Research & Development Technician Chemistry

Research & Development Technician (Chemistry)
Weatherby
£28,000 - £31,000 DOE + excellent training + flexitime + healthcare + excellent pension + 26.5 days holiday + higher salary available for someone with 1 years experience+
Are you a Chemistry graduate with an understanding of organic chemistry looking for a lab-based role within a global organisation with industry leading training and development?
Do you want to broaden and develop your technical experience and work on exciting projects with an industry leading business with a huge range of career options at home and abroad?
On offer is a role within a global scientific business that will provide excellent training to work with new product development and who have just opened a brand-new state of the art laboratory facility.
You will be a recent Chemistry graduate with a thorough understanding of organic chemistry.
The Role:

• Execution of planned projects within the R&D programme, setting timelines, delivering, and reporting results in a timely manner.
• Process scale-up and transfer from R&D to manufacturing operations, both internal and external.
• Developing and evaluating new synthetic chemistry procedures and manufacturing processes.
• Running routine analytical tests.
• Sample administration, packing of samples and dispatching, liaising with the warehouse for sample transport to the lab, waste disposal.
• Working safely; using and understanding existing COSHH and risk assessments and writing new COSHH and risk assessments for the work undertaken. Following quality procedures, safety procedure and SOPs.

The Person:

• Educated to degree level in Chemistry / Science / Materials or related field

This is an excellent opportunity to join a global business with all the career opportunities that affords for an enthusiastic and ambitious individual.
Keywords: Graduate Chemist, Development Chemist, Photoinitiators, Lab Scientist, Lab Chemist, Development Scientist, Organic Chemistry

Reference: BBBH12881
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