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    Syngenta Group

    Agriculture

    Senior Process Chemist

    Huddersfield, United KingdomOn-SiteFull-timePosted 1w ago
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    Job description

    Join our dynamic Chemical Manufacturing team as a Senior Process Chemist, where you'll drive process optimization and innovation in active ingredient production. This role combines hands-on laboratory work with data-driven decision making to enhance our manufacturing processes, improve efficiency, and deliver sustainable solutions.
    Key Responsibilities:

    • Plan, prepare and carry out chemical experiments on new and existing active-ingredient processes, up to multi-kilo scale.
    • Support the adoption and effective use of laboratory automation, digital tools and structured data practices; apply prior automation experience to identify suitable opportunities and help build team capability.
    • Generate and lead improvement projects from planning through implementation
    • Communicate with cross-functional teams to exchange information and progress development work
    • Maintain detailed documentation in lab notebooks and technical reports
    • Ensure compliance with site, company, and regulatory requirements
    • Contribute to innovation through knowledge sharing and proactive idea development
    • PhD in Chemistry OR Masters in Chemistry with 2+ years industrial experience
    • Excellent practical skills in experimental and analytical techniques
    • Strong problem-solving abilities and analytical thinking
    • Experience with literature searching and information systems
    • Proven ability to plan work independently over extended periods
    • Effective communication skills across various formats and cross-functional teams
    • Strong focus on safety and compliance
    • Digital chemistry knowledge (automation, coding, large language models)
    • Statistical analysis expertise
    • Process development experience
    • Analytical method development capabilities

    At the Huddersfield Manufacturing Centre we make important Crop Protection products that are used in over 120 countries worldwide. These products help our growers to meet the ever-increasing demand for food, feed and fuel, and our talented & dedicated teams make this possible.

    The Huddersfield team is proactive, driven, and friendly, with a strong emphasis on diversity, equality and inclusion.  We work cross functionally to get the job done – come and join us!

    What we offer

    • An extensive benefits package including a generous pension scheme, bonus scheme, private medical & life insurance.
    • Up to 31.5 days annual holiday.
    • 37.5 working hours per week Mon – Fri
    • 3.5 rota days off over Christmas + hours bank of 41 hours to use throughout the year for occasional time off.
    • Flexible working – the role allows for flexibility of hours and hybrid working is open to individual requests where it fits with business needs.
    • We offer a position which contributes to valuable and impactful work in a stimulating and international environment.
    • A strong learning culture and a wide range of training and development opportunities, including support for externally recognized professional qualifications.

    Syngenta has been ranked as a top 5 employer and number 1 in agriculture by Science Journal.

    Syngenta is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or any other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.

    Job details are sourced from the employer's original posting.

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    About the company

    Syngenta Group

    At Syngenta Vegetable Seeds, we’re passionate about helping people in the vegetable industry succeed and putting growers at the heart of all that we do. Our energies are focused on creating solutions that help them get more out of their crops, now and in the future. A commitment in every seed. We do this by protecting seed, bulbs, or small plant quality from the start to enable growers to achieve the highest yield potentials in their operations; continually investing in R&D to bring cutting-edge innovations to the market; and striving to make a real-world difference through more sustainable practices on farms, in shipping, and at the grocery store.

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