Duration: 2-Year FTC
Hours: 8:30am until 5pm (Monday to Friday)
Salary: circa £39,000
Job Reference: 35127
Polytec are looking for a self-motivated Post Doctoral Researcher in Chemistry for our Huntingdon based client.
Responsibilities:
- Develop new materials meeting, specific technical requirements
- Suggest improvements / adaptions according to performance and requirements
- Identify Intellectual Property, invention disclosures, provide feedback ensuring high quality patent applications
- Perform / oversee experiments offsite where in house evaluation or synthesis is not possible
- Rigorous analysis of experimental results
- Report findings and formulate recommendations
- Attend events to develop new project ideas
- Ensure health and safety standards are met and maintained
- PhD in Organic Chemistry / Chemistry degree plus equivalent relevant industrial work experience
- Inquiring mindset
- Experience in the design and successful synthesis of novel organic molecules
- Ability to follow and accurately record data for controlled processes
- Willing to acquire new skills and areas of expertise