R&D Co-Op - Fall

Rust-Oleum

Posted 2 months ago

Internship

Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin

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Smart Summary

Responsibilities

The intern will assist in creating paint sample batches, conducting performance testing, and documenting experimental data. They will also support production operations through the scale-up process and batch adjustments.

Qualifications

You are a current undergraduate student pursuing a degree in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, or a comparable scientific field. You will be involved in creating sample batches of paint, conducting performance testing, documenting data, and assisting with production scale-up.

Must Have Skills for ATS

Chemistry

Chemical Engineering

Coatings

Formula Development

Performance Testing

Data Documentation

Production Support

Scale-up Process

Job Description

Job Title: R&D Co-Op 

Schedule: Monday - Friday, 8:00am-4:30pm / Full Time / 40hrs/wk 

Pay: $25.00/hr 

What to expect:  

  • Job Duties: Summary: Co-op/Intern students are treated as coatings chemists in training, with a focus on professional growth and skills development in a teamwork-based environment. Students work on and learn about a variety of product types from metal to concrete coatings and decorative to high performance systems. Interaction with chemical suppliers, marketing brand managers, and manufacturing operations is incorporated with increasingly complex projects throughout the co-op career. They will train cross functionally under the different product platforms. 
  • Typical work assignments include Creating sample batches of paint for formula development, conducting performance testing on lab samples and competitive products, documenting data and interpreting/reporting results and assisting with production support through the scale-up process and batch adjustments. 
  • Required Skills: Current undergraduate student pursuing Chemistry, Chemical Engineering or a comparable scientific degree. 

Rust-Oleum is an equal-opportunity employer. Employment selection and related decisions are made without regard to sex, race, age, disability, religion, national origin, color, or other protected class.

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Rust-Oleum

Solving challenges is the very foundation of who we are. After all, in the beginning, our founder, sea captain Robert Fergusson, didn’t particularly care about paint. He just wanted to keep his ship intact. That’s why, when he noticed that an accidental splash of fish oil had stopped the relentless spread of corrosion on his rusty metal deck, he immediately recognized it for what it was: A valuable solution. The same passion that drove the Captain to spend his next few years creating the world’s first rust-preventative paint still drives us today. When we see a problem, we work diligently until we've perfected a solution—which has led to some of the most cutting-edge, durable and innovative products in the industry. If you've got a surface you need to protect or a look you want to transform, you've come to the right place. We have a coating for every challenge. Welcome to Rust-Oleum, home of trusted quality—and powerful solutions—since 1921. __ Rust-Oleum Corporation is a subsidiary of RPM International, Inc.
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