Norwood, Ohio, US (On-site)1 open job
Fourth-generation, family-owned specialty chemical manufacturer (founded 1916) producing metal salts, metal carboxylates, and catalysts across three plants in North America and Europe, headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio.
The Shepherd Chemical Company makes the kind of stuff that doesn't make headlines but shows up everywhere: metal salts, metal carboxylates, and catalysts that end up in airbags, tires, petrochemical processes, lubricants, polyurethanes, and personal-care formulations. Founded in 1916 and still fourth-generation family-owned, it operates three manufacturing plants across North America and Europe, with headquarters in Cincinnati, Ohio and worldwide offices and distribution. The perimeter here is not a single app stack - it is distributed industrial operations spanning two continents, plus a portfolio of inorganic and organic metal compounds held as standard products.
The assets worth thinking about are concrete. There is proprietary process know-how in chemical synthesis, process scale-up, and commercialization - the company co-develops custom chemistries with customers from concept through packaged product, which means sensitive formulation and process data moves between organizations. There are ISO 9001:2015 quality practices governing how work is documented and controlled. And there are physical plants where emissions control, energy efficiency, and greenhouse gas reduction investments sit alongside production. Consumer safety is a stated end-market outcome, including airbag chemistry; the stakes are legible without dramatizing them.
Business verticals run across automotive, petrochemicals, polyurethanes, lubricants, healthcare, personal care and fragrance, tires and rubber - a customer base with its own audit and assurance expectations. Sustainability and responsible care guide operations. For anyone working on security in an environment like this, the domains are familiar and unglamorous: OT and plant systems, cross-site connectivity, IP protection around custom synthesis, third-party and customer data exchange, and quality-system integrity. The company describes its model as partnership from initial concept through commercialization - which is exactly the kind of workflow where process discipline matters.
