RID Scientist III

Title : RID Scientist III
Location : Dallas, TX Metro Area
Salary : Commensurate w/ Experience + Benefits

Summary :
Experienced RID Scientist III needed to lead formulation development of innovative personal care and OTC products from concept through scale-up. This role involves creating expert-level formulations, conducting experiments and stability testing, and ensuring products meet safety, regulatory, and manufacturing standards. Candidates should have around 8 years in cosmetics or personal care R&D and with strong knowledge of skin care chemistry, in addition to FDA regulations and cGMP compliance.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Create expert level formulations of a variety of personal care products, cosmetics, medical devices and OTC from concept to finished product.
  
• Prepare complete finished product formulations independently from project charters by understanding the requirements and the complete development process including scale up.
  
• Determine and perform design of experiment to evaluate new and/or alternate raw materials through bench trials.
  
• Develop new formulas using existing and new technologies in the personal care medical devices and OTC product area to support company-wide growth and future brand strategies.
  
• Ensure that formulas meet expected performance, safety and regulatory requirements so that they can be produced in manufacturing.
  
• Create innovative formulations in a capable affective manner to answer trends in market and meet project requirements.
  
• Develop new formulas using existing and new technologies in the personal care medical devices and OTC product area to support company-wide growth and future brand strategies.
  
• Ensure that formulas meet expected performance, safety and regulatory requirements so that they can be produced in manufacturing.
  
• Conduct stability testing to ensure formula and/or formula/package robustness.
  
• Prepare laboratory batches for studies and evaluations.
  
• Develop specifications for new and/or reformulated products, ensuring product quality. Serve as Lab Applications representative on cross-functional teams.
  
• Remain up to date and current on trends in the retail market and trends on formulations materials, ingredients, cost, etc.
  
• Customer support and interaction on a regular basis and problem solving.

Essential Skills and Qualifications :

• Bachelors degree in chemistry, engineering, or other technical degree +8 years of experience in cosmetics/personal care product formulation.
  
• Minimum 10 years of combined experience in topical formulations, R&D, innovation, ingredient interaction chemistry, and supporting scale-up/manufacturing.
  
• Extensive knowledge of skin care formulation chemistry and understanding of skin care, OTC drugs, personal care products, and medical devices experience with regulated products preferred.
  
• Expertise in developing stable, aesthetically pleasing formulations and adhering to cGMPs, safety guidelines, and GLP documentation standards.
  
• Working knowledge of FDA regulations.
  
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and project management skills.
  
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills.
  
• Independent worker with strong organizational skills and a proactive, results-oriented approach.
  
• Ability to manage multiple projects efficiently and deliver high-quality formulations.
  
• Thrives in a fast-paced environment, readily adapts to change, and possesses strong intellectual curiosity for continuous improvement.
  
• Ability to perform under pressure on projects with tight deadlines.
  
• Proficiency in MS Office Suite with a willingness to learn new software applications.

Work Environment:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

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