Senior R&D chemist - leading fine chemicals manufacturer

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Senior R&D Chemist opportunity for a rapidly growing fine chemicals  manufacturer based in North East England

Job Opportunity – Senior R&D Chemist

Company:   International fine chemicals manufacturer based in North East England, which supplies some of the world's largest consumer manufacturers, and is now going through a period of extensive growth.  

Hours of work: Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm

Why join?  

• Excellent team environment.
• Great benefits.
• Broad range of chemistry.
• £25 million investment in facilities and equipment.
• Stable and established business.
• Opportunity to work on own projects 

Duration: Permanent

Location: North East England.

Salary: Up to £45k, depending on skills and experience

You  will be involved in:

• Developing new and existing synthetic processes (organic compounds) through literature and laboratory work.
• Scaling up processes up to multi-kilo scale and providing associated tech transfer information and purification by distillation.
• Work with QC department to develop analytical method for in-process QC and final product assays.
• Carrying out projects and oversee project teams.
• Ensuring that H&S and environmental compliance within the laboratory

You will need:

• Qualification in Chemistry at degree level or above.
• Ideally 5 years industrial experience carrying out synthetic organic chemistry in the development of fine chemicals (APIs, additives,  aroma chemicals etc).
• Experience of scale-up/tech transfer (multi-kilo).
• knowledge of analytical techniques such as GC and wet chemistry.
• Excellent communication skills - written and verbal.
• Previous experience in project and team management.