Job Title: New Product Development Scientist
Salary: £30,000 per annum (+ bonuses & substantial benefits)
Location: Nantgarw, Cardiff
Hours: 37.5 hours per week (Hours will need to be flexible to meet business needs)
Do you want the opportunity to be part of a long-established, successful company? Then look no further and join the team……no one can do what they do. They currently have an opportunity for a New Product Development (NPD) Scientist to join the highly motivated NPD Team.
The company develops and manufactures speciality enzymes from small to large scale quantities for a variety of industries such as food, flavor, fragrance, life science, pharma and fine chemicals. They are the only company offering a rapid, low-cost speciality enzyme service from discovery phase through to global shipment of regulatory compliant enzymes.
The role:
Reporting to the NPD Manager, this challenging role offers a unique opportunity to work as part of a customer focused NPD team as the high level Technical Lead on projects to successfully develop new enzyme products for customers and markets.
About you
You must have either a Master’s or PhD in Biochemistry, Biology or related subject along with extensive practical (laboratory) experience in one or more of the following: fermentations (bacterial or yeast), downstream processing, molecular cloning, bioinformatics, enzymes, enzyme characterisation and enzyme assays.
You will have excellent communication, planning and organisational skills, have the capacity to analyse situations, diagnose problems and produce logical, practical and cost effective solutions. You will have a questioning approach to your work, the ability to work flexibly and co-operatively within the team. Strong project management experience and commercial awareness would be a distinct advantage in this role.
You will be encouraged to develop your career and be part of our talented team leading the way in the enzyme world.
If you’re interested in joining the team please click on the APPLY button where you’ll be redirected to the careers page to complete your application.
Candidates with experience of: Innovation Scientist, Research and Development, R&D, Chemist, Biochemist, Biochemistry Engineer, Science PhD, Medical Graduate, Microbiology, Biochemical Engineer, Research Scientist, Enzyme Research, Scientific Project Management, Protein Biochemist, Bioinformatics Scientist, Molecular Biology may also be considered for this role.
