Development Chemist

CK Group are recruiting for a Development Chemist to join a global materials manufacturing company based in Alfreton, on a full time, permanent basis offering a salary upto £35,000 per annum depending on experience with working hours, 9am to 5pm Monday to Thursday, 8am to 4pm on Fridays.

The Company:

Our client is one of the country's leading suppliers and manufacturers of solvent and water based products.

Location:

This role is located in Alfreton.

Your main duties will involve:

• Development of new products to customer requirements, to include making lab scale blends and testing product performance and stability, and recording all results clearly.
• Preparing lab samples for customer approval.
• Improvement of current products by re-formulation.
• Testing of alternative raw materials in current products.
• Competitor product analysis.
• QA of raw materials arriving on-site.
• Assisting with QA of finished products, to include testing properties such as pH, viscosity, foam and colour, recording results, assisting with re-works when required, and maintaining retained sample storage.

Your Background:

The ideal candidate for this role will have the following skills and experience:

• Experience in development of blended chemical products.
• Experienced with performing quality checks.
• 3-5 years of industrial lab experience.

Apply:

It is essential that applicants hold entitlement to work in the UK. Please quote job reference 101510 in all correspondence.