Technical Specialist

Technical Service Chemist for a leading chemicals company - North Lancashire

Company: Part of a growing multinational chemical organisation, this site boast over 20 years expertise in developing speciality additives for the inks, polymer and coatings industries.

Hours of work: Monday to Thursday, 8am to 4.30pm, Friday 8am to 1.30pm (long weekends, wahoo!)

Why join?

• Lots of variety within the role - Formulation, customer service and application testing.
  
  
• Seeing your projects go from concept to full scale manufacture.
  
  
• Future investment and ambitious growth plans.
  
  
• Great team and family feel environment.
  
  Location: North Lancashire.
  
  NB - This is a site based role.
  
  Duration: Permanent position.
  
  Salary: Up to £35k (dependent on skills and experience)
  
  You will be involved in:
  
  
  • Interpreting customer requirements into tangible R&D projects.
    
    
  • Carrying out formulations within the lab and application testing.
    
    
  • Liaising with customers on their requirements and updating on projects along with advising and troubleshooting on existing products.
    
    
  • Carrying out scale-up activities and working with production to ensure compliance and efficiency of new processes.
    
    
  • Where required visiting customer sites to oversee first batches and providing technical support.
    
    What do you need to be considered?
    
    You will need:
    
    
  • Science based qualification or equivalent experience.
    
    
  • Hands-on experience of formulating and scaling-up of products such as paints, coatings, inks, pigments or polymers (surfactant chemistry would be highly desirable).
    
    
  • Experience in a customer facing role either over the phone or in person.
    
    
  • Knowledge of regulatory standards and H&S.
    
    
  • Excellent communication (written and verbal) and team skills with the ability to liaise with internal and external stakeholders.
    
    What to do next...
    
    Interested?
    
    If you have a passion for formulation and want a role which is lab and customer orientated, which gives you the opportunity to work on your own R&D projects from initial brief through to full scale manufacture and want to be part of a family feel environment and growing organisation, then this is the role for you!
    
    Apply now to avoid disappointment as the company is looking to review CVs immediately