Senior Scientist
Posted on: 8 Apr 2025
Rochester Hills, MI
Job Description
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SENIOR SCIENTIST – GLOBAL PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
ROCHESTER HILLS, MICHIGAN
As a member of the Global Product Development team, the Senior Scientist will be responsible for formulating, applying, testing, and managing leather finish formulations in order to obtain customer(s) product approvals. The senior scientist will work with Product Development Engineers to ensure leather finishes are meeting color, gloss, and lab performance requirements as well as providing production facilities with the tools and information to make the finished product. This role will interact with raw material suppliers to evaluate and test new raw materials in leather finish formulations.
The Role:
Your work will include, but not be limited to:
Formulate, apply, and test leather finishes on both laboratory and production scale.
Manage leather finish formulations globally for specific OEMs and ensure they are meeting performance requirements.
Provide technical support to Product Development Engineers and Production Finishing Managers
Advantages of working at Lear in the Global Product Development group:
Engagement with the technical, launch, operations, sales and design teams
Relationship building with global suppliers of leather finishing raw materials.
Your Qualifications:
Minimum of a B.S. in Chemistry, Polymer Chemistry, or related field.
Coating formulation experience (3-4 years)
Laboratory experience (5 or more years)
Bonus If You Have:
Leather and/or leather finishing experience
Project management experience
Problem solving experience
DOE – Design of Experiments
LEAR
Southfield, MI
Lear Corporation designs, develops, engineers, manufactures, assembles, and supplies automotive seating, and electrical distribution systems and related components for automotive original equipment manufacturers worldwide. It operates in two segments, Seating and E-Systems. The Seating segment offers leather and fabric products, seat trim covers, recliner mechanisms, seat tracks and foams, seat structures and mechanisms, and headrests for automobiles and light trucks, compact cars, and sport utility vehicles; and heating and cooling systems. The E-Systems segment offers electrical distribution systems that route electrical signals and manage electrical power within the vehicle for traditional vehicle architectures, as well as high power and hybrid electric systems.
This segment’s products comprise wire harnesses, terminals and connectors, and junction boxes; and electronic control modules, such as body control modules, smart junction boxes, gateway and wireless control modules, lighting control modules, and audio domain controllers and amplifiers. It also provides electrification products comprising charging systems that include onboard charging modules, cord set charging equipment, and wireless charging systems; battery electronics, which comprise battery disconnect units, cell monitoring supervisory systems, and integrated total battery control modules; and other power management modules, including converter and inverter systems.
In addition, this segment offers cybersecurity software; EXO advanced vehicle positioning for automated and autonomous driving applications; roadside modules that communicate real-time traffic information; and cellular protocols for vehicle connectivity, as well as Connexus connectivity products. Further, it provides wireless systems, such as passive entry, remote keyless entry, and dual range/function remote keyless entry systems. The company was founded in 1917 and is headquartered in Southfield, Michigan.
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IndustryEngineering
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No. of Employees169, 000
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