LABORATORY TECHNICIAN / DEVELOPMENT CHEMIST – SPANJER CHEMICALS LTD.

The company is a leading Manufacturer and Distributor of cleaning chemicals predominately for the automotive and catering industries.

• Product Development - Stability Testing - Working out QC Parameters - Customer Interaction (phone calls, emails or visits) - Supplier Interaction (development meetings, lab based) - Product trials
• Small scale in our car park / in the lab
• Larger scale on customer sites
• Process Development - Scale up from small lab samples to batches of several tonnes - Mixing methods
• MSDS Authoring - Classification of mixtures using our software - Choosing appropriate phrases to populate the rest of the sheet - DGN info - Translations into various languages (customer dependent, the software handles the bulk of the translation, Google does the rest) - Making sure all customers are updated whenever an MSDS changes
• Label Design (industrial & retail) - Photoshop experience would be handy, but not essential - Working with our ChemLabel software - Making sure all the correct information gets put onto the label
• Product Costing - Excel experience is a must - Updating RM costs - Periodically producing a costing summary calculating
• Formulation cost
• Finished goods costs (5L, 10L, 25L etc, including container, labelling and box costs)
• Day to day - Answering customer queries
• Directly (email / phone)
• Indirectly (advising colleagues over email / phone) - Helping manufacturers
• Faulty batches
• New mixing methods
• Label / transport (DGN) issues
• RM sourcing
• QC issues
• Other duties - Visiting manufacturers at Wigan - Visiting current and potential customers (within the UK only – may need to drive) - Lab maintenance (ordering equipment, keeping everything safe and clean, etc.)

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Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: £35,000.00-£38,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Free parking
• On-site parking

Schedule:

• Day shift
• Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person
Application deadline: 20/06/202

Please refer the Job description for details