# Technical Ink Manufacturing Chemist

**Company**: HP
**Location**: Singapore, South West
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Manufacturing

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## Description

The Technical Ink Manufacturing team at HP is seeking a chemist who would be responsible for bringing ink technologies to address performance and cost, from development phase into manufacturing and sustain the product till end-of-life.

This role combines expertise in ink formulation with responsibilities in process scale-up, product qualification, supplier collaboration, and change management. The chemist ensures inks meet requirements for performance, manufacturability, regulatory compliance, cost, and supply continuity, while driving project execution, risk management, and cross-functional collaboration.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Ink Formulation and Reformulation:

- Lead reformulation efforts in response to raw material, supplier, or regulatory changes.

- Develop and optimize formulations to meet performance, quality, manufacturability, cost, regulatory, and supply requirements.

- Apply deep understanding of material properties and interactions with manufacturing processes and equipment to ensure print performance.

- New Production Introduction and Qualification:

- Partner with research and development teams to develop and introduce new inks and raw materials.

- Support product development from laboratory scale through pilot and full manufacturing.

- Ensure readiness for production, including robustness, reproducibility, and process capability.

- Support product data management and assess supply risks during product introduction.

- Manufacturing and Scale-up:

- Support scale-up from development to high-volume manufacturing.

- Optimize formulations and processes for yield, efficiency, and consistency.

- Troubleshoot manufacturing and quality issues in partnership with production teams.

- Change Management and Risk Mitigation:

- Implement product and raw material changes driven by performance, regulatory, cost, or supply considerations.

- Conduct risk assessments and ensure compliance with applicable standards and regulations.

- Lead technical response to supply disruptions and product quality issues.

- Supplier Engagement:

- Manage supplier technical relationships to ensure quality, consistency, and assurance of supply for inks and raw materials.

- Partner with suppliers on co-development and manufacturing readiness.

- Partner with suppliers to troubleshoot and resolve process and quality issues.

- Own technical responses to supply chain-related issues.

- Perform supplier audits.

- Compliance and Governance:

- Conduct risk assessments and ensure compliance with internal standards and external regulations.

- Support and conduct audits according to quality standards.

- Program Management and Cross-Functional Leadership:

- Collaborate with R&D and cross-functional teams to develop and launch new inks and raw materials.

- Support ink development activities from lab through pilot and manufacturing.

- Enable scale-up from development to high-volume manufacturing.

- Manage, lead, drive projects, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement ink and raw material changes.

- Communication and Collaboration:

- Effectively collaborate with diverse teams (technical, business, supply chain, operations).

- Good stakeholder engagement and have the ability to inform of project status, issues, and/or escalations.

**Minimum Qualifications:**

- PhD or MS in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, or related scientific discipline.

- 4+ years of experience in an industrial or research environment.

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Polymer chemistry, Interfacial and surface chemistry, Organic and inorganic nanoparticle suspensions, fluid chemistry, analytical and characterization techniques, and data interpretation.

- Experience in supporting new product introductions, manufacturing, or change qualifications.

- Experience in ink manufacturing, specification, and quality management.

- Strong understanding of fundamental chemical principles and mechanisms.

- Demonstrated analytical and empirical problem-solving skills, driven by data.

- System thinking, growth mindset, good flexibility, and able to adapt to dynamic environments.

- Program management skills.

- Ability to collaborate and partner with worldwide teams across various functions.

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## Skills

### Required
- Chemistry
- Chemical Engineering
- Ink Formulation
- Process Scale-up
- Product Qualification
- Supplier Collaboration
- Change Management
- Risk Management
- Project Execution
- Cross-functional Collaboration

### Nice to have
- Polymer chemistry
- Interfacial and surface chemistry
- Organic and inorganic nanoparticle suspensions
- Fluid chemistry
- Analytical and characterization techniques
- Data interpretation
- Program management
- Ink manufacturing
- Specification and quality management

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