Technical Service Advisor

Technical Service Chemist for a leading chemicals company - North Lancashire Company : Part of a growing multinational chemical organisation, this site boast over 20 years expertise in developing speciality additives for the inks, polymer and coatings industries. Hours of work : Monday to Thursday, 8am to 4.30pm, Friday 8am to 1.30pm (long weekends, wahoo) Why join? - Lots of variety within the role - Formulation, customer service and application testing. - Seeing your projects go from concept to full scale manufacture. - Future investment and ambitious growth plans. - Great team and family feel environment. Location : North Lancashire. NB - This is a site based role. Duration : Permanent position. Salary : Up to £35k (dependent on skills and experience) You will be involved in : Interpreting customer requirements into tangible R&D projects. Carrying out formulations within the lab and application testing. Liaising with customers on their requirements and updating on projects along with advising and troubleshooting on existing products. Carrying out scale-up activities and working with production to ensure compliance and efficiency of new processes. Where required visiting customer sites to oversee first batches and providing technical support. What do you need to be considered? You will need : Science based qualification or equivalent experience. Hands-on experience of formulating and scaling-up of products such as paints, coatings, inks, pigments or polymers (surfactant chemistry would be highly desirable). Experience in a customer facing role either over the phone or in person. Knowledge of regulatory standards and H&S. Excellent communication (written and verbal) and team skills with the ability to liaise with internal and external stakeholders. What to do next Interested? If you have a passion for formulation and want a role which is lab and customer orientated, which gives you the opportunity to work on your own R&D projects from initial brief through to full scale manufacture and want to be part of a family feel environment and growing organisation, then this is the role for you Apply now to avoid disappointment as the company is looking to review CVs immediately. ADZN1_UKTJ