Chief Technology Officer
Full job description
Laboratory Solutions Recruitment
Salary: £90,000 – £114,000 per year
Lab Solutions are looking to hire a CTO for a VC funded environmentally friendly, chemical company.
Chemical company and environmentally friendly usually do not go hand in hand, but this startup has technology that can help recover precious metals from waste water without having to use very strong acids.
This is literally the start of this company, you will be working alongside the CEO and this company has experienced advisors in the background to lean on.
This CTO role will need you to be hands on, be able to travel to client’s sites globally and be one the main faces of the company!
This company now needs to scale up from grams to kilo’s to tonnes and the chemical polymers they use are also trying to be recycled after the extraction process, very exciting tech!
Interested in jumping both feet in and having a different day, everyday? Read on!
Team management
- Manage a small team of up to 5-10 research chemists (Essential)
- Train, organise and communicate with scientists and Oxford University research students and post-doctoral researchers (Essential)
- Manage conflict and resolve internal issues professionally (Essential)
Experience and Education
- A PhD (or good first degree) in organic chemistry, coordination chemistry or a related area prior to taking up the appointment (Essential)
- 3+ years of hands-on experience of manufacturing, developing, scaling and synthesizing chemicals to pilot-scale (kg scale or larger) (Essential)
- Experience with process design and experience with scaling solutions from lab to full-scale in a chemical or process engineering environment (Essential)
- Capable of formulating and developing procedures for operations, health & safety, and synthesis (Essential)
- Experience with selective metal separation technologies (Ion exchange, membranes, solvent extraction, and electrolysis) in a manufacturing or environmental context. (Desirable)
If interested then please do apply and a consultant will come back to you asap!
To apply for this job please visit definitejobs.co.uk.