Research Fellow or Technical Director or Chief Scientific Officer Chemist (CO2 Capture and Utilisation)

Location: 70% home office - 30% Lab (Nottingham)

About us:

Concrete4Change (C4C) is a R&D company that is developing a ground-breaking technology to utilise and permanently mineralise CO2 in concrete.

C4C technology won a wide range of awards including the United Nations (UN) most innovative Net-Zero technology Climate Challenge Cup at COP26 in Glasgow, Royal Academy of Engineering and UN SDG. C4C is partly owned by two of the largest concrete manufacturers in the World (Siam Cement Group and Goldbeck GmBH). C4C is running several projects in partnership with University of Nottingham, University of Sheffield & University of Warwick (total project value of £1.2M for 2022-2023).

This position has a significant progress opportunities in a fast-growing team. You will be part of the core management team in order to deliver the C4C milestones and directly contribute to C4C’s growth.

Please see the person specification and roles & responsibilities below:

Essential:

• 3 years’ post PhD experience leading independent research, ability to design and conduct research addressing fundamental scientific questions
• Understanding of laboratory setup, HSE requirements, experience in equipment specification development and procurement
• Knowledge of synthesis, formulation and characterisation of organic and inorganic materials including polymers, and solid adsorbents (IR, UV, Particle histogram via SEM and TEM…)
• R&D experience in the fields of adsorption, adsorbent design, separation technologies, catalyst, materials characterisation and/or carbon capture.
• Experience in solid gas adsorption and adsorbent design, sorbent development for gas stripping and capture (CO2 or H2 S), Surface area analysis via gas adsorption (BET), physical and chemical adsorption or thermal analysis
• Demonstrated knowledge of catalyst/materials characterization and/or testing techniques.
• Experience in developing proposals/bids writing.

Desirable:

• PI or co-PI on academic research project or equivalent industrial experience.
• Experience in computational chemistry, analysis and simulation of synthetic materials
• 10+ years experience in material/surface/formulation chemistry
• Experience in carbon capture utilisation and storage
• Experience in patent writing and grant proposal development
• Experience in the mineralisation of CO2 for various applications.

Qualifications:

• PhD in chemistry or related field.
• 3 years of post PhD experience in applied research or in an industrial setting.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Independent self-starter who can develop new technology areas that leverage existing capabilities and expertise, including CO2 adsorption for concrete production.
• Contribute to the C4C IPR for CO2 adsorption technologies.
• Contribute to the funded grant project proposals – e.g. Innovate UK, European Innovation Council, UKRI, Horizon Europe.
• Plan, procure and manage the chemical laboratory in line with regulations.

Benefits:

C4C is seeking people who want to do applied science, with the entrepreneurial spirit and use their skills to build a sustainable world. We offer typical employee benefits plus a share of what we will build together.

• A unique opportunity to work with top universities in the UK
• An exciting opportunity to work with Multibillion Concrete companies
• A competitive flexible annual holiday entitlement.
• A pension scheme
• A competitive bonus upon achieving milestones
• A flexible working hours
• A mix of approximately 70% remote and 30% lab work.
• Unrivalled career progression pathway.
• An interesting company social calendar