Technical Service Chemist - north Lancashire

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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 over see 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.