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Location: Cheshire
Salary: Up to £45,000
The Company: Adhesives Manufacturer
The Role:
- Day to day will mostly be product development, where you focus on developing new and innovative water based, solvent based and hot melt adhesives which give market-leading advantages to the sales team.
- Involved directly with suppliers and customers.
- Learn about new and novel raw materials, reporting this back to the board in addition to getting new prices on raw materials to drive cost savings.
- Partnering with sales to support customers’ product/ technical requirements to aid formulating and product development.
- Manufacturing support to customer factories as required.
- Provide leadership in the laboratory, providing man management and driving best practice.
Requirements:
- At Least a HND or above in a science - either Physics or Chemistry
- At least 3 years of experience in new product development from scope to commercialisation
- At least 3 years of experience in formulating in a transferable technology such as inks, coatings etc
- Driving licence to travel around UK and occasionally Europe
- Experienced in raw material technologies
- Experience in scaling up lab batches to production batches
- Computer literate on word, excel etc to reasonable level
