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13 months ago
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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

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