Field Applications Scientist

Interested in joing our Applications team? Do you enjoy traveling and networking with customers?

TA Instruments Applications Organization is comprised of highly skilled, motivated and customer focused professionals that are technical experts on TA’s product lines. As an Applications Engineer you’ll join a team of specialists that are committed to ensuring TA’s world-renowned support for our customers who utilize our analytical instrumentation. In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to work with multiple disciplines including; Sales, Service, Product Management, and Engineering while engaging our customers both pre- and post-sale. Whether you are running samples, teaching training courses, giving technical seminars, or doing other tasks to support our worldwide business you’ll find new and exciting challenges daily.

• Provide Applications support for pre and post sales activities for the Rheology product line.
• Conduct feasibility tests to characterize customer samples and generate reports with appropriate data analysis to support sales efforts.
• Provide post sales training and trouble-shooting.
• Teach training courses, both lecture based and hands-on at New Castle and at customer sites.
• Provide technical expertise to customers by email, phone, and in person.
• Provide technical expertise for Sales Representatives assisting in the closure of business.
• Give technical presentations.
• Guide demonstrations both in the Applications Lab and at customer sites.
• Maintain applications lab facilities.
• Participation in conferences and tradeshows.

Education:

• Bachelors Degree in Rheology, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, or related field
  • Masters or Ph.D. preferred. 

Experience:

• Relevant industrial experience preferred.
• Has a solid understanding of rheology, mechanical testing, and instrumentation.
• The ideal candidate would also have experience with thermal techniques (DSC, TGA, TMA).
• Prior experience with TA Instruments software and instrumentation preferred.
• Strong interpersonal and presentation skills.
• Ability to travel by both air and ground carrier.

Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) is a global leader in analytical instruments, separations technologies, and software, serving the life, materials, food, and environmental sciences for over 65 years. Our Company helps ensure the efficacy of medicines, the safety of food and the purity of water, and the quality and sustainability of products used every day. In over 100 countries, our 7,600+ passionate employees collaborate with customers in laboratories, manufacturing sites, and hospitals to accelerate the benefits of pioneering science. 

Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our core values at Waters Corporation. It benefits our employees, our products, our customers and our community. Waters complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws. Qualified applicants are considered without regard to sex, race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, marital status (including civil unions), military service, veteran status, pregnancy (including childbirth and related medical conditions), genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, legally recognized disability, domestic violence victim status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Waters is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. All hiring decisions are based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.