Junior Process Engineer

The Role: Our client is a multinational manufacturing organisation, with a sizable facility in the North East of England, developing a wide portfolio of global market leading products and materials. They are currently looking to strengthen their technical function with an ambitious Junior Process Engineer, who will support European wide product and process optimization projects and key strategic programs. Specifically, accountable for: * Technical evaluations within local plants including the UK, for EU/Group led projects. * Process Engineering support within local and EU plants. * Technical evaluations of Prototype products and materials. * Support technical requirements of EU specification products. * Coordinate product testing for EU specification opportunities. * Competitor product benchmarking. Technical evaluations/comparisons. * Support accelerated introduction of new products / processes / materials. The Person: * Candidates should hold a degree level qualification in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering, with technical bias of study experience. * Have at least one year experience within an industrial organisation. * Possess good IT skills particularly, PowerPoint/Excel/ Word, to an advanced level. Required to produce professional technical reporting. * Some knowledge of manufacturing processes. * Some previous experience of interfacing with Technical NPD/ R&D functions and / or experience of product materials would be highly advantageous.