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Chemical Research Scientist

2 months ago


Ebbw Vale, Blaenau Gwent, United Kingdom Acorn by Synergie Full time
Job Description

Job Title: Physical Chemist

Job Type: Full-time

Industry: Manufacturing

Company: Acorn by Synergie

Location: Ebbw Vale

Job Reference: Not Applicable

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Physical Chemist to join our team in Ebbw Vale. As a Physical Chemist, you will play a vital role in planning and conducting research experiments, assisting in quality control and health and safety, and contributing to the development of new products.

Key Responsibilities
  • Research and Development: Participate in scale-up and optimisation of our Nickel Zinc technology, ensuring a smooth transition of technology to field trials.
  • Support R&D Trials: Support R&D trials of new products through battery cycling, electrochemical analysis, and product teardown.
  • Failure Analysis: Evaluate production failures through data analysis and teardown.
  • Project Updates: Provide regular project updates on progress to the line manager as required.
  • Risk Assessments: Conduct risk assessments and COSHH assessments.
  • Collaboration: Work with the R&D Electrochemist to conduct research and development, analyse test results, and propose improvements to the design to meet target performance requirements.
  • Scheduling: Work to a schedule to prepare, perform, monitor, maintain, and report on ongoing testing.
  • Documentation: Contribute to the development of project documentation, such as research studies, technical analysis, development of test plans, reports, and presentations to the R&D manager and New Technologies team.
  • Experimental Design: Develop experimental hypotheses and conduct experimental tests as a member of a team or independently.
  • Data Analysis: Generate and report data to the R&D Manager according to agreed timeframes and milestones.
  • Travel: Ability to attend out-of-hours meetings with Australian-based team (notionally 1-2 hours per week).
  • Administrative Tasks: Perform laboratory administrative tasks, such as maintaining and updating work procedures, maintaining test logs and records, conducting risk assessments, maintaining lab facilities, equipment, and supplies inventory, managing safe handling and storage of hazardous materials and waste.
Requirements
  • Education: Degree qualification (BSc/MChem or similar) in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, or closely related field of study.
  • Experience: Not required, but previous placements or paid roles can be beneficial.
  • Skills: Sound knowledge of chemical formulation, testing, and development; health and safety conscious mindset with previous experience of COSHH; self-reliant, results-oriented, energetic, flexible individual with a strong attention to detail and team-working ethos; excellent verbal/written communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Desirable Skills: Experience of planning and conducting R&D projects using scientific principles to advance the development process; new product development experience taking novel concepts to commercial success; knowledge of data analysis and visualisation techniques and associated software (e.g. Excel, R, Python); experience utilising electrochemical techniques.
  • Essential Requirements: Hold a current driver's licence; able and willing to travel overseas or within the UK as required; satisfactorily complete a BPSS criminal background check.