Applications Specialist

Sigma Recruitment Limited; Bridgend; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job description

Enhance Your Expertise: Work alongside renowned industry professionals in a cutting-edge laboratory, gaining invaluable hands-on experience in GC-MS and advanced method development.

Enjoy Outstanding Benefits: After probation, take advantage of a generous flexi-time scheme, allowing you to earn an extra monthly holiday.

Engage Your Curiosity & Communication: If you thrive in a collaborative environment, solving puzzles, spotting things that others miss, and explaining science to others, this position could be the perfect fit.

Make An Impact: You'll have the opportunity to become a technical expert, contributing to impactful innovations across a range of fields, including disease diagnostics, environmental protection, and national security.

What you will be doing

As the applications specialist, you'll be a vital link between product development, product marketing, and the customer. You'll be responsible for generating data used in marketing material and feeding back essential market developments and opportunities to help improve and develop new versions of products. Detailed responsibilities will include:

• Developing and executing application work plans to showcase products for marketing collateral and sales support.
• Maintaining and troubleshooting laboratory instrumentation.
• Working alongside the product development team to evaluate new product developments and generate proof statements for new product introductions.
• Liaising with the market development team to assess and demonstrate the application of products to new market areas.
• Writing various reports and application documentation following method development work from concise "Application Briefing Notes" to fully referenced papers for peer-reviewed journals.
• Additional responsibilities will follow after training and in line with experience gained.

What you will need

• The desire to spend most of the working week in the laboratory, gaining knowledge of instruments and method development.
• A degree or above in chemistry, ideally analytical chemistry or a closely related subject AND meet at least ONE of the following criteria:
• Chromatography/mass spectrometry experience, for example, any combination of GC-MS, GC, HPLC, LC, LC-MS, UHPLC, direct-MS, or MS/MS, or
• Hands-on laboratory experience with analytical techniques such as ICP, TGA, or detectors such as SCD, ECD, or FID, as well as either method development or instrument troubleshooting experience, or
• Experience with sample introduction techniques such as headspace (HS), SPME, SPE, direct injection, or LLE, or
• Hold a PhD within a relevant discipline, with significant time spent in the laboratory and experience with any of the above.

About the company you'll work with

• An award-winning global organisation with four international subsidiaries, a friendly culture, and very low staff turnover rates.
• Gained an enviable reputation for being a stable, considerate employer with excellent career development opportunities and innovative, market-leading products.
• Sigma Recruitment has placed dozens of people within the hiring business and can personally vouch for its reputation as a stable, fair, considerate employer with a good culture.

About your remuneration package

Competitive salary, with a potential bonus and excellent benefits, including a pension, 24 days of holidays, plus eight bank holidays, a cash healthcare plan for routine healthcare needs, optical, dental physiotherapy, well-being, and counselling: state-of-the-art spacious offices and seminar suite, free on-site parking, EV chargers, and free fresh fruit on the first Monday of every month.

Interested?

Please click apply; if you don't have an updated CV, don't worry; we can sort that out later. If you want to discuss this before applying, please call the office and quote ref 4550 applications specialist.

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