Overview
In this hands-on role you will develop and improve automotive coating products, from formulations through to production support. You’ll work across the full development cycle, conducting lab tests, trials, and scale-up while ensuring quality and regulatory alignment. The position sits in a small, specialist team focused on primers, basecoats and clearcoats for automotive applications. You’ll collaborate with production and customers to translate lab work into market-ready solutions, making a tangible impact on product performance and customer satisfaction.
Responsibilities
- Formulate and develop automotive coatings and related products.
- Modify formulations to meet specifications and performance targets.
- Select and evaluate raw materials and assess their impact on stability and performance.
- Conduct lab testing, evaluation, and performance testing.
- Carry out stability checks and quality assurance for consistency.
- Develop and validate test methods aligned with customer and regulatory requirements.
- Apply coatings and assess performance under various conditions.
- Perform lab and customer-site product trials.
- Investigate issues and support technical problem solving.
- Prepare technical reports and development documentation.
- Support transfer of new formulations to production and provide technical support during scale-up.
- Collaborate with production, customers, and other technical teams to implement improvements.
- Ensure compliance with health, safety, quality, and regulatory standards.
- Stay updated on industry standards and technical developments.
Key requirements
- Degree in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering or related discipline.
- Experience or strong understanding of coatings technology and product development.
- Practical laboratory experience in formulation, testing or development.
- Strong attention to detail and methodical testing approach.
- Ability to interpret technical data and produce clear documentation.
- Good communication skills and ability to work with production teams and customers.
- Hands-on across the full product development process.
- Practical and hands-on
- Problem solving orientation
- Attention to detail
- Coatings formulation
- Laboratory testing and performance evaluation
- Product development and scale-up
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