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We’recommitted to making a positive impact on the world, providing you with diverse learning and working opportunities, and fostering a culture where everyone’sempowered to be their best.\n2K is a leading manufacturer of high performance, two component polymer products for anchoring, bonding, and repair applications. We have been manufacturing anchoring products for safety critical applications for more than 56 years and they are now used in more than 82 countries around the world for over 100 million fixing and anchoring applications each year.We are seeking a Product Development Chemist to support the development, testing, and continuous improvement of our product portfolio. This role is responsible for laboratory research, product formulation, technical documentation, quality investigations, and supporting the successful transfer of new and modified products into production. The successful candidate will collaborate with cross-functional teams, customers, and suppliers to deliver innovative, high-quality solutions while ensuring compliance with quality, safety, and environmental standards.\nKey Responsibilities:\nTo complete allocated product development tasks and projects to agreed timetable, standards and budgets, recording all events and data within the Project System.\nTo ensure that the R&D laboratory functions effectively, meeting standards in respect of quality, health & safety and hygiene and that equipment is well maintained.\nTo keep accurate and comprehensive records of all testing and research activities.\nTo work to a weekly laboratory work plan for the product portfolio.\nTo support Production with the transfer of a new product or a modified existing product from laboratory to production, investigating and resolving any areas of concern.\nTo liaise with the Quality Manager about quality issues including specifications, production issues, non-conformances and any other QC matters on the associated product portfolio.\nTo support the Senior Product Development Chemists and Quality Manager with the investigation of customer and supplier complaints. To help establish root causes and corrective action.\nTo create and maintenance of associated PMC, PMF, PMI, BPF and BPI on the Company’s ERP software on matters of BOM, release criteria and attachments (COSHH and batch cards) for the associated product portfolio.\nTo deputise for the Senior Product Development Chemist in matters relating to the product portfolio.\nTo gather, compile and interpret data in order to contribute to project reports. To provide data and work activity updates for the Technical Manager’s monthly report.\nTo liaise with customers and suppliers in relation to the product portfolio and represent the Company at meetings as required, striving to maintain the company’s competitive position and reputation for technical performance and quality.\nTo liaise with all departments across the company about the product portfolio including sales, product engineering, production and quality.\nTo ensure laboratory activity is within the Company Quality, H&S and Environmental policies.\nTo keep up to date with changes in legislation, market trends and developments within their polymer market sectors, continuously seeking new potential opportunities and ideas.\nTo develop own knowledge, experience and observations in order to contribute and make recommendations to the Senior Product Development Chemist. To support and uphold the values of continuous improvement methods and activities.\nTo develop an excellent understanding of the product range, its formulation and commercial applications.\nTo work as a team within the R&D team providing cover and support to each other.\nRequirements:\nGood general education to at least GCSE level including English and Maths\nEducation to Degree level or above in chemistry (or equivalent)\nSome experience of working in a manufacturing business involved with 2 component polymer chemistry.\nExperience of working in a commercial laboratory including a range of testing techniques.\nAn interest in product development and project management.\nIT skills to include Microsoft Office (Word, Excel), and use of databases\nAccurate, thorough and methodical approach to research\nOrganised self-starter with good problem-solving ability\nCuriosity and a desire to learn and develop continuously.\nGood analysis, documentation and report writing skills\nAdaptable and flexible, a team player with a ‘can do’ attitude\nFollowing receipt of a conditional offer of employment, candidates will be required to complete additional job-related screening processesas permitted or required by applicable law.","description_format":"text","description_chars":4835,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"English","level":"All levels","optional":false}]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Industrial Machinery","Electrical Equipment & Cables","Leasing, Auto & Equipment Finance"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-30T18:35:56Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":63,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.632,"p_room":1,"age_days":1,"expected_fill_days":38,"reasons":["conf:11","stale_co","velocity","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-11-01T06:10:25Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/marmon-holdings-product-development-chemist","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/marmon-holdings-product-development-chemist.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-01T22:55:13Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":34876,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-02T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":5432},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=5432"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fmarmon-holdings-product-development-chemist"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fmarmon-holdings-product-development-chemist"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fmarmon-holdings-product-development-chemist"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/marmon-holdings-product-development-chemist\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fmarmon-holdings-product-development-chemist"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3538819}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"marmon.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3538819},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); 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