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Senior R & D Chemist

Salary:

Up to £45k

Location:

North West

Location: Cheshire

Salary: Up to £45,000

The Company:  Adhesives Manufacturer

The Role:

·         Day to day will mostly be product development, where you focus on developing new and innovative water based, solvent based and hot melt adhesives which give market-leading advantages to the sales team.

·         Involved directly with suppliers and customers.

·         Learn about new and novel raw materials, reporting this back to the board in addition to getting new prices on raw materials to drive cost savings.

·         Partnering with sales to support customers’ product/ technical requirements to aid formulating and product development.

·         Manufacturing support to customer factories as required.

Provide leadership in the laboratory, providing man management and driving best practice.

 

Requirements:

  • At Least a HND or above in a science – either Physics or Chemistry
  • At least 3 years of experience in new product development from scope to commercialisation
  • At least 3 years of experience in formulating in a transferable technology such as inks, coatings etc
  • Driving licence to travel around UK and occasionally Europe
  • Experienced in raw material technologies
  • Experience in scaling up lab batches to production batches
  • Computer literate on word, excel etc to reasonable level

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