Process Development Chemist
Location: South Oxfordshire
Contract: Full-time and permanent
Sector: Chemicals / chemistry
Salary: £35,000 - £55,000 depending on experience
Out client are a multi-national leading speciality chemicals company focused on designing and manufacturing additives for various fuels and lubricants, predominantly for use within vehicles to reduce emissions and increase fuel efficiency.
In a key phase of growth, our client are seeking an experienced Process Chemist to join their scale up and tech transfer teams. If you are an experienced organic / organometallic / polymer chemist who has an interest in supporting the scale up to manufacture of additives then this could be the role for you.
The Opportunity
This is an opportunity for experienced process chemists who have recent experience in developing synthetic routes of organic molecules / polymers for R&D to manufacturing process development. Your responsibilities will include:
1. Developing scalable synthetic routes for additives to take products from R&D to manufacturing. You will take a leading role on some of these projects.
2. Running initial manufacturing / production batches on a large scale.
3. Continuous improvement of manufacturing processes.
4. Applying organic and polymer chemistry knowledge to impro...