Product Development Manager (Materials)

St Helens (commutable from Liverpool, Manchester, Warrington and surrounding areas)

Salary - £55,000 - £60,000 (depending on experience)

Permanent

SRG is working with a leading UK manufacturer specialist rubber and glass material products. Based in the St Helens, they have recently started hiring for a new member of their team. This is a great opportunity for a senior chemist or engineer with a background in polymers and materials to take a step into a management role, or someone with previous management experience. Applications encouraged from experienced materials scientists with and without experience managing a team.

Benefits: Discretionary bonus scheme, annual salary reviews, training, voucher rewards scheme, competitive company pension scheme

Role Description

• Advising senior management with product, customer and market insight to inform technical direction and business decisions
• Defining detailed processing parameters to support accurate costing and pricing of new products
• Driving innovation and collaboration by generating new product ideas and working cross‑functionally to solve technical challenges
• Co-ordinating, developing and engineering high performance glass and carbon fibre products for use in various commercial industries such as automotive and construction
• Maintaining a strong customer focus by translating internal and external requirements into effective technical solutions
• Providing technical leadership in an advanced materials R&D environment

Requirements

• Ideally hold a degree/equivalent in a Chemistry, Physics or Materials Science related discipline.
• Significant recent experience in composite/polymer/material R&D
• Ability to identify, gather, analyse, and interpret data to support decision-making and clearly present findings.
• Possess strong practical skills with a high level of attention to detail and accuracy.
• Effective communication/interpersonal skills.
• Problem solving skills.
• Full right to work in the UK.

If you would like to apply for this position, please use the link provided. Alternatively, please email a copy of your CV to For more information regarding this position or any others, please call Will on 0161 667 1819. If you have a scientific background and this position is not relevant / suitable for you, please feel free to get in touch or visit www.srgtalent.com to view our other vacancies.

SRG is the UK's number one recruitment company specialising in the scientific, engineering, clinical, pharmaceutical, food/FMCG, energy & renewables, biotech, chemical and medical device sectors. As scientists ourselves, our specialist sector knowledge and our passion are second to none. It's this combination that makes us different. We're committed to providing outstanding temporary, contract and permanent career opportunities of all levels for our candidates and a comprehensive range of expert strategic recruitment services for our clients.

Keywords: Development, research, thermoset, materials science, chemical, manufacturing, formulation, plastics, polymers, carbon fibre

Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.