Location – St Austell – Cornwall
Hours of work: 37.5h a week – 7:30am - 3:30pm Monday to Friday
Salary – 24K
Why work for Imerys/ IBL?
At Imerys, every member of our team matters. Our priority is the health and safety of our people, and our aim is to create diverse and inclusive workplaces. We are always striving to be better and to support our people to continuously learn, improve, and innovate. This allows them to tap into their full potential and to take advantage of the wealth of career and development opportunities available.
The role responsibilities:
You will carry out a full range of types of laboratory work to generate data supporting Technical Managers in the field to maintain and develop our mineral sales in board, paper, and packaging, providing samples and data to help develop sales in adjacent markets such as paints and coatings and the wider Performance Minerals markets, whilst being responsible for:
1. Preparation and characterisation of raw materials such as pigment slurries, coating compositions, or pulps.
2. Application studies replicating industrial processes such as surface coating of board and paper, filling, printing, and control of water circuits.
3. Testing and analysis such as rheological measurements, characterisation of paper and board surface properties, and barrier testing.
4. Analysis of data to give accurate mean values with correct estimate of errors.
5. Compilation of test data in a user-friendly format (Google Sheets or Excel) for the Technical and Commercial Managers in the field.
6. Clear, concise, and accurate reporting of results in agreed summary formats (tables/graphs, etc.).
7. Follow safe working procedures in the lab.
What’s in it for you?
Equivalent of 25 days holiday plus Bank Holidays.
Generous Pension Plan.
Life Assurance.
Income Protection.
Company Sick Pay.
Discounts on external retailers.
Cycle to work scheme.
We also offer a comprehensive package to support the wellbeing of our people which includes:
1. Employee Assistance Programme.
2. Virtual GP.
3. Flu and Eye care vouchers.
4. Enhanced family-friendly policies.
5. Menopause Support.
What do we ask you in return?
As a Laboratory Technician, you will be lab-based, providing technical and development support for the Paper and Board division. You will also learn about and develop skills within the wider Paints and Coatings team to grow the business through innovation. You will ideally have the following skills:
1. A good level of education with a minimum of 5 GCSEs and higher-level physical science qualifications such as A levels in physics, chemistry, maths or T levels.
2. Previous experience of working in a laboratory environment.
3. The ability to work to deadlines and produce results.
4. The ability to show initiative and work unsupervised.
5. Good I.T. skills.
6. Good communication skills.
7. A desire to undertake further study to improve your knowledge.
We would like our application process to be accessible to all - if you require an alternative way to apply then please get in touch on (phone number removed).
IMERYS is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer, and it is our policy to not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of colour, religion, marital status, genetic information, veteran status, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local laws.
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