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
What do you need to be considered?
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.