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Physical Chemist
| Posting date: | 19 August 2024 |
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| Salary: | £30,000 to £34,000 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 18 September 2024 |
| Location: | Ebbw Vale, Wales, NP23 5SD |
| Company: | Focused Recruitment |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 54014151 |
Summary
Focused Recruitment are currently seeking an experienced Chemist to join our clients facility based within the Ebbw Vale area on a permanent basis. Within the role as a Chemist you would play a vital role in planning and conducting research experiments within the factory.
Hours of work include:
Monday - Thursday 08:00am - 16:00pm. Fridays 08:00am - 13:30pm on Friday.
Duties of the role will include:
- Participate in scale-up and optimisation of our Nickel Zinc technology ensuring a smooth transition of technology to field trials
- Support R&D trials of new products through battery cycling, electrochemical analysis and product teardown.
- Evaluate production failures through data analysis and teardown.
- Provide regular project updates on progress to the line manager as required
- Conduct risk assessments and COSHH assessments
- Work with the R&D Electrochemist to conduct research and development, analyse test results and propose improvements to the design to meet target performance requirements
- Work to a schedule to prepare, perform, monitor, maintain and report on ongoing testing.
- Contribute to the development of project documentation, such as research studies, technical analysis, development of test plans, reports and presentations to the R&D manager and New Technologies team.
- Develop experimental hypotheses and conduct experimental tests as a member of a team or independently.
- Generate and report data to the R&D Manager according to agreed timeframes and milestones
- Ability to attend out of hours meetings with Australian based team (notionally 1-2 hours per week)
- Perform laboratory administrative tasks, such as: maintaining and updating work procedures; maintaining test logs and records; conducting risk assessments; maintain lab facilities, equipment and supplies inventory; managing safe handling and storage of hazardous materials and waste
Desired attributes:
- You must possess a degree qualification (BSc/MChem or similar) in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, or closely related field of study.
- Proven new product development experience taking novel concepts to commercial success.
- Experience of planning and conducting R&D projects using scientific principles to advance the development process
By applying for this position you are giving authorisation for Focused Recruitment Ltd to contact you regarding this vacancy and other vacancies we feel may be suitable for you.
We will not present your CV to any clients without your explicit consent. We will contact you if your CV is of interest, if you are unavailable we will leave a message, YOU MUST return this call otherwise your application cannot progress any further.
Focused Recruitment are a multi award winning independent recruitment agency covering South Wales and the South West. As a service driven company we are fully committed to working with clients and candidates that share this value. We consistently place the right people, into the right companies, with the right roles to fulfil their career aspirations.
Hours of work include:
Monday - Thursday 08:00am - 16:00pm. Fridays 08:00am - 13:30pm on Friday.
Duties of the role will include:
- Participate in scale-up and optimisation of our Nickel Zinc technology ensuring a smooth transition of technology to field trials
- Support R&D trials of new products through battery cycling, electrochemical analysis and product teardown.
- Evaluate production failures through data analysis and teardown.
- Provide regular project updates on progress to the line manager as required
- Conduct risk assessments and COSHH assessments
- Work with the R&D Electrochemist to conduct research and development, analyse test results and propose improvements to the design to meet target performance requirements
- Work to a schedule to prepare, perform, monitor, maintain and report on ongoing testing.
- Contribute to the development of project documentation, such as research studies, technical analysis, development of test plans, reports and presentations to the R&D manager and New Technologies team.
- Develop experimental hypotheses and conduct experimental tests as a member of a team or independently.
- Generate and report data to the R&D Manager according to agreed timeframes and milestones
- Ability to attend out of hours meetings with Australian based team (notionally 1-2 hours per week)
- Perform laboratory administrative tasks, such as: maintaining and updating work procedures; maintaining test logs and records; conducting risk assessments; maintain lab facilities, equipment and supplies inventory; managing safe handling and storage of hazardous materials and waste
Desired attributes:
- You must possess a degree qualification (BSc/MChem or similar) in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, or closely related field of study.
- Proven new product development experience taking novel concepts to commercial success.
- Experience of planning and conducting R&D projects using scientific principles to advance the development process
By applying for this position you are giving authorisation for Focused Recruitment Ltd to contact you regarding this vacancy and other vacancies we feel may be suitable for you.
We will not present your CV to any clients without your explicit consent. We will contact you if your CV is of interest, if you are unavailable we will leave a message, YOU MUST return this call otherwise your application cannot progress any further.
Focused Recruitment are a multi award winning independent recruitment agency covering South Wales and the South West. As a service driven company we are fully committed to working with clients and candidates that share this value. We consistently place the right people, into the right companies, with the right roles to fulfil their career aspirations.