Location: Scale Space, London W12 7RZ

Hours: 40 hours per week

Salary: £45,000 - £55,000

The opportunity....
Join us as a Process Development Scientist and help take novel materials from lab scale through to large scale manufacturing.

Are you excited by the idea of owning process chemistry projects? This is an opportunity to be part of something from the ground up, scaling up a brand-new process and contributing to the development of our in-house manufacturing capabilities.

You’ll work at the interface of R&D and process development, gaining hands-on experience in taking innovative products from the lab through to commercial scale. Collaborating with talented team members, you’ll play a key role in shaping how our materials are made at scale.

If you're looking for high-impact with project ownership, technical variety, and cross-functional collaboration, we’d love to hear from you.

What you’ll be doing...

• Design and perform experiments to enhance understanding of reaction chemistry to optimise manufacturing processes.

• Research and test new synthetic routes to improve manufacturing efficiency.

• Collaborate with third-party manufacturers to translate R&D learning into large scale production and provide continuous process development support.

• Work closely with analytical scientists to ensure product quality and reproducibility investigate reaction monitoring processes where applicable

• Embed process chemistry considerations in new material development projects.

• Design and conduct experiments to assess the impact of process parameters on product quality and establish the tolerances of these parameters.

• Collaborate with process engineers to translate findings into actionable recommendations.

• Help to build-out Puraffinity’s in-house scale-up capabilities

• Ensure compliance with HSE guidelines, writing necessary documentation like COSHH forms and risk assessments.

• Share knowledge and expertise with the team.

What you’ll need to be successful...

To excel in this role, you’ll need a strong foundation in chemistry and industrial experience in process development. Your expertise in scaling products from lab to full-scale manufacturing will be crucial, as will your ability to optimise processes and design efficient synthetic routes.

Beyond your technical skills, your adaptability and creativity will be essential as you navigate new materials and processes, leveraging both your experience and innovative thinking. Collaboration will be at the heart of your success, working alongside scientists, engineers, and various third parties to translate chemical processes into successful manufacturing operations.

About Puraffinity

We are an energetic, customer-driven advanced materials science company focused on designing, developing, and manufacturing smart engineered adsorbent to capture and retain PFAS (Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) from water across the Residential, Commercial, Industrial and Municipal market sectors.

Based in London – UK, Puraffinity was founded in 2015 and since then has become a leading organisation in tackling PFAS, commonly known as The Forever Chemicals, due to its resistance and high mobility.

Our Vision is to provide 1 billion people with PFAS safe water by 2030, and our Mission is to protect environmental and human health by engineering precision materials to capture chemicals in water.

Puraffinity embraces diversity and fosters a collaborative and teamworking environment, and we dedicate 100% of our time to create a purposeful and sustainable environmental impact.

Our Core Values: Collaboration & team first, Adaptability, Take initiative and Empathy

Puraffinity Benefits

• We offer great benefits: Vitality Private Health and Dental Care

• Enhanced pension employer contribution scheme (up to 7.5%)

• Unlimited coaching with MoreHappi and mental health coaching and support by Spill

• We offer shares in Puraffinity for all employees, which means you get recognised and rewarded for your work

• We care about your learning and development and to support this we have a generous training budget for personal development (up to £2,000 per year)

• A work life balance is important – we offer 25 days annual leave (in addition to the 8 bank holidays) and a hybrid working approach

• We have a very strong diversity and inclusion focus, and in line with this, we have equalised our parental leave and pay for all