Senior Chemist

Overview

In this Senior Chemist role, you will advance carbon materials from development to production. You’ll work with an interdisciplinary chemistry team to design routes, assess upgraded materials, and help scale production. Your expertise will help optimise materials usage, improve purification processes, and ensure safe laboratory practices. This position offers a chance to shape high-value carbon materials within a collaborative, innovative environment.

Pay / Benefits

• Pension with 5% employer contributions
• 25 days holiday plus UK bank holidays
• Share option scheme
• Relocation assistance
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Responsibilities

• Contribute to designing routes to produce high-value carbon materials from base carbon materials
• Evaluate suitability of upgraded carbon materials for targeted applications
• Collaborate on separation method design to purify carbon materials
• Characterise carbon materials using techniques such as BET, XRD, SEM
• Optimize energy and material use to reduce production costs with the chemistry team
• Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to develop practical production methods
• Support catalyst production operations alongside carbon materials development
• Support scale-up activities in collaboration with the chemistry team
• Ensure safety compliance and maintain a clean, organised lab workspace (risk assessment and COSHH)

Key requirements

• Advanced degree, preferably a Ph.D. in chemistry
• 5+ years of post-university research in carbon materials or related field
• Experience with microwave energy-driven chemical reactions is highly desirable
• Strong knowledge of carbon materials and activation processes
• Familiarity with laboratory safety protocols and practices
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work independently with collaborative, multidisciplinary team orientation

• problem-solving
• communication
• collaboration
• Carbon materials activation and production
• Characterisation techniques: BET, XRD, SEM
• Process optimisation

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