Process Development Scientist

1 week ago

St Austell, United Kingdom Imerys Full time

Role: Process Development Scientist

Location: Stenalees, Cornwall

Hours: 40h M-F

Are you a Lab manager or scientist seeking a role where you can have a real input? You will work on a pilot plant for the first fully integrated processing facilities for Lithium in Europe.

Your Role: You will develop and improve novel process technologies for extracting, refining and purifying lithium from micaceous granites and successful execution of bench-scale trials provision of scientific design data for the British Lithium Project. Some of your responsibilities include:

  • You will be a member of the Process Development team, conducting laboratory bench-scale metallurgical and process chemistry test work at either British Lithium in-house facilities or external laboratories.
  • Ensuring the safe operation of laboratory equipment, including Atomic Adsorption Spectrometer and portable XRF machinery.
  • Contribution to sustaining capital and improvement capital requests, logging and recording trial and analytical data, and technical reporting of the outcomes of bench-scale trials.
  • You may be required to deputise for the Person in Charge (PIC) of the Metallurgical Laboratory facility and equipment, or a sub-area thereof.
  • Coordinating samples for analytical assays, including collecting, labelling, and shipping.
  • Contributing to reviewing, developing and maintaining QA/QC polices for the collection, testing and analysis of samples, ensuring proper chain of custody.
  • Developing experimental programmes to support process engineering design activities.

What’s in it for you?

  • 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays
  • Generous Pension Plan
  • Life Assurance
  • Income Protection
  • Company Sick Pay
  • Car salary sacrifice scheme
  • Health and Wellbeing Programme
  • Flu and eye care vouchers
  • Discounts on external retailers
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Healthcare cash plan
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • An opportunity to work in a role where each day is different and varied

You will:

  • Ideally be experienced in mineral and chemical process technologies within a mining environment.
  • Have a degree level qualification in Chemistry or an earth science
  • Have experience of working in a process laboratory environment, with knowledge of inorganic chemical processes and lithium chemistries
  • Have knowledge of health & safety standards and COSHH regulations and, ideally, have a vocational health and safety qualification
  • Working knowledge of process design for mineral and chemical processes.

Our people are important to us, our workplaces are diverse and inclusive and whilst maintaining the health, safety and environmental standards on site, for yourself and others around you, we’re an organisation with a wealth of career and development opportunities that allow you to tap into your full potential.

We would like our application process to be accessible to all - if you require an alternative way to apply then please get in touch.

IMERYS is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer, and it is our policy to not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected by federal, state or local laws.

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