technical accomplishments.
• Ability to work safely within Lubrizol laboratories.
• Ability to travel as needed (5%)

Perks and Rewards That Inspire:

• Competitive salary with performance-based bonus plans
• 401K Match plus Age Weighted Defined Contribution
• Competitive medical, dental & vision offerings
• Health Savings Account
• Paid Holidays, Vacation, Parental Leave
• Flexible work environment

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Ready for your next career step? Apply today and let's shape the future together!

It’s an exciting time to be part of Lubrizol. Lubrizol is not staying put. We are continually learning and evolving. Our passion delivers our success — not only for Lubrizol but for those who count on us every day: our employees, customers, and communities.

We work with a relentless commitment to operate safely and responsibly, keeping safety, sustainability, ethics and compliance at the forefront of everything we do. The well-being of our employees, customers and communities is paramount to our culture and in the way we approach our work.

As a diverse, global team, we work together to solve some of the world’s most pressing challenges. We impact everyday lives through science only Lubrizol can deliver, and we never stop pushing to do it better.

One of the founding principles of The Lubrizol Corporation more than 90 years ago was treating every employee with dignity and respect. That same commitment is only stronger today.

More than that, we are committed to providing an environment where every employee can be the best they can be, no matter their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic.

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