Process Development Scientist
ResourceBank Recruitment
- Stenalees, Cornwall
- Permanent
- Full-time
- A member of the Process Development team, conducting laboratory bench-scale metallurgical and process chemistry test work at either British Lithium in-house facilities or external laboratories.
- Ensuring the safe operation of laboratory equipment, including Atomic Adsorption Spectrometer and portable XRF machinery, contribution to sustaining capital and improvement capital requests, logging and recording trial and analytical data, and technical reporting of the outcomes of bench-scale trials.
- You may be required to deputise for the Person in Charge (PIC) of the Metallurgical Laboratory facility and equipment, or a sub-area thereof.
- Undertaking basic maintenance and calibrations of laboratory equipment.
- Coordinating samples for analytical assays, including collecting, labelling, and shipping.
- Ensuring the safe storage, use and disposal of chemicals in the laboratory. This includes updating COSHH records and contributing to COSHH Risk Assessments.
- Contributing to reviewing, developing and maintaining QA/QC polices for the collection, testing and analysis of samples, ensuring proper chain of custody.
- Developing experimental programmes to support process engineering design activities.
- Producing technical memoranda, progress reports and technical report sections for key Project phases.
- Undertaking sample collection, sample preparation, drying, filtration, splitting, crushing, pulverising, pelletising, pXRF testing.
- Have a degree level qualification in Chemistry or an earth science
- Have experience of working in a process laboratory environment, with knowledge of inorganic chemical processes and lithium chemistries
- Have knowledge of health & safety standards and COSHH regulations and, ideally, have a vocational health and safety qualification
- Working knowledge of process design for mineral and chemical processes.
- Company sick pay entitlement after 6 months service,
- Life Assurance,
- Defined Contribution Pension Plan,
- 25 days holiday plus Bank Holidays,
- Income Protection for DC members,
- Long Service awards,
- Reward Hub & Local Discounts,
- Flu Vouchers,
- Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme,
- Health & Wellbeing Programme, Eye Care Vouchers,
- Cycle to work scheme and
- Endeavour club (off site gym) to help you stay fit and healthy.