KTP Associate in Chemistry

Northumbria University • Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom • £36,000 - £40,000 / year • 2d ago

We are looking for a driven candidate with a chemistry background (including chemical engineering, materials science, polymers or a related discipline) whose ambitions align with our goal in delivering tangible, real-world and high impacting research addressing sustainability in industrial plastic processes.

The Knowledge Transfer Partnership scheme is highly regarded, bringing together collaborations between academia and industry. This position is ideal for a candidate who can combine their strong academic skills with a desire to work within industry, who can oversee the implementation of their successful work and make change within a business. As well as a great opportunity to apply research skills developed during your academic career to an industrial setting, you will up-skill yourself in this multidisciplinary project spanning chemistry, chemometrics, materials science, life cycle assessment and even civil engineering.

Further information is available in the job description and person specification.

This is a fixed term role for 24 months

About the team

You will be joining a team consisting of academics and industrialists who are specialists across these disciplines as well as a world-leading manufacturer of PVC, INEOS compounds.

You will be based at Ineos’s site in Newton-Aycliffe, and will also have access to cutting edge facilities at Northumbria University situated in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne.

You will be delivering an ambitious innovation project which will tackle the production line of PVC compounds. The project’s scope spans the development and implementation of a semi-automated analytical strategy, process development for dematerialisation and waste valorisation to new products, and finally quantifying the environmental impact of the developed processes.

The opportunities available to you:

Leading and delivering a challenging and strategic R&D project on dematerialisation and waste valorisation of industrial processes that directly impacts the business and their clients
Support from a wide-ranging academic team with specialist knowledge and experience relevant to the project
Potential to be retained in a permanent position within the company at the end of the project
Gaining skills and experience pertinent to the multidisciplinary themes of the project
Healthy £4,000 professional training and personal development budget
For the job description and person specification, please review the available documents.

This post is located primarily at INEOS Compounds, Aycliffe Business Park, School Aycliffe Ln, Newton Aycliffe, DL5 6EA, with the expectation the post-holder will also conduct some lab-based work and analysis at Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 8ST.

Find out more about INEOS Compounds: www.ineos.com/businesses/ineos-enterprises/businesses/ineos-compounds

Find out more about the SPIN group within the Applied Sciences Department at Northumbria University: www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/academic-departments/applied-sciences/business/spin-synthesis-and-polymer-innovation

To arrange an informal conversation with one of the project team, please contact: Dr. James Railton: james.railton@northumbria.ac.uk

£36,000 to £40,000 depending on experience

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