Role: Process Development Scientist
Salary: Competitive
Hours: 40h M-F
Location: Stenalees, Cornwall
Would you like to be involved in Europe's first integrated Lithium production facility?
The joint venture between Imerys and British Lithium:
Imerys British Lithium (IBL) is a joint venture between Imerys S.A. and Lithium Assets Ltd., formerly British Lithium, developing a world class micaceous lithium resource in Cornwall. IBL have developed unique, patented technology for the sustainable recovery of battery grade lithium carbonate from micaceous granite, with the goal of building the world’s first integrated lithium mine, beneficiation plant and refinery producing 20,000tpa of lithium carbonate - enough to support production in the UK of 350,000 electric vehicles per year.
The role: You will develop and improve novel process technologies for extracting, refining and purifying lithium from micaceous granites. The role is responsible for the successful execution of bench-scale trials and provision of scientific design data for the British Lithium Project.
This will involve dialogue with design engineers, and project stakeholders in defining, specifying and de-risking the process technology that will deliver lithium carbonate product to the market.
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