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A leading Water Purification company has a new opportunity for a Senior Chemist to join their business. The company have evolved in the UK over the past few years and are now one of the leading chemical & water treatment providers in the UK. Due to ongoing expansion across their sites, they now have a rare opportunity for a senior level Chemist to join the business. They are offering an attractive salary between £35k to £40k with additional 8% bonus, Healthcare options, Life Cover, Company Pension and much more.

Job Summary:

This opportunity will be situated in their R&D team and the purpose of the role is to devise and formulate new resin bead products, to understand customer needs and deliver targeted solutions, and develop, with the help of the RD&E Group Leader and surrounding team, efficient procedures for the scale-up of resin products to plant manufacturing. Perform process investigations to improve existing process efficiency and to develop new processes where necessary.

Responsibilities:

To synthesise new products and drive innovation (Ion Exchange resins, adsorbents, chromatography media, resins for bioprocessing, etc).
Perform optimisation exercises to improve process efficiency and reduce costs.
To work both independently and with existing RD&E staff, ensuring safe and most effective practices.
To liaise and work closely with surrounding analytical and application teams to progress development projects.
To liaise with process development, technical transfer and production teams ensuring successful commercialisation of new products.
To monitor, progress and document project development within the RD&E team according to agreed timescales/deadlines.
To research papers and publications to keep up to date with latest developments in the field.
To help maintain the required level of Health and Safety within the lab including upkeep of H&S databases (e.g. COSHH, SDS, Risk Assessments).
To undertake any other reasonable tasks as required by the Management of the company.

Requirements:

PhD/Master's in chemistry or equivalent.
Experienced Chemist is required - this is not a graduate role.
Preferably knowledge of Resins, Polymers or Synthetics.
Experienced in Formulation Chemistry.

In return they offer a highly competitive salary with very attractive benefits

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