Analytical Scientist Laboratory Leader (Chemistry / R&D)

at  Ernest Gordon Recruitment Limited

£40,000 - £46,000 DOE + EXCELLENT TRAINING + FLEXITIME + HEALTHCARE + EXCELLENT PENSION + 26.5 DAYS HOLIDAY

Are you an experienced Chemist with experience working in a laboratory environment looking for industry leading training with internal and external training courses, working on a project basis to understanding client problems and providing and developing solutions?
Do you want to broaden your technical experience and work on exciting projects with an industry leading business with a huge range of career options at home and abroad?
On offer is a role within a global scientific business that will provide excellent training to work with new product development and who are investing over £750,000 in new laboratory facilities
You will have MS, GC and HPLC experience and a desire to work with a dynamic environment on NPD as well as QA on exiting products.

• Deliver completed lab requests within the agreed timescales.
• Conducting analysis on raw materials, in-process samples (routine & non-routine) and final products
• Testing samples using a range of techniques including GC, HPLC, Combustion Ion
• Chromatography, Karl Fischer, FTIR and UV-Vis
• Undertaking method development and method validation to support the R+D team
• Experience of maintaining and tuning single quad GC and LC MS
• Experience in the use of traditional ‘wet’ chemical and physical testing techniques, e.g., aqueous and non-aqueous titrations and viscosity measurements