Development Chemist

Job Title: Junior Development Chemist
Reporting to: Research & Development Manager
Department: R&D
Location: Corby, Northamptonshire, UK
Salary: Competitive
Shifts: Monday to Friday 08.30-17.00
 
Pertemps are recruiting for a Junior Development Chemist for our Corby based client. You will have a Chemistry degree and ideally have some experience of project-based work.
 
Qualifications and experience:

• Essential: Chemistry degree, specifically within formulation area
• Essential: Project Management Experience, specifically managing development projects within the FMCG area, from brief to commercialisation

 
Nice to have:

• Experience specifically formulating biocides and cosmetic products.
• An awareness of CLP regulations and biocidal claims substantiation testing standard

 
Essential Function:

• With help from the R&D Manager you will be asked to manage research and development projects from brief to scale up to production, taking an active lead with formulation work.
• To be an active member of the Research and Development Team, develop and implement plans to ensure the successful launch of products ensuing products are developed according to the requested launch dates, costs, and claim Briefs can come from both customer requests and internal business strategy.
• Work in collaboration with other departments that may cross over with development projects such as Regulatory, Supply Chain and Marketing, e
• Responsible for technical support, working with Operations and Quality, supporting the Laboratory Supervisor where ne

 
Position Responsibilities:

• Manage new product developments, not limited to new formulation work, from brief through to commercialisation. Ensuring project minutes are accurately documented and updated throughou
• Present projects to key stakeholders such as Commercial and Marketing teams where relevan Present regularly throughout key stages of projects.
• Develop timelines capturing key milestones and launch date
• Review briefs and create development plans, capturing how project requirements are going to be met, including claim substantiation, (Following the relevant industry standards where applicable), shelf-life determination, production trials and costings.
• Work closely with the Regulatory team ensuring project plans and formulation work have considered essential requirements that may be required to ensure the product is complian
• Be an active member in the laboratory ensuring any development tests such as stability samples and samples required for external testing are created accurately and promptly.
• Be an active member supporting the Commercial team with technical queries and samp
• Be active member to help with technical issues such as out of specification results supporting the Quality Manager to overcome these issu
• Be present where necessary for production trials which relate to development projec
• Ensure product claims have been substantiated, accurately, and in accordance with the latest standards where applicabl
• Ensure all chemical ingredients have been reviewed and meet all necessary safety and regulatory requirem Be responsible for providing this information prior to launch.
• Work within expected health and safety protocols set by the busine
• Support the Research and Development Manager with any other duties were deemed nece

 
Interested? Please click apply.