Process Chemist

About Lubrizol 

The Lubrizol Corporation, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is a specialty chemical company whose science delivers sustainable solutions to advance mobility, improve wellbeing and enhance modern life. Founded in 1928, Lubrizol owns and operates more than 100 manufacturing facilities, sales, and technical offices around the world and has about 8,000 employees. For more information, visit www.Lubrizol.com. 

We value diversity in professional backgrounds and life experiences. By enabling a consistent, unbiased, and transparent recruitment process, Lubrizol seeks to create a positive experience for candidates so we can get to know them at their best. We recognise unique work and life situations and offer flexibility, ensuring our employees feel engaged and fulfilled in every aspect of life. 

Job Title: Process Chemist

Job Location: Huddersfield

Job type: permanent

Type of role: on site

Join Our Thriving Team at Lubrizol as a Technician Apprentice

Unleash Your Potential. At Lubrizol we’re transforming the industry and looking for exceptional talent to join us on this journey. If you are ready to join an international company with talent around the world, and want to make a real impact, we want you on our team.

What Will Be Your Environment:

The Huddersfield Plant is situated in Yorkshire, with <50 employees

Our site specialises in the manufacture of additives for Lubrizol Performance Coatings. Working to ISO 9001:2015 and ISO-14001:2015 standards, the plant specializes in manufacturing both aqueous and solvent based resins, polymers, dispersants and adhesion promoters for the metals and coatings industries.

Working with our customers, we produce essential ingredients in the formulation of organic and inorganic pigments used in the paints and coatings, printing inks, plastics, wood finishing and metal coatings industries. Our products give the end user extremely efficient particle dispersion, particle size stability and provide the highest level of appearance and performance. The products manufactured at Huddersfield are widely used across the world.

What You’ll Do:

As a Process Chemist, you will provide onsite process support and solutions to the plant for new and existing products and processes. You will timely and efficiently trouble shoot, process plant issues. You will perform continuous monitoring of plant processes to proactively avoid processing, quality and safety issues, and carry out projects focused on continuous improvement initiatives with particular focus on improvements to existing products or processes and safety. You will also support the scale up of new products to plant.

You’ll collaborate with a diverse group of passionate individuals to deliver sustainable solutions to advance mobility, improve wellbeing and enhance modern life.

What We’re Looking For:

We are looking for an individual to carry out and participate in the development of projects to improve existing products or processes, conduct testing following all lab procedures and standards of care, ensuring completeness and accuracy of testing undertaken and results reported.

You will Coordinate new product introductions or raw material changes on plant with technical, production, quality and planning departments, and provide in process troubleshooting and support to the plant as well as continuing monitoring of plant processes. You will prioritise safety by actively participating in safety initiatives, e.g. stop work authority or SAROS, and operate in a safe manner.

Some tasks but not an exhaustive list:

• Optimise existing processes to provide safety and quality improvements, cost savings, process efficiencies and energy saving opportunities.
• Carry out raw material evaluations and lab trials of alternative raw materials for customer evaluation.
• Provide in the moment troubleshooting to support plant and production requirements.
• Maintain and contribute to plant MOC procedures.
• Provide recipe and spec support for new products and existing product changes.
• Provide support for QC on long term collaborative projects.
• Coordinate between the R&D department, planning and operations over introduction of new products or process changes.
• Carry out projects relating to development or improvement of analytical methods for analyses of in process parameters.
• Conduct testing following all lab procedures and standards of care, ensuring completeness and accuracy of testing undertaken and results reported.
• Operate in a safe and environmentally responsible manner and support site safety and environmental initiatives.
• Operate in a manner that promotes Lubrizol cultural initiatives and continuous improvement ideology.
• Participate in root cause analysis and incident investigations as required.

Skills That Make a Difference:

• Bachelor’s degree in chemistry, chemical engineering or other related science/engineering discipline.
• Strong and evidence problem solving and project management skills
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Excellent planning, organizational and time management skills
• Ability to work independently
• Strong attention to detail and a methodical approach to project work
• Ability to work in a fast paced, collaborative, team environment
• Strong IT skills and a good knowledge of Microsoft Office applications.

Considered a Plus:

• Knowledge of experimental design (DOE) and data analysis.
• Knowledge and application of SAP software.

Experience of analytical equipment e.g. viscometers, Titrandos, FTIR etc.

Perks and Rewards That Inspire:

We offer competitive compensation, and comprehensive benefits including:

• Discretionary bonus
• Bupa Healthcare
• Wellbeing support
• 26.5 days holiday (plus bank holidays)
• Competitive Pension Scheme
• Share Incentive Plan
• Free Car Parking

Ready for your next career step? Apply today and let’s shape the future together!

It’s an exciting time to be part of Lubrizol. Lubrizol is not staying put. We are continually learning and evolving. Our passion delivers our success — not only for Lubrizol but for those who count on us every day: our employees, customers and communities.

We work with a relentless commitment to operate safely and responsibly, keeping safety, sustainability, ethics, and compliance at the forefront of everything we do. The well-being of our employees, customers and communities is paramount to our culture and in the way we approach our work.

As a diverse, global team, we work together to solve some of the world’s most pressing challenges. We impact everyday lives through science only Lubrizol can deliver, and we never stop pushing to do it better.

One of the founding principles of The Lubrizol Corporation more than 90 years ago was treating every employee with dignity and respect. That same commitment is only stronger today. 

More than that, we are committed to providing an environment where every employee can be the best they can be, no matter their ethnic origin, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or any other characteristic. 

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