Senior Electrochemist

Senior Electrochemist

• Location - West London (Onsite working)
• Type - Permanent
• Salary - £50,000 - £60,000 (Experience Dependant)
• Equity - Tax efficient share scheme, share value equal to base salary
• Holiday - 25 days + public holidays

Our client is a London-based, clean-tech start-up, developing novel hydrogen technology for decarbonisation and increased industrial efficiency. As part of their expansion plans, they are looking to hire an experienced Electrochemist who’s passionate about net-zero missions, excited by innovation, and proactive in its pursuit.

Accountabilities:

• Be responsible for process characterization, optimization, and laboratory-scale testing with a focus on process scaling-up, including electrolyte, electrode, and reactor optimization.
• Design experiments, pioneer new test protocols, and standardize operating procedures.
• Characterize a wide range of metal electrodes for hydrogen evolution and oxygen evolution reactions.
• Oversee all electrochemical processes in the laboratory (e.g., electrodeposition of catalysts on electrodes, RDE-testing, etc.) to guarantee relevance to and compatibility with the electrolysis process.
• Assist with health and safety tasks and HAZOP actions related to process scaling up.
• Manage commercial and academic scientific partnerships.
• Develop future road-mapping and supplier classification.

You will need:

• A PhD in Electrochemical Engineering with a focus on process optimization and scaling up.
• 5 years of experience in electrochemical process optimization, scaling up, and electrochemical R&D environments, ideally within the energy, aerospace, or oil & gas sectors.
• Experience with simulation modelling of electrochemical processes using COMSOL Multiphysics.
• Excellent at handling high volumes of data, distilling technical data, deriving targeted conclusions, and providing direction towards process optimization and scaling up.
• Comfortable with electrochemical measurement techniques, including voltammetry and impedance measurements for materials characterization.
• Strong material science background, ideally specialized in metal alloys and multi-metal oxides.