Senior Process Development Engineer

Puraffinity; London; Hybrid; GBP 125,000 - 150,000

Job description

Role: Senior Process Development Engineer

Location: London

Hours: 40 hours per week

Salary: £50,000 - £60,000

The Opportunity...

Are you ready to take on a pivotal role in scaling up innovative adsorbent media products for PFAS removal? This role offers the chance to lead technical projects that transition from lab-based research to large-scale manufacturing, solving key issues in process optimisation, safety, and cost efficiency.

Imagine yourself collaborating closely with cross-functional teams, sitting between product development and engineering and liaising with external partners, driving the development and optimisation of manufacturing processes. If you are passionate about chemical engineering and thrive in collaborative and innovative settings, this is the opportunity you've been looking for.

What You’ll Be Doing...

Using your expertise, reporting to the Head of Engineering, you will lead the transfer of adsorbent media syntheses from the lab to pilot plant and ultimately to full-scale manufacturing. Your role will involve:

1. Process optimisation: Troubleshooting and optimising lab and pilot scale processes to ensure they meet cost, safety, and environmental standards.
2. Experimentation: Designing and conducting experiments to identify optimal process conditions for scaling up the production of adsorbent media products.
3. Project management: Acting as the main technical point of contact for external scale-up partners and managing the organisation of pilot and scale-up activities.
4. Problem-solving: Collaborating with partners to troubleshoot manufacturing/piloting issues and identify technical solutions for optimal industrial production.
5. Reporting: Compiling high-quality technical reports and presentations.

Using your experience in process development, you will ensure that new adsorbent media products are brought to market efficiently, with optimal performance and safety standards.

This role will include some travel to manufacturing and supplier sites.

What You’ll Need to Be Successful...

To excel in this role, you will need:

1. A degree in Chemical Engineering or Biochemical Engineering.
2. Extensive knowledge and practical experience of working in multi-disciplinary teams to take products from the lab into pilot plant and full-scale manufacture within the chemical or pharmaceutical industries.
3. Experience in the evaluation and scale-up of processes such as mixing, heat transfer, solids handling, solid/liquid separations, drying, and liquid/liquid separations.
4. Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to generate innovative solutions.
5. An understanding of material characterization and analytical techniques (e.g., PSD, FTIR, XPS, TGA-DSC, GC-MS, elemental analysis).
6. Experience in executing capital projects including specification, procurement, installation, and commissioning of process equipment.
7. Experience in generating batch manufacturing records, including in-process testing requirements.

If you have most but not all of the experience required, please still make an application.

If you are ready to make a significant impact in process development and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment, we encourage you to apply and join us on this exciting journey!

About Puraffinity

We are an energetic, customer-driven advanced materials science company focused on designing, developing, and manufacturing smart engineered adsorbent to capture and retain PFAS (Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) from water across the Residential, Commercial, Industrial and Municipal market sectors.

Based in London – UK, Puraffinity was founded in 2015 and since then has become a leading organisation in tackling PFAS, commonly known as The Forever Chemicals, due to its resistance and high mobility.

Our Vision is to provide 1 billion people with PFAS safe water by 2030, and our Mission is to protect environmental and human health by engineering precision materials to capture chemicals in water.

Puraffinity embraces diversity and fosters a collaborative and teamworking environment, and we dedicate 100% of our time to create a purposeful and sustainable environmental impact.

Our Core Values: Collaboration & team first, Adaptability, Take initiative and Empathy.

Puraffinity Benefits

• We offer great benefits: Vitality Private Health and Dental Care.
• Enhanced pension employer contribution scheme (up to 7.5%).
• Unlimited coaching with MoreHappi and mental health coaching and support by Spill.
• We offer shares in Puraffinity for all employees, which means you get recognised and rewarded for your work.
• We care about your learning and development and to support this we have a generous training budget for personal development (up to £2,000 per year).
• A work life balance is important – we offer 25 days annual leave (in addition to the 8 bank holidays) and a hybrid working approach.
• We have a very strong diversity and inclusion focus, and in line with this, we have equalised our parental leave and pay for all.