Scientist

Date: 2025

Would you like to work for a company where ambitious spirits and creativity thrive? L&L Products offers a culture that grows talent and flourishes with innovation. It is a place where you are encouraged to take control of your own professional development by using L&L’s extensive training opportunities to craft solutions to the industry’s hottest problems. Here is where quality of work, product and relationships are a priority. 

L&L Products is built on the basic philosophy that good people working together, listening to each other’s ideas with an open mind and everyone wanting to do a little better each day will ensure our success. Our existence is full of wise principles, sacrifices, and victories, laughs, and lasting memories that tell exactly who we are. How we came to be the great company, the caring family that we are today.

• Create new technologies and problem solve in adhesive materials and processes through a technically fundamental approach. 
• Independently plan and lead execution of development and testing protocols to explore modes of problem solution or routes of new product or technology creation.   
• Maintain and expand expertise in a set of scientific areas, including physical, chemical, analytical, or formulation principles and methods. 
• Help develop mechanistic understanding of current products and process by determining appropriate experimental and research plans.
• Cultivate global collaboration in the internal and external scientific community. 
• Develop and protect intellectual property. 
• Support patent activities through filing activities, patent surveillance, and defense of our intellectual property. 
• Serve as a champion of safety practices in the laboratory and office environments.
• May provide leadership to technicians and specialists.  Very competent with self-directed work.

• Construction, maintenance, and safety responsibilities for laboratory workspace and equipment.

   

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities: 

• BS with 6+ years of product development experience, MS with 3+ years of product development experience, or PhD in the sciences, typically in chemistry or material science. 
• Select skills in technical/scientific disciplines, as required. 
• Very adept at maintaining and improving safety requirements in the laboratory and work space.
• Versed in scientific methods and laboratory apparatus.
• Select skills in technical/scientific disciplines, as required. 
• Versed in scientific methods, laboratory apparatus, and communication skills.

• Performance Driven
• Communication
• Customer Centric
• Passion/Values
• Innovation
• Safety/Sustainability
• Collaboration
• Expertise
• Occasional lifting up to 30 lbs.
• Occasionally carrying up to 30 lbs.
• Occasional pushing/pulling up to 30 lbs.
• Frequent fine finger movement and handling materials
• Frequent gripping and reaching 
• Occasional climbing stairs/step ladder
• Continuous sitting 
• Continuous use of computer monitor, keyboard, and computer mouse
• Frequent standing and walking
• Occasional bending, stooping, twisting, or balancing.
• Rare crawling, kneeling, and crouching
• Inside Work – continuous 
• Outside Work – rare
• Hot/Cold – occasional
• Humid/Dry – occasional
• Dust/Vapor Fumes – occasional. 
• Hazardous Machines – occasional 
• Moving Objects – occasional 
• Sharp hand tools – occasional 
• Loud Noise – occasional
• Working alone – frequent 
• May be required to wear the following Personal Protective Equipment (PPE): Safety Glasses, Gloves, Sleeves, and Respirator (Dust Mask).

Physical Demands Analysis: 

Environmental Conditions:

Never = Not Required/Never (0%)

Rare = Seldom/Rare (Not daily – 1-10%)

Occasional = Minor/Occasional (Less than 3 hours – 11-33%)

Frequent = Required/Frequent (For 3-5 hours – 34-64%)

Continuous = Major/Continuous (More than 5 hours – 64-100%)

• Excellent total compensation package
• 100% company paid medical, dental, and vision.
• Onsite medical clinic
• Generous 401K contributions
• Top-notch wellness program with a focus on your total well-being

L&L Products does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, weight, height, marital status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law. L&L Products will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities unless doing so would result in undue hardship.