Senior Process Development Chemist

Senior Process Development Chemist                                                             c£40-64k +Bonus +Benefits

South East                                                                                                       ABJ6783

Permanent

As high-level graduate (BSc, MSc or PhD) of Chemist, Synthetic Chemist or Chemical Engineering, or Materials Engineering Scientist with several years industrial experience you will embark on a development / product synthesis and analysing opportunity. This is a great role for a Senior Process chemist with practical excellence and experience transferring process from lab to (pilot) plant scale, scale up to at least 5kg is crucial.  As a process chemist you will be involved in designing and synthesise novel compounds across a variety of chemistry types, developing robust processes which can be translated to commercial manufacture. As a process chemist you will have the opportunity to drive the development of industrially relevant, next generation materials across a range of scales (100g – 5kg) in well-equipped laboratories.  Your understanding of synthetic chemistry will help  enable commercialisation of novel chemical solutions whilst working across multiple functions to assess regulatory, legal (intellectual property) and commercial viability of new materials.

Key points to mention crucial to the role

• Several years’ experience MUST be in an industrial process R&D setting
• This experience needs to be, first and foremost, in developing robust chemical processes (often from early-stage, discovery-type synthetic routes) which can be translated to commercial manufacture.
• The scales operated at (e.g. 100 g – 5 kg) must closely match
• This person is immediately owning projects in this area, stewarding and overseeing workstreams of others and be leading (and developing) safety frameworks and more junior colleagues.

Key Responsibilities

• Contribute to the high safety standard of the group within and beyond laboratory work 
• Predominantly lab-based (at least 60% of time), developing commercially viable synthetic processes for translation to commercial manufacture
• Requirement to take ownership for other (sometimes non-lab based activities) to support the team’s operation (e.g. related to safety, risk assessment and/or quality)
• Effective collation of data, interpreting and communicating results to agree next project steps in collaboration.
• Contribute effectively as an individual and as part of globally-distributed, cross-functional teams
• Solving complex scientific problems through generation of innovative solutions

Qualifications, Knowledge and Experience Required:

• BSc or MSc or PhD in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, process or Synthetic chemistry or Materials Science
• Willingness to take ownership and accountability to progress projects independently
• Experience MUST BE several years in an industrial setting – pilot plant setting
• Must have worked CLOSELY in Process Development to scales operated at (e.g. 100g – 5 kg) industrially
• Technical background - significant experienced technology/ chemical, synthetic chemistry, product development, in various areas like synthetic organic chemistry or formulation or polymers, additives fuels, emulsifiers, diesels markets but can take from other industries materials etc.
• Track record within an industrial process R&D setting of translating early-stage synthetic routes into robust chemical processes which can be translated to commercial manufacture
• Hands-on experience in use and troubleshooting of a range of chemical analysis techniques such as LC-MS, GC-FID, GC-MS, NMR spectroscopy and FTIR spectroscopy
• Experience of sustainable and/or green chemistry in an industrial setting desirable

They offer an attractive salary (dependent on experience), commensurate with qualifications.

To Apply: Please contact Alison Basson