Production Chemist

Veralto; Loveland (CO); On-site; USD 74,000 - 86,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k)

Professional onboarding and training

Job summary

Veralto’s Hach division seeks a Production Chemist to serve as the primary chemistry resource for manufacturing, ensuring safe, compliant processes and driving quality verification. You will partner with Operations, Quality, Engineering, and R&D to optimize processes and support new products and changes.

The role emphasizes process validation, data-driven decision making, and continuous improvement, with opportunities for career growth in a global water-quality leader.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of process troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and corrective action methodologies.
• Familiarity with quality systems, process validation, and quality verification activities.
• Ability to interpret and analyze process data, quality metrics, specifications, and technical documentation.
• Provides solutions to problems in situations that are atypical or infrequently occurring based on existing precedents or procedures.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary chemistry resource for production operations, providing ChemKey support and technical guidance to ensure safe, efficient, and compliant manufacturing processes.
• Conduct process validation studies, production trials, and qualification activities for new products, raw materials, equipment, and process changes to ensure successful implementation and manufacturing readiness.
• Monitor critical process parameters and production performance metrics to identify trends, assess process capability, and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
• Collaborate with Quality, Operations, Engineering, and Research & Development teams to evaluate process deviations, support investigations, and implement corrective and preventive actions.
• Review and analyze production, laboratory, and quality data to verify process consistency, identify opportunities for optimization, and support decision‑making.
• Support change management activities by assessing the impact of process, equipment, raw material, and formulation changes, and developing validation plans as required.
• Develop, maintain, and improve manufacturing procedures, work instructions, process flows, and quality verification protocols to ensure standardization and operational excellence.
• Provide technical training and coaching to production personnel on chemical processes, process controls, and quality requirements.
• Lead and support process troubleshooting activities by investigating production issues, identifying root causes, evaluating corrective actions, and implementing sustainable solutions to improve process reliability and product quality.
• Participate in nonconformance investigations, customer complaints, out‑of‑specification events, and corrective action activities to drive continuous improvement and prevent recurrence.

Skills

Process troubleshooting

Root cause analysis

Quality systems

Data analysis

Technical documentation

Job description

Production Chemist

Imagine yourself…

• Doing meaningful work that makes an everyday impact on the world around you.
• Growing your expertise and expanding your skillset with every project.
• Owning your ambition and fueling your career growth.

At Hach (http://www.hach.com/) a Veralto company, we ensure water quality for people around the world, and every team member plays a vital role in that mission. Our founding vision is to make water analysis better—faster, simpler, greener, and more informative. We accomplish this through teamwork, customer partnerships, passionate experts, and reliable, easy-to-use solutions.

As part of our team and the broader Veralto network, you’ll be part of a unique work environment where purpose meets possibility: where you’ll make an immediate, measurable impact on a global scale by enabling the world’s everyday water needs, and where you’ll have opportunities to foster your professional development and fuel your career growth.

Motivated by the highest possible stakes in climate change and global health, we’re working together within a rapidly digitizing industry to find innovative technologies that guarantee the safety of our water and our environment. More about us: https://www.hach.com/about-us

We offer:

• Professional onboarding and training options
• Powerful team looking forward to working with you
• Career coaching and development opportunities
• Health benefits
• 401(k)

The Production Chemist serves as the primary technical chemistry resource for manufacturing operations, supporting ChemKey activities, process troubleshooting, quality verification, and production validation efforts. This role works closely with Operations, Quality, Engineering, and R&D to ensure processes are safe, stable, compliant, and capable of consistently producing products that meet quality standards. The Production Chemist analyzes process and quality data, investigates manufacturing issues, leads validation studies, and implements continuous improvement initiatives to optimize product quality, process performance, and operational efficiency. Through technical expertise and cross‑functional collaboration, this position helps drive manufacturing excellence and supports the successful introduction and sustainment of products and processes.

In this role, a typical day will look like:

• Serve as the primary chemistry resource for production operations, providing ChemKey support and technical guidance to ensure safe, efficient, and compliant manufacturing processes.
• Conduct process validation studies, production trials, and qualification activities for new products, raw materials, equipment, and process changes to ensure successful implementation and manufacturing readiness.
• Monitor critical process parameters and production performance metrics to identify trends, assess process capability, and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
• Collaborate with Quality, Operations, Engineering, and Research & Development teams to evaluate process deviations, support investigations, and implement corrective and preventive actions.
• Review and analyze production, laboratory, and quality data to verify process consistency, identify opportunities for optimization, and support decision‑making.
• Support change management activities by assessing the impact of process, equipment, raw material, and formulation changes, and developing validation plans as required.
• Develop, maintain, and improve manufacturing procedures, work instructions, process flows, and quality verification protocols to ensure standardization and operational excellence.
• Provide technical training and coaching to production personnel on chemical processes, process controls, and quality requirements.
• Lead and support process troubleshooting activities by investigating production issues, identifying root causes, evaluating corrective actions, and implementing sustainable solutions to improve process reliability and product quality.
• Participate in nonconformance investigations, customer complaints, out‑of‑specification events, and corrective action activities to drive continuous improvement and prevent recurrence.

The essential requirements of the job include:

• Knowledge of process troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and corrective action methodologies.
• Familiarity with quality systems, process validation, and quality verification activities.
• Ability to interpret and analyze process data, quality metrics, specifications, and technical documentation.
• Provides solutions to problems in situations that are atypical or infrequently occurring based on existing precedents or procedures.

Hach is proud to part of the Water Quality segment of Veralto (NYSE: VLTO), a $5B global leader dedicated to ensuring access to clean water, safe food and medicine, and trusted essential goods. When you join Veralto’s vibrant global network of 17,000 associates, you join a unique culture and work environment where purpose meets possibility: where the work you do has an everyday impact on the resources and essentials we all rely on, and where you’ll have valuable opportunities to deepen your skillset, pursue your ambitions, and grow your career. Together, we’re Safeguarding the World’s Most Vital Resources - and building rewarding careers along the way.

US ONLY:

The below range reflects the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future. An associate’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors, including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, shift, travel requirements, sales or revenue-based metrics, any collective bargaining agreements, and business or organizational needs.

The compensation range for this role is $74,250 - $86,000 USD per year. This job is also eligible for Bonus Pay.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company’s sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

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Veralto and all Veralto Companies are committed to equal opportunity regardless of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other characteristics protected by law. We value diversity and the existence of similarities and differences, both visible and not, found in our workforce, workplace and throughout the markets we serve. Our associates, customers and shareholders contribute unique and different perspectives as a result of these diverse attributes.