Quality Assurance Scientist

Contract type: Permanent

Hours: 40 hours per week

Salary: £45,000- £55,000

About the company

Puraffinity Ltd is a rapidly growing scale-up company. We are driven and strive to solve the global problem of toxic forever chemicals in water, working on several water treatment projects in parallel with an eye to develop sustainable solutions. We work collaboratively and value the opinion of every team member. Our mission is focused on protecting environmental and human health.

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 team working environment, and we dedicate 100% of our time to creating a purposeful and sustainable environmental impact.

Why join Puraffinity

This is an exciting period of transition for Puraffinity and a great time to join. We have developed a novel adsorbent material to remove PFAS from water and we are scaling-up production for commercialisation.

This role is the first Quality role Puraffinity, reporting into the Head of Engineering. You will take the lead on shaping and defining our quality processes, ensuring quality is embedded into all our processes and our products.

If you are passionate about Quality and are looking for a role where you will play a key role in our scale-up journey this could be the role for you. We are hiring a talented and meticulous Quality Assurance (QA) Scientist to support us on this journey and ensure that quality is monitored and maintained throughout.

You will be responsible for establishing the quality processes and procedures to accompany the scale-up steps through to the production of our novel adsorbent material, at tollers and partners. The position includes working closely with the product development and engineering teams as well as external partners and suppliers.

Responsibilities

Raw Materials

• Establish the precise specification for each raw material

• Develop and document analytical procedures to determine whether a raw material meets the specifications
• Establish record keeping procedures to track batches of raw materials
• Support the supply chain and procurement processes where necessary

Production

• Develop any analytical procedures required during the production process
• Evaluate the effect of deviations in process parameters and establish the ideal operating windows
• Work closely with colleagues in the scale-up team to ensure that deviations are kept to a minimum in the final process
• Work closely with R&D to ensure quality is maintained during process optimisation
• Establish the feasibility and the limiting factors for the recycling of raw materials

• Support Certificates of Analysis and labelling processes for production
• Work closely with production partners to establish all necessary quality processes

Product

• Establish the specification for the product and the testing procedures to determine this
• Examine inconsistencies in the quality of the product and determine the root causes
• Establish stability testing protocols
• Support compliance with all relevant regulations
• Determine best practices for the storage and transport of the product

About you

You will hold a degree in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering and have gained experience in managing all aspects of quality assurance and control. As this is our first Quality hire you will require experience in implementing new Quality processes

In addition, our ideal candidate will:

• Have strong analytical experience
• Have an unwavering attention to detail
• Have an understanding of both regulations and health and safety, and be able to apply this to all aspects of the role
• Have experience of establishing new processes and procedures
• Be an excellent communicator, able to provide concise information to colleagues across teams and to external parties
• Be proactive in ensuring all aspects of product and production quality are considered

We are searching for a knowledgeable scientist, who is keen to establish themselves in a rapidly growing company. This role offers the opportunity to make a significant impact, both in the short and long term, with plenty of room for development.

• We offer great benefits: Vitality Private Health Care, enhanced pension employer contribution scheme (up to 7.5%), 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)
• We have a very strong diversity and inclusion focus, and in line with this, we have equalised our parental leave and pay for all