Development Chemist

Development Chemist

North Lancashire

Permanent

We are assisting a client to recruit a scientist to research new products, removing chemicals like fluorine and other unwanted chemistries across synthetic and biological based products, which will result in new products developed that meet performance standards.

What you’ll do:

You will be developing and expanding the knowledge of chemical formulations, which will include the physical chemistry of surfactants, polymers and solvents.

Design and conduct experiments to develop the underlying understanding of the science behind the results.

Keep a high awareness of scientific and technical literature and the wider ecosystem around your product area. Patents being filed and trade industry news are other areas to keep a strong awareness of.

Identify new novel components that have potential properties to benefit the product range, and use lab based tests to predict performance at scale.

Provide information for product specification and launches of products.

Your background:

We are seeking a candidate who is a chemistry graduate or equivalent.

Further qualification in surface, colloid or industry experience in formulation development, specifically water based systems, surfactants, polymers and solvents will be advantageous. Please do details this on your CV or cover note.

Established laboratory practical skills, basics like organised tidy work through to laboratory specifics in health and safety, resource organisation, communication skills and note taking.

Experience of manufacturing techniques and any time spent working in and alongside manufacturing is of advantage (not essential).

Driving licence.

All CV’s will be reviewed within 24 working hours by an employee of LiCa Scientific, we use zero AI in our review process.

We do receive a high number of applications however, and response times can be longer, if you have not heard from us within 7 days please regard the application as unsuccessful (application discussions and advice are however available on request over phone or email, and please feel free to followup your application with us).

On this occasion, LiCa Scientific is acting as an employment agency.