Senior Scientist

CK Group are recruiting for a Senior Scientist to join a technology company at their site based in Cheshire on a permanent basis. The role offers a salary of up to £40,000 per annum depending on experience.
As part of their continued expansion, our client are seeking a highly capable Senior Scientist to join our dynamic and innovative team. Based at their new state-of-the-art laboratory facilities in Daresbury, the successful applicant will be working collaborativelywith team members to develop performance enhancing coating formulations for porous membrane substrates used for water treatment and separation process in a wide variety of industrial sectors around the world.
**Key roles and responsibilities**:

- Development of new functional coatings for porous substrates, especially polymer and ceramic membranes.
- Engage with raw material suppliers, building collaborative relationships.
- Evaluation of raw materials through testing and effective communication with suppliers and internal team.
- Refinement of existing coatings by building on desirable properties or development of entirely new coatings.
- Act as the point of contact for a number of projects.
- Develop robust coating / printing processes, which are well understood and repeatable. An understanding of statistical quality control tools is desirable.
- Maintaining laboratory consumables and chemical stock.
- Display excellent communication skills for both internal and external stakeholders.
- Ph.D. qualified in a relevant field
- 3-5 years experience in running research and development programmes
- 2 years experience managing a small team
- Demonstrable working knowledge of formulation, coatings and membrane filtration (desirable)
- Confident and clear communicator at ease delivering results informally to colleagues and formally in presentations
- Proactive in updating supervising staff members.
- Excellent and organised project manager
- Ability to influence internally and externally, to ensure project success

**Apply**:
It is essential that applicants hold entitlement to work in the UK. Please quote job reference 53490 in all correspondence.