Job location: Cornwall, United Kingdom
Created moment: December 19, 2023
Job reference: REQ – 07770
The Company
The world’s leading supplier of mineral-based specialty solutions for industry with 14,000 employees, operations in more than 40 countries, and €4.3 billion in revenue in 2022.
Imerys delivers high-value-added, functional solutions to a great number of sectors, from processing industries to consumer goods. The Group draws on its understanding of applications, technological knowledge and expertise in material science to deliver solutions by beneficiating its mineral resources, synthetic minerals and formulations. Imerys’ solutions contribute essential properties to customers’ products and their performance, including heat resistance, hardness, conductivity, opacity, durability, purity, lightness, filtration, absorption and water repellency. Imerys is determined to develop responsibly, in particular by fostering the emergence of environmentally-friendly products and processes.
If you want to grow your skills and develop your career, find out more at www.imerys.com
The Position
Senior Scientist
Job Summary
Role: Senior Scientist Hours: 40h M-F Location: Stenalees, Cornwall
The joint venture between Imerys and British Lithium:
Imerys British Lithium (IBL) is a joint venture between Imerys S.A. and Lithium Assets Ltd., formerly British Lithium, developing a world class micaceous lithium resource in Cornwall. IBL have developed unique, patented technology for the sustainable recovery of battery grade lithium carbonate from micaceous granite, with the goal of building the world’s first integrated lithium mine, beneficiation plant and refinery producing 20,000tpa of lithium carbonate – enough to support production in the UK of 350,000 electric vehicles per year.
The role: Your role is to lead the bench scale development of novel process technologies for extracting lithium from micaceous granites. You will be responsible for the successful execution of bench-scale trials and provision of scientific design data for the British Lithium Project.
This will involve dialogue with external parties, design engineers, and project stakeholders in defining, specifying and de-risking the process technology that will deliver lithium carbonate product to the market.
Your main responsibilities: You will manage the operations of the Metallurgical Laboratory, including development of the analytical capabilities necessary for process development and QA/QC for commercial implementation and bench-scale process development for the Lithium Carbonate Refinery (LCR) whilst;
- Managing the Process Development team of Scientists undertaking bench-scale process development and pilot plant support.
- Supporting the development and execution of the Technical Development Programme.
- Providing experimental designs, workflow planning and organisation for bench scale trials.
- Managing the interpretation of data and the technical deliverables of the team.
- Ensuring the effective transfer of scientific data into process engineering deliverables for the design of the commercial CAB and LCR plants.
- Producing technical memoranda, progress reports and technical report sections for key Project phases.
- Providing technical expertise in process chemistry, laboratory processes, laboratory safety, and analytical methods.
- Having an input to business decision making in the presence of company Directors and senior stakeholders.
- Overseeing key projects within the Metallurgical Laboratory, ensuring the facility remains capable of delivering the needs of the Technical Development Programme.
What we ask you in return: You will ideally be experienced in mineral and chemical process technologies within a mining environment.
- Have a degree level qualification in Chemistry or an earth science
- Have experience of working in a process laboratory environment, with knowledge of inorganic chemical processes and lithium chemistries
- Have knowledge of health & safety standards and COSHH regulations and, ideally, have a vocational health and safety qualification
- Working knowledge of process design for mineral and chemical processes.
- Have proven experience of managing and developing others.
All roles within Imerys British Lithium require flexibility and ability to adapt. During periods of extended operating campaigns, intense activity and / or reduced staff availability, the role may be required to undertake any activities to support the project, subject to adequate competency for specialist tasks
What’s in for you? You will be working for Imerys, the world leader in mineral-based specialty solutions for industry, with over 16,000 employees and over 200 sites worldwide. Imerys delivers high value-added, functional solutions to diversified sets of industrial sectors, from processing industries to consumer goods. We support your professional development including training, costs, offering a competitive salary and other benefits such as;
- Company sick pay entitlement after 6 months service,
- Life Assurance,
- Defined Contribution Pension Plan,
- 25 days holiday plus Bank Holidays,
- Income Protection for DC members,
- Long Service awards,
- Reward Hub & Local Discounts,
- Flu Vouchers,
- Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme,
- Health & Wellbeing Programme, Eye Care Vouchers,
- Cycle to work scheme and
- Endeavour club (off site gym) to help you stay fit and healthy.
Our people are important to us, our workplaces are diverse and inclusive and whilst maintaining the health, safety and environmental standards on site, for yourself and others around you, we’re an organisation with a wealth of career and development opportunities that allow you to tap into your full potential.
To apply, please visit https://imerys.com/careers/jobs/req-07770
Position Type
Full time and Permanent
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