Colour Chemist
Location: Manchester
Full Time | Permanent
Are you an aspiring chemist with a creative streak in them? We’re working with a leading manufacturer of coatings who are looking for someone to come in and assist their technical team in creating new colours for their products. If you want to work in a role that will let you utilise both your technical skills and creative passion, all while seeing your work translated into real results, then this is for you.
What You’ll Be Doing
The role’s primary focus will be on developing, matching and testing new colours for our client’s expansive product range. As such you will be expected to place and maintain work orders and ensure they’re correctly tracked, assess the suitability of the products for a range of different applications, check created products against master specifications to ensure everything that leaves meets our client’s high quality standards and to formulate and match new innovative colours in line with product specifications. To do all this you will be expected to perform quality checks on incoming raw materials, provide hands on support to the mixing and coatings teams, investigate any issues that arise with the product and maintain good housekeeping practices within the laboratory.
What You’ll Bring
Essential
* Educated to degree level or equivalent in Colour Science, Chemistry or a related discipline.
* Previous experience formulating colours and performing colour matching checks in an industry production laboratory
* Strong technical ability and an understanding of how to interpret and present complex data.
* Familiarity with Health, Safety, Environmental and Quality standards in laboratory and industrial settings
Desirable
* Previous experience working in a laboratory with textiles, paints or coatings
You can also send your CV through to Dylan Starling at: d.starling@smart4chemicals.com