Intellectual Property Scientist - Military veterans preferred

Intellectual Property Scientist
Littleton CO JMTC
R25_0815
Full time

This is the base salary pay range that an applicant can expect to make upon hire. Pay within this range will vary based upon relevant experience, skills, and education among other factors. In addition, this position is eligible for an incentive bonus.

Johns Manville is currently looking to hire an Intellectual Property Scientist, located in Littleton, CO. The Intellectual Property Scientist’s role includes timely monitoring and communicating of internal/external intellectual property activities and working proactively and collaboratively with all business units and functional teams to help strengthen and manage JM’s Intellectual Property. The goal is to drive IP engagement across all levels of the company to maximize the value of JM's Intellectual property investment. The position will also actively engage in idea collection across the company.

Your Day-to-Day:

• Work proactively and collaboratively with business unit and functional unit team members to help create, strengthen, and develop JM's intellectual property.
• Work with the businesses and functions to establish consistent operating rhythms regarding intellectual property awareness, development, and management.
• Proactively monitor and communicate competitive patent activities, provide updates and recommendations, and drive actions. Develop tracking and alerts for competitive case examination processes and changes in IP legal status.
• Develop training programs to JM technical community to improve IP knowledge and simple IP searching and tracking processes.
• Assist JM technical teams and individual inventors with the preparation of invention disclosures, performing prior art searching, and pursuing patent applications, or other forms of intellectual property protection.
• Perform prior art searches to assess patentability and clearance issues, internal and competitive patent landscape to support business unit technical projects.
• Support R&D and business unit technical strategy development by performing technical and IP landscape analysis and providing recommendations.
• Assist in the evaluation of concepts from external sources.
• Provide research and support to patent attorneys on patent prosecution matters, licensing, and acquisitions.
• Identify active JM patents that are no longer important to the business and make recommendations concerning possible licensing, divesture, or abandonment.
• Work in conjunction with IP Legal department to provide regular intellectual property updates to R&D and JM Businesses on current patent docket status and expenditures.
• Work across JM to develop and implement idea capture and management processes to collect valuable ideas to drive success in all aspects of JM's businesses.
• Provide training and administrative functions on external IP searching and innovation software platforms.

What You Bring to the Team:

• Degree in Chemistry, Material Science, Polymer Science, Engineering, or other related technical degree with a minimum of 5 years of related work experience, 10 years preferred.
• Capable of conducting and analyzing literature & patent searches and preparing invention disclosures
• Ability to teach, coach and mentor others in conducting effective competitive IP evaluations
• Ability to coordinate and manage multiple projects at the same time.
• Experience of idea collection and management systems preferred
• Ability to work independently and in a team environment
• Ability to interact with all levels of the organization, both internally and externally
• Ability to envision and communicate how competitive IP activity, literature and new competitive products relate to JM today and in the future.
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills
• Proven project management skills
• Strong presentation skills
• Proven analytical and quality improvement ability
• Travel required (When required , typically less than 30 days per year)
• Work environment is typical of a research and development facility (may be exposed to environmental conditions of cold, heat, high noise levels, moving mechanical parts, heights, dust/mist/gas/fumes, extensive walking or climbing, etc.)

Please Keep in Mind

If you do not meet 100% of these requirements, we at JM still want to hear from you. So, if you are interested in the role, we encourage you to apply so we can learn how your skills and talents can contribute to our team.

Benefits

Johns Manville (JM) offers a wide range of benefits to employees. Some are subsidized by the company and others are fully employee-paid. Health benefits include a choice of comprehensive medical plans, a dental plan, vision plan, wellness program and critical illness insurance. JM sponsors a 401(k) plan which includes a sizeable company match. JM offers paid vacation and also provides paid sick and parental leave for eligible employees.

Additionally, Johns Manville provides basic life Insurance, short-term and long-term disability coverage, an employee assistance program, and business travel accident coverage. Supplemental life insurance and accidental death and dismemberment insurance are available as well. The company also offers a variety of tax saving accounts; health spending account, traditional flexible spending account, and a dependent care spending account. JM also offers a tuition reimbursement program for undergraduate and certain graduate programs.

Johns Manville supports employee growth with vast educational opportunities and a company-wide mentoring program. This program pairs employees and leaders to grow skills, build stronger internal networks and strengthen the company’s succession planning process. Johns Manville also offers soft and hard skills training facilitated by internal and external presenters. Our talent management team prioritizes the holistic growth of our workforce.

Diversity & Inclusion

Johns Manville believes diversity and inclusion in our workplace is critical for the long-term success of our company. We are committed to retaining, developing and attracting a diverse workforce that fosters an inclusive work environment in which all employees are treated with dignity and respect. This is the right thing to do for our employees, our company and our communities. Our D&I council is composed of employees from locations across North American & Europe who meet regularly and work to promote and foster an environment of inclusion. Born from our D&I council is our network of employee resource groups (ERGs) that are focused on supporting diverse communities in the workplace. Review more about our diversity & inclusion initiatives on JM’s Career page.

Incumbent must be physically able to perform essential job functions. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.

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