Chemist - R&D

We are Bentley Labs, a cutting-edge formulation and manufacturing partner to the World’s Best Beauty Brands! Our product formulation and production capabilities are wide-ranging and distinctive – with innovative, exciting products across skin care, bath and body, hair, and lip categories. Over the past 16 years, the Bentley team has grown to include some of the industry’s brightest stars. Our diverse and talented group are ever and truly a unit —working together toward an all-consuming vision to be the best.

In the past 2 years, our formulation team has won over 20 industry awards for best products in wide range of categories. We launch over 200 new products a year, and growing rapidly and seeking new R&D Chemists to join our team! As a valued member of our R&D team, this position will have hands-on responsibility to work with our formulation chemists to produce customer-winning formulas for skin care, sun care and bath & body care products including but not limited to creams, gels, lotions, serums, anhydrous and surfactant systems.

This is a place where we create products that matter, relationships that last, and where ambition is supported and rewarded! We know you work hard and we want you to be successful. What will we do for you? Let us help you with tuition reimbursement. Don’t know something? Let us send you to classes. Come on in and we will show you what else we have to offer you!

Who you are…you celebrate your success and others too. You focus on the right solution with each customer. Your passion for providing outstanding service contributes to our high level of customer satisfaction. Building relationships is your strong suit. You like to have fun at work too! Loud laughing encouraged.

Main Responsibilities

The R&D Chemist is a key member of the company’s Research and Development Team. The primary responsibilities required for this role are:

• Review new Product Development Requests (PDR’s) and collaborate with SE’s for additional clarification; assign tentative project completion dates.
• Prepare lab batches of formulas needed for submitting samples for customer analysis within lab schedule, and reformulating / resubmitting them based on customer’s feedback.
• Maintain detailed and organized lab notebook with detailed observations while making lab batch.
• Develop detailed lab scale process for success including order of addition, critical raw materials and processing parameters, bench standard and benchmark, and lab scale preliminary specification and test results
• Work closely and collaboratively with lab technicians, to teach, coordinate and collaborate on projects leading to well-planned and executed bench work and successful sample submissions
• Perform and monitor stability with lab technician, utilizing approved stability protocol, and re-formulate if initial formula is unstable.
• Meet with raw material vendors to learn about new technologies and new raw materials that can be utilized to create/improve Bentley’s innovative technology offerings.
• Collaborate as a key team member across the R&D department, contributing innovative ideas, expertise, knowledge, experiences with strong team spirit, and pride in organization’s contribution to the company
• Perform/Monitor calibration and validation of all lab instruments with Lab Technicians.
• Maintain clean, safe and well-organized lab working area.
  
  

Required Outcomes

• Stable and compliant personal care, cosmetics and OTC products
• Timely shipment of lab samples to customers/marketing/testing facilities
• Documentation of detailed observations and specifications
• Learning of new technology via researching new raw materials and processes
• Establishing preliminary product specifications and detailed lab process
  
  

Education And Experience Requirements

• BS in Chemistry
• 3 + years of R&D experience in Personal Care
• Excellent lab processing techniques and data management
• Must have strong analytical, communication and organizational skills
• Must have a bias for action and initiative to collaborate and contribute value to the overall R&D effort

We are Bentley Labs, a cutting-edge formulation and manufacturing partner to the World's Best Beauty Brands! Our product formulation and production capabilities are wide-ranging and distinctive – with innovative, exciting products across skin care, bath and body, hair, and lip categories. Over the past 16 years, the Bentley team has grown to include some of the industry's brightest stars. Our diverse and talented group are ever and truly a unit —working together toward an all-consuming vision to be the best.