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R&D Co-Op - Fall

Rust-Oleum
Pleasant Prairie, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 21 Apr 2026
💰 $50,000/yr

About the role

Job Title: R&D Co-Op 

Schedule: Monday - Friday, 8:00am-4:30pm / Full Time / 40hrs/wk 

Pay: $25.00/hr 

 

What to expect:  

  • Job Duties: Summary: Co-op/Intern students are treated as coatings chemists in training, with a focus on professional growth and skills development in a teamwork-based environment. Students work on and learn about a variety of product types from metal to concrete coatings and decorative to high performance systems. Interaction with chemical suppliers, marketing brand managers, and manufacturing operations is incorporated with increasingly complex projects throughout the co-op career. They will train cross functionally under the different product platforms. 
  • Typical work assignments include Creating sample batches of paint for formula development, conducting performance testing on lab samples and competitive products, documenting data and interpreting/reporting results and assisting with production support through the scale-up process and batch adjustments. 
  • Required Skills: Current undergraduate student pursuing Chemistry, Chemical Engineering or a comparable scientific degree. 

 

Rust-Oleum is an equal-opportunity employer. Employment selection and related decisions are made without regard to sex, race, age, disability, religion, national origin, color, or other protected class.

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