Jobs in Little Weighton

Site Service Chemist – Industrial Water Treatment – Field based (East Yorkshire, UK)
Our client is a leading global producer of speciality chemicals focused on delivering sustainable solutions for water intensive industries. The company’s product portfolio includes a broad array of water treatment chemistries, process aids and functional additives, as well as state-of-the-art monitoring and control systems. These technologies are used by customers to improve operational efficiencies, enhance product quality, protect plant assets, minimize environmental impact, and maintain healthy water
Duties & Responsibilities
• Reporting to the Central Area Manager you will be expected to achieve your individual commercial targets line with our business strategy.
• The management of industrial water treatment applications, including the routine testing of customers cooling, boiler water, waste water and process treatment applications on your designated sites.
• You will be responsible for servicing water treatment applications on existing customer sites in line with the service schedules, account correspondence, contracts, orders received, assist with new business implementation, troubleshooting and follow up within territory.
• Managing the customers service schedules in line with the sites water treatment program and UK legislation and best practice.
• The specific customers served include, food and beverage, metal processing and general manufacturing.
• You will deal with several of your customers technical and engineering site contacts and commercial buyers.
• You will need to work with processes and systems to ensure that we meet the customer needs and maintain our compliance obligations.
Requirements
The Individual
• Graduate degree, preferably in Chemistry/Chemical Engineering, is an advantage or relevant years of experience in lieu of a degree.
• Progressive experience in sales/account management in the water treatment industry is a distinctive advantage.
• Sound technical knowledge of boiler and cooling water treatment products and applications.
• Knowledge of other water treatment applications, and/or experience in biocides, polymer’s and defoamers is advantageous.
• Customer focused approached – the ability to clearly communicate at all levels, meet the needs and expectations of demanding customers.
• Attention to detail and results focussed – to deliver on our strategic business KPI’s and compliance responsibilities.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills