Technical Specialist

Technical Service Chemist for a leading chemicals company - North LancashireCompany : 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