Analytical Specialist

Company Overview

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This is where bold thinkers, problem-solvers, and innovators come together to shape what’s next. Whether you're engineering advanced materials, transforming manufacturing technologies, or leading strategic innovation, your ideas and actions leave a lasting mark. We cultivate an inclusive culture of growth, collaboration, and accountability, ensuring every contribution propels us forward.

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We invest in innovation, sustainability, and continuous development—equipping you with the tools, training, and opportunities to excel. With an unwavering commitment to safety, partnership, belonging, and impact, we empower you to lead change and strengthen industries worldwide.

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If you’re ready to push limits, reimagine what’s possible, and create the extraordinary, Hexion is where you belong. 

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Position Overview

Deliver reliable, high-quality analytical data to support production and product quality, while acting as a subject matter expert in gas chromatography and wet chemical techniques. The role is also responsible for troubleshooting, optimizing, and improving analytical methods and ensuring robust performance of laboratory analyses and related process-supporting measurements.

All in compliance with quality, safety, and company procedures. 

Job Responsibilities

Independently execute, interpret, and perform analytical work to ensure reliable and timely data delivery, while driving continuous improvement in analytical methods and laboratory performance.
The initial core of the role is focused on QA/QC activities supporting production processes, complemented by non-routine analytical work of increasing complexity. 
In addition, the role actively contributes to the evolution of the laboratory towards greater use of inline/online analytical techniques and smarter, data-driven offline analysis.

Positioning Statement:
This role is positioned as a (senior) analytical specialist within the laboratory, combining routine analytical responsibilities with advanced troubleshooting, method optimization, and continuous improvement of analytical performance.

• Analytical Execution: 
  
  • Independently perform routine and non-routine
  • analyses on process, raw material, and product samples
  • Critically assess analytical results against specifications, trends, process expectations and reference materials
  • Escalate and investigate deviations using structured problem-solving approaches
  • Prepare routine samples to be outsourced to external laboratories, including documentation

• Method Optimization & Development: 
  
  • Proactively identify, propose and implement improvements in analytical workflows, methods, and laboratory efficiency 
  • Contribute to updating SOPs and best practices based on operational experience
  • Support or lead method development and validation activities for new or modified analyses
  • Ensure analytical methods remain fit-for-purpose for evolving production processes

Additional Job Responsibilities

• Equipment & Technical Ownership: 
  
  • Take technical ownership of assigned analytical equipment, with a focus on GC and titration systems
    Identify recurring equipment issues (“bad actors”) and implement structural improvements
  • Perform or coordinate advanced troubleshooting and maintenance with vendors where needed
  • Produce professional reports that present results, analysis, conclusions, and recommendations; properly file all project documentation.

• Data Quality & Reliability: 
  
  • Ensure data integrity through calibrations, QC checks, and validation activities
  • Challenge unexpected results and ensure proper follow-up and documentation
  • Safeguard analytical quality standards in support of production decisions

• Miscellaneous: 
  
  • Follow up when stock of chemicals, consumables, glassware and/or spare parts becomes too low
  • Perform additional tasks in the Laboratory as divided up by the Laboratory Facility Coordinator and indicated by the Analytical Lead
  • Safely handle chemicals and equipment

Competencies

Strategic Focus and Direction:

• Builds relationships with customers and internal partners
• Understands the division's / business unit's strategic plan
• Identifies problems in attaining planned goals or work and proposes solutions
• Acquires knowledge of customers and processes to transmit accurate information about our products
• Acquires awareness of the business's strategic plan
• Focuses on own role and own performance to achieve individual and team/site goals
• Acquires understanding of the business process and effectively contributes to the functional area in a value-added way
• Focuses on finding solutions to problems in own working area

Trust and Teamwork:

• Displays correct, professional business etiquette in all interactions
• Understands that there are different approaches when making decisions and utilizes as appropriate 
• Compiles and presents information in a manner easily understood by others
• Collaborates to enhance team efforts through personal contributions.  Places team success above personal success
• Communicates directly, honestly, and respectfully to gain cooperation and resolve conflicts with others
• Provides information using appropriate verbal and written skills
• Learns and displays an understanding of business etiquette
• Prepares and maintains information and files in a useful manner
• Acquires effective and respectful conflict resolution skills
• Acquires and displays the behavior of an effective team member
  Participates in team decision-making processes

Personal Leadership:

• Completes work assignments timely and accurately
• Adapts to the changing needs of the organization
• Accepts responsibility for and learns from personal mistakes
• Displays a desire to learn, grow and accept change
• Understands and respects cultural differences
• Evaluates and plans the use of resources to obtain efficiencies wherever possible
• Acts in a manner consistent with Hexion’s core values
• Displays a positive attitude and willingness to make the necessary effort to accomplish goals
• Demonstrates accountability for own work, personal and professional development

Achieve Business Results:

• Performs acceptable work and seeks to continuously improve
• Chooses between appropriate options to solve problems
• Contributes to reducing redundancy and bureaucracy wherever possible
• Accomplishes assignments on time and contributes to continuously improve workflow and – processes
• Plans, organizes, and completes projects and functional work to accomplish goals and assignments
• Accomplishes expectations and delivers goals and work timely and efficiently

Minimum Qualifications

• High Laboratory Education (HLO), specialism: analytical(/organic) chemistry. 
• Or Middle Laboratory Education (MLO), analytical chemistry with significant relevant knowledge and experience (on products, production processes and analyses) and HLO working and thinking level.
• Over 8 years of relevant working experience in a laboratory (chemical industry)

Required technical expertise:

• Extensive hands-on experience in Gas Chromatography (GC), including troubleshooting, method optimization, and maintenance (Agilent preferred)
• Strong experience with wet chemical techniques, especially (automated) titration systems (e.g. Metrohm), including troubleshooting and method optimization
• Experience with LIMS systems (preferably Thermo SampleManager)
• Experience supporting process-related analyses (in-process and end product)

Required Specific Skills:

• Strong analytical problem-solving skills and ability to perform root cause analysis
• Ability to work independently and take ownership of technical challenges
• Proactive and improvement-driven mindset
  Strong communication skills (Dutch and English)
• Ability to translate analytical data into actionable insights for operations

Preferred Qualifications

Preferred / additional:

• Experience with inline / online / atline analyzers
• Familiarity with chromatography data systems (e.g. OpenLabII)
• Experience with AI-tools for / in the laboratory