Home Care Microbiologist

5 months ago

Bebington, United Kingdom Unilever Full time

**Job Title**:Home Care Microbiologist

**Location**:Port Sunlight Research Lab

**JOB PURPOSE**

Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of Food, Home and Personal Care products with sales in over 190 countries and reaching 2 billion consumers a day.

Unilever is the place where you can bring your purpose to life through the work that you do, creating a better business and a better world. You will work with the Home Care Design teams to create brands that are loved and improve the lives of our consumers and the communities around us.

Persil, Surf, Skip, Robijn, Omo, Cif, Domestos; all amongst the world’s most recognisable brands developed by Unilever’s Global Development Centre.

In your role you closely work with partners in Science & Technology, Formulation, Quality, Supply Chain and Procurement to deliver new and winning product innovations into our markets.

The purpose of the team is to provide a global technical expertise centre to support the Global Home Care Design and Deploy business in partnership with regional sister laboratories in other parts of the world. Microbiological expertise is provided on formulation and process design, microbiological methods and supply chain hygiene. A further aim is to drive operational efficiencies and global ways of working with our sister laboratories. The team is responsible for a hygiene assessment of all innovations from Home Care (HC) Global Design Centres.

**RESPONSIBILITIES**
- Sample administration
- Microbiological analysis of Home Care products
- Data review & knowledge gathering
- Design and perform practical work to evaluate preservative efficacy and ad hoc testing
- Data capture - ensure all data is generated and logged using the latest Digital tools available
- Coordinate the evaluation of existing and new preservation technologies across HC to ensure products are safe by design from a formulation/preservation and processing perspective, working as part of multi-disciplinary project team
- Work with the greater team to contribute to the Preservation 2.0 programme
- Maintaining strong links and developing networks across multi-disciplinary project teams, including formulation, quality and regulatory / safety contacts
- Standardise data capture to feed into models
- Refine and develop new methods, ensuring thorough validation and clearly communicate deployment of new the standards across the business
- Report and make recommendations to stakeholders

**ALL ABOUT YOU**
- Microbiological Science background in microbiology with relevant applied industrial microbiology experience. Ideally to BSc or MSc level with experience
- Previous practical microbiology experience in the same or similar field (Home and Personal Care products)
- Knowledge and experience of standard microbiological procedures
- Experienced in the creation, development and implementation of ideas related to microbiology
- Ability to write scientific papers and reports
- Proven science and technology experience in applied microbiology
- Proven experimental design capability
- Experience in working with external partners
- Excellent IT/Information technology awareness
- Communication/Networking - Including be able to present technical information using appropriate language, both verbal and written, to specialist and non-specialist audiences
- Team working - Working in multidisciplinary teams including being able to establish and communicate objectives to team members and stakeholders
- Practical creativity - including being able to uses ideas from a range of sources to recommend new approaches to work
- Judgement - Proven problem solver and decision maker capable of using technical judgement when complete information is not available. Being able to present sound and practical judgements to support decisions where there may be significant implications
- Planning and Organisation - Setting priorities to resolve conflicting demands to make the most efficient use of time

**NOTES**

**About Unilever**

Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of Food, Home and Personal Care products with sales in over 190 countries and reaching 2 billion consumers a day. Unilever has more than 400 brands found in homes around the world, including Dove, Tresemme, Lynx, Lifebuoy, Shea Moisture, Persil, Domestos, Ben & Jerry’s, Magnum, Marmite, The Vegetarian Butcher, Graze and Pot Noodle.

Faced with the challenge of climate change and the need for human development, we want to move towards a world where everyone can live well and within the natural limits of the planet. That’s why our purpose is ‘to make sustainable living commonplace’

**What We Offer**

Not only do we offer a competitive salary and pension scheme, we also offer an annual bonus, subsidised gym membership, a discounted staff shop and shares. You’ll have the opportunity to work directly with our renowned and exciting brands in a flexible and hybrid working environment.

Whilst the role is advertised on a full-

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