Location – St Austell – Cornwall

Hours of work: 37.5h a week – 7:30am -3:30pm Monday to Friday

Salary – 24K

Why work for Imerys/ IBL?

At Imerys every member of our team matters. Our priority is the health and safety of our people and our aim is to create diverse and inclusive workplaces. We are always striving to be better and to support our people to continuously learn, improve and innovate. This allows them to tap into their full potential and to take advantage of the wealth of career and development opportunities available

The role responsibilities: You will carry out a full range of types of laboratory work to generate data supporting Technical Managers in the field to maintain and develop our mineral sales in board, paper and packaging, providing samples and data to help develop sales in adjacent markets such as paints and coating and the wider Performance Minerals markets, whilst being responsible for;

* Preparation and characterisation of raw materials such as pigment slurries, coating compositions, or pulps.

* Application studies replicating industrial processes such surface coating of board and paper, filling, printing and control of water circuits.

* Testing and analysis such as rheological measurements, characterisation of paper and board surface properties and barrier testing.

* Analysis of data to give accurate mean values with correct estimate of errors

* Compilation of test data in a user-friendly format (Google sheets or excel) for the Technical and Commercial Managers in the field.

* Clear, concise and accurate reporting of results in agreed summary formats (tables /graphs etc).

* Follow safe working procedure in the lab.

What’s in it for you?

Equivalent of 25 days holiday plus Bank Holidays

Generous Pension Plan

Life Assurance

Income Protection

Company Sick Pay

Discounts on external retailers

Cycle to work scheme

We also offer a comprehensive package to support the Wellbeing of our people which includes:

Employee Assistance Programme

Virtual GP

Flu and Eye care vouchers

Enhanced family friendly policies

Menopause Support

What do we ask you in return? As a Laboratory Technician, you will be lab based, providing technical and development support for Paper and Board division. You will also learn about, and develop skills within, the wider Paints and Coatings team to grow the business through Innovation. You will ideally have the following skills;

* A good level of education with a minimum of 5 GCSEs and higher-level physical science qualifications such as A levels in physics, chemistry, maths or T levels.

* Previous experience of working in a laboratory environment

* The ability to work to deadlines and produce results.

* The ability to show initiative and work unsupervised.

* Good I.T. skills

* Good communication skills.

* A desire to undertake further study to improve your knowledge.

We would like our application process to be accessible to all - if you require an alternative way to apply then please get in touch on (phone number removed).

IMERYS is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer, and it is our policy to not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected by federal, state or local laws