Compensation Data: £50,000.00 - £60,000.00 per annum
Mission Details
Name: Maternity Cover – Lead Chemist Division: Arkema UK Department: R&D JOB TITLE: Lead Chemist
Based in Wetherby, West Yorkshire, UK, the role is primarily office and laboratory-based reporting to the Global R&D Director for Photoinitiators and Cationic Resins. Working as part of the R&D Synthesis team for Photoinitiators and Cationic Resin at the Wetherby Photoinitiator Centre of Excellence and supervising the R&D Synthesis team.
JOB DIMENSIONS
The Lead Chemist is part of the EMEA R&D team based at Wetherby’s Photoinitiator Centre of Excellence. Focused within photoinitiators and cationic resins, including new product development, design, preparation and scale up.
RESPONSIBILITIES
* Management: Planning and Executing projects within the R&D programme agreed with R&D Director, Product Manager and Market Manager.
* Supervision of the R&D technicians, managing their workload, timelines and priorities within projects.
* Planning and executing R&D NPD projects, developing actions and timelines, and reporting results in a timely manner.
* IP: Preparation of experimental data and any other necessary supporting data for patent applications and journal submissions.
* Assessment of freedom to operate and patentability for target products using patent and literature searching software.
* NPD: Working with the market managers and R+D Director to understand NPD market requirements and priorities.
* Designing projects to meet market requirements and lead NPD’s through the stage gate process and coordinating inputs from all functions.
* Transfer from R&D to manufacturing operations, both internal and external, and provide technical support for manufacturing operations.
* Reporting: Preparation for gate meetings to progress NPD projects.
* Reporting PI and Cationic NPD updates to the Global Innovation team to enhance global understanding of the projects and avoid duplication of work.
* Health and Safety: Maintain COSHH and other HSE required documentation and records.
* Keep up-to-date with health and safety issues in all aspects of work undertaken.
REQUIRED PROFILE
ACCOUNTABILITIES
* New Product Development: Initiation, development and tech transfer of new product developments/projects.
* Defines training, equipment investment and resources required for the Synthesis lab and meet the goals of the NPD funnel.
* Working safely; using and understanding existing COSHH and risk assessments and writing new COSHH and risk assessments.
* Generate and distribute technical reports & prepare invention records as appropriate.
* Represent the PI portion of the Sartomer business in the Global Innovation Team.
QUALIFICATIONS / EXPERIENCE REQUIRED
* Educated to PhD in Organic Chemistry/ a related field.
* Experience in Photo initiator and acrylate chemistry.
* Experience in managing a team.
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