Senior Research & Development Chemist
Headhunters (Head Office)
- R Undisclosed
- Permanent Intermediate position
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Gauteng
- Posted 01 Jul 2024 by Headhunters (Head Office)
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Job 2572229 - Ref PE002523
About the position
Our client in the Chemical Sector, based in East Rand, is currently looking to employ an experienced Senior Research & Development Chemist.
Job Overview:
Administrate and coordinate all activities in the research and development laboratory, ensuring all products are manufactured in a timely and cost-effective manner.
An exciting career opportunity awaits you!
Requirements:
- Degree in Chemistry / Science / Engineering preferred.
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in chemicals manufacturing environment, pigment dispersions, paint technology, or coatings applications.
- Direct colorant and/or paint formulation experience is desirable.
- Academic background in coatings chemistry, polymer chemistry, surfactant technology, or rheology is desirable.
- Experience using color databases such as Data Color or Lago.
- Ability to manage complex batch production with a vast range of equipment and resources.
Responsibilities, but not limited to:
1. Research & Development:
- Formulate new colorant products and reformulate existing products for improvements.
- Perform application testing to demonstrate properties of colorants for specific customer needs.
- Interact with customers regarding technical matters.
- Evaluate new raw materials for potential use in our products.
- Generate ideas for future developments and uses for colorants beyond ordinary applications.
- Interact with raw material suppliers.
2. Process Improvement:
- Review the manufacturing process, to optimize the process and to minimize process times for every stage and eliminate waste.
- Evaluate raw materials to seek best performing raw material within its class and reduce complexity with the raw materials class.
- Lead projects which encompass product modification to improve performance and process ability.
- Review batch card instructions and undertake changes to provide clarity to facilitate ease of manufacture.
- Participate in batch card routing development and seek methods to optimize manufacturing process and reduce dwell times.
- Enact Quality Control procedures to resolve production problems or minimize costs.
- Perform experiments to ascertain the benefits of modifications before releasing to production.
Kindly be advised that should you not receive a response within two weeks of applying, please consider your application unsuccessful.
Desired Skills:
- chemistry
- colorant
- manufacture
- research
- lab
- raw material
- quality
Headhunters (Head Office)
About the agency
Headhunters is privately owned and managed Boutique Recruitment Consultancy specializing in the permanent placement of Executive, Commercial and Technical staff, nationally, across all sectors.
Headhunters represents the rich diversity of a multi-cultural South Africa and has established a reputation as a market leader in intelligent recruiting. In the pursuit of service excellence, Headhunters combines the emotional (EQ) and intellectual (IQ) facets of HR skills and talent, thereby adding value to support your employee retention strategy, and ultimately, business success.
Managing Director and owner, Michael Tuohy, is passionate about recruitment and customer centricity; concludes; “At Headhunters, we’re small enough to care but big enough to make an impact! Genuine passion and enthusiasm for what we do, coupled with our ability to respond and adapt swiftly to clients’ needs, has been the catalyst for success for scores of thriving organisations country-wide.”
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