# Technical Services Chemist

SUMMARY: Take your chemistry experience beyond routine laboratory testing. Our client, a resin manufacturer in Durban, is looking for a Technical Services Chemist to improve product performance, adapt formulations and help customers resolve practical application challenges. Reporting to the Technical Services Manager, you will combine laboratory investigation with customer-facing technical support. Your work will range from resolving immediate product queries to contributing to longer-term research and development, including new polymers, alternative raw materials and more sustainable technologies. POSITION INFO: What the role involves Adapt resin formulations to meet customer specifications and prepare samples for trials. Investigate product quality concerns and customer complaints, translating laboratory findings into practical recommendations. Evaluate alternative raw materials and support technical decisions across quality control, production, procurement and sales. Contribute to product improvements, new launches and research into competing products, application methods and potential markets. Identify suitable ways to rework or blend rejected, expired and excess stock.

- **Id**: 3678741
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/assegai-technical-services-chemist>
- **Role**: Science & Research
- **Role family**: Science & Research
- **Seniority**: junior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Pinetown, South Africa
- **Countries**: ZA
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-08T00:00:00Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-10-08T00:00:00Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 31
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2387
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Natural Resources

## Company

- **Id**: 4497498
- **Name**: Assegai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/assegai-2>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 31

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-03T12:03:00Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 24
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 0.6
- **P active**: 0.739
- **P room**: 0.55
- **Age days**: 30
- **Expected fill days**: 22
- **Reasons**: seen:30, win:tail, comp:junior
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

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