R&D Assistant, Aircare - Essential Home

Reckitt; Hull and East Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consumer goods company in Hull and East Yorkshire is seeking an R&D Assistant to support delivery projects within the Aircare team. This fast-paced role requires ownership of projects from feasibility to market launch, alongside a strong scientific background. Ideal candidates should have project management awareness, formulation knowledge, and excellent communication skills, with an opportunity for individual growth in a dynamic work environment.

Benefits

Employee Assistance Program

Parental benefits

Global share plans

Qualifications

• Self-starting and capable of working independently and in a team environment.
• Ability to identify and communicate risks.
• Capable of building strong working relationships.

Responsibilities

• Assume ownership for R&D projects and ensure on-time delivery.
• Maintain good communication with other teams to accomplish objectives.
• Implement formulation feasibility work and stability testing.

Skills

Project Management skills awareness

Good formulation knowledge

Ability to interpret results

Good negotiating and interpersonal skills

Good organisational and problem-solving skills

Good analytical skills

Strong intellectual curiosity

Good communication skills

Job description

Essential Home

With a trusted portfolio of world‑class Air Care, Surface, Laundry and Pest Control products, the Essential Home team’s purpose is to Make a House Your Home. Fuelling this newly formed business and leadership team is a diverse and inclusive culture for all. Together, we’re shaping a team with a founder mentality: that listens and learns, and that is entrepreneurial, agile, and action oriented.

With high‑quality brands such as Air Wick, Cillit Bang, Calgon and Mortein, now is an exciting time to join a dynamic company full of purpose, pace and energy, that will create a truly unique learning and career opportunity for all.

Research & Development

In Research and Development, we’re full of highly skilled talents that include Scientists, Engineers, Medical, Clinical and Regulatory professionals – all working to create a cleaner, healthier world. With nine Centres of Excellence, we continually seek out new opportunities by using science, our entrepreneurial flare and our fearless innovation to develop and enhance our existing portfolio, never compromising on quality or performance.

We do the right thing, always, by ensuring we act with responsibility and integrity, by complying with regulatory legislation across the globe, whilst ensuring our products are safe for our consumers and are to the highest quality.

The size of our organisation means you’ll have the opportunity to learn and work in different functions within R&D, giving you exposure to different disciplines, teams and environments. You will also have access to our Research and Development Academy, designed to develop our team and allow you to grow in our great organisation.

About the role

We are hiring an R&D Assistant within our Aircare team at Essential Home. You will be responsible to deliver reliable technical support and laboratory work to support successful implementation of assigned delivery projects.

This is a fast‑paced and dynamic role to assist and drive implementing assigned delivery projects and initiatives from proof of principle feasibility to successful launch into market. In this role ownership, agility to learn and a strong scientific background is strongly required.

Your responsibilities

• Assume ownership for R&D projects, by implementing formulation/device feasibility work, analysis, validation, stability testing, industrial trials and dossier preparation, ensuring they are performed on time and to the required internal and external standards and market conditions.
• Support the instant action and auto‑spray formats (room spray, aerosols & Active Fresh).
• Maintain good communication with other teams and functions to accomplish objectives.
• Knowledgeable with basic laboratory techniques for working at the bench.
• Understand the Product Development Process within the team.
• Read, understand and apply SOP/GLP protocols with regards to:
  • Proper operation, standardization & maintenance of lab equipment
  • Maintaining accurate laboratory notebooks
  • Following the Safety and Good Housekeeping requirements
  • Ensuring that all activities conform to legislative, Health and Safety and Environmental requirements, including the adoption and tracking of laboratory best practices
• Able to manage implementation of NPDs/EPDs under the supervision of R&D associate or manager.
• Ensure that the Project development elements are carried out for each project, in collaboration with the team for example:
  • Production of lab samples and samples for consumer testing
  • Performance tests
  • Stability tests
  • Claim support for marketing claims
  • Support cost‑saving initiatives
• Prepare career development objectives with assistance from line manager.

The experience we’re looking for

• Self‑starting and capable of working independently and in a team environment.
• Project Management skills awareness.
• Good formulation knowledge and understanding of chemical interactions.
• Ability to interpret results from lab tests through statistical analysis of testing data.
• Good negotiating and interpersonal skills.
• Good organisational and problem‑solving skills.
• Ability to identify and communicate risks.
• Capable of building strong working relationships and strong networking skills.
• Good analytical skills.
• Strong intellectual curiosity, appetite for exploring new and previously uncharted territories.
• Good communication skills both written and oral in English and good presentation skills.

The skills for success

R&D, Product Lifecycle Management, Commercial Awareness, Business Partnership, Collaboration, Partnership building, Collaborator, Ability to challenge the status‑quo, Propose improvement, Accountability, Adaptability, Analytical, Formulation, Science, Chemistry.

What we offer

With inclusion at the heart of everything we do, working alongside our four global Employee Resource Groups, we support our people at every step of their career journey, helping them to succeed in their own individual way. We invest in the wellbeing of our people through parental benefits, an Employee Assistance Program to promote mental health, and life insurance for all employees globally. We have a range of other benefits in line with the local market. Through our global share plans we offer the opportunity to save and share in Reckitt’s potential future successes. For eligible roles, we also offer short‑term incentives to recognise, appreciate and reward your work for delivering outstanding results. You will be rewarded in line with Reckitt’s pay for performance philosophy.

Equality

We recognise that in real life, great people don’t always ’tick all the boxes’. That’s why we hire for potential as well as experience. Even if you don’t meet every point on the job description, if this role and our company feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability or medical condition; colour, ethnicity, race, citizenship, and national origin; religion, faith; pregnancy, family status and caring responsibilities; sexual orientation; sex, gender identity, gender expression, and transgender identity; protected veteran status; size or any other basis protected by appropriate law.