Analytical Chemist

Responsibilities

Working integrally within the BYK Widnes R&D department, this is a hands-on laboratory-based role. Core responsibilities include:

1. Providing analytical chemistry service to the BYK Widnes Technical centre and our global partners.
2. Supporting the Widnes site production in quality incident resolution and stock management.
3. Delivering BYK Widnes raw material approvals.
4. Providing bench chemist support to new product development projects.

The role will require competency in inorganic analytics and will be the main service provider for atomic force microscopy for all global partners. Additionally, the role will lead investigations into existing and new specialised characterisation techniques in areas of novel inorganic materials and formulation science, and have involvement in third-party collaborations to extend our range of commercially available additives. Reviewing technical literature, attending conferences, and working with academic partners to improve characterisation of existing and new materials to support new R&D projects and meet regulatory challenges to expand the product portfolio will be key.

Requirements

• Manage analytical labs and review, improve and validate existing analytical methods as well as ensure area risk/CoSHH assessments are up-to-date and acted upon.
• Ensure R&D assets are maintained to a high standard.
• Product Development Project management, including project initiation, stage gate management, lab work-flow management, and reporting.
• Oversee raw material management work-flow.
• Provide technical support to operations, particularly for quality incident resolution.
• Develop and write new analytical test protocols.
• Use analytical and statistical tools to provide expert analysis of resulting data.
• Identify and implement new characterisation tools to improve our ability to develop new products.
• Provide and maintain detailed wish lists for analytical laboratory capital purchases, including cost, human resource, and business justification.
• Maintain strong internal relationships and work as part of, or lead multidisciplinary teams with all relevant internal functions globally.
• Deliver technical reports and updates promptly.

Our Plus

In the ALTANA Group, you will work in a unique culture of innovation where the utmost importance is attached to promoting individual ideas and abilities as well as open, trusting interaction.

BYK Additives UK Ltd offers you a lot of advantages, including the opportunity to work within a dynamic team in a successful business, a competitive salary and benefits package, participation in the site bonus scheme, and the company pension scheme after a qualifying period, generous annual holiday entitlement, and excellent development opportunities.

Job number: AW00285

Legal entity: BYK Additives Ltd. (UK)

Location: Widnes, Cheshire

About us

We are ALTANA: one group of companies - four divisions: BYK, ECKART, ELANTAS, and ACTEGA. Global leader in specialty chemicals with over 6,700 employees, sales of around 2.7 billion euros, and myriad opportunities for you to develop and grow. Would you like to enrich your life with this decisive plus?

BYK, as part of the ALTANA Group, is a leading global supplier of specialty chemicals. Our innovative BYK additives improve scratch resistance and surface gloss, mechanical strength or flow behaviour of materials, and properties such as UV-and light stability or flame retardancy. BYK has a global network of subsidiaries and employs a workforce of more than 2,500 people worldwide.

BYK Additives Limited based in Widnes is a leading manufacturer of specialty chemicals, supplying additives to the coatings, consumer care, oil field, and other specialty markets. The site has been the home of inorganic chemical manufacture since 1923 and has been part of the BYK Division of ALTANA AG, a privately owned specialty chemicals company, since 2013.

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ALTANA AG and its subsidiaries is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with disability.