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Why You Should Apply:
Enhance Your Expertise: Work alongside renowned industry professionals in a cutting-edge laboratory, gaining further experience in GC-MS, GCxGC, and advanced applications development.
Enjoy Outstanding Benefits: After probation, take advantage of a generous flexi-time scheme, allowing you to earn an extra monthly holiday.
Engage Your Curiosity & Communication: If you thrive in a collaborative environment, solving puzzles, spotting things that others miss, and explaining science to others, this position could be the perfect fit.
Make An Impact: You'll have the opportunity to become a technical expert, contributing to impactful innovations across a range of fields, including disease diagnostics, environmental protection and national security.
What you will be doing
As an Applications Chemist, you will be at the forefront of developing, optimising, and evaluating analytical applications that demonstrate the capabilities of state-of-the-art instrumentation and software across diverse markets. Responsibilities will include:-
- Developing and Optimising Analytical Methods: Leading the development and optimisation of analytical methods to highlight the capabilities of GC-MS instrumentation and software across various applications and markets.
- Customer Documentation and Training: Preparing and delivering customer reports, application notes, SOPs, presentations, and technical documentation to support application promotion, delivery, and method handover training.
- Method Validation: Analysing client standards and samples in real-world matrices to validate method performance, focusing on detection limits, carry-over, calibration, reproducibility, and analyte recovery.
- Client Support: Providing prompt client support via phone, email, web meetings, or site visits to ensure seamless operation and build client confidence.
- On-Site Services: After initial onboarding, conducting on-site installation, method setup, training, and performance validation following solution sales, ensuring client satisfaction and sign-off.
What you will need
- A degree or above in chemistry, ideally analytical chemistry or a closely related subject.
- Hands-on experience in industry with GC, or ideally GC-MS.
- Experience with any of the following would be advantageous: GCxGC, headspace, thermal desorption, GC-TOFMS, SPE, LLE, SBSE, SPME, HS, P&T, solvent concentration, liquid injection, large volume injection or dynamic HS.
About the company you'll work with
- An award-winning global organisation with four international subsidiaries, a friendly culture, and very low staff turnover rates.
- Gained an enviable reputation for being a stable, considerate employer with excellent career development opportunities and innovative, market-leading products.
- Sigma Recruitment has placed dozens of people within the hiring business and can personally vouch for its reputation as a stable, fair, considerate employer with a good culture.
About your remuneration package
Competitive salary, with a potential bonus and excellent benefits, including a pension, 24 days of holidays, plus eight bank holidays, a cash healthcare plan for routine healthcare needs, optical, dental physiotherapy, well-being, and counselling: state-of-the-art lab and spacious office suite and free on-site parking.
Interested?
Please click apply; if you don't have an updated CV, don't worry; we can sort that out later. If you want to discuss this before applying, please call the office and quote ref 4535 applications chemist.
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