Lead Engineer - Process

Our client, a fast growing advanced materials company is currently looking for a Lead Engineer Process to lead the scale up of a breakthrough porous silicon material as it moves from lab to commercial production. This hands on role is ideal for a process chemist, chemical engineer, or materials engineer with strong experience in process scale up, high performance materials, and fast paced technical environments. The Lead Engineer Process will: Own the process scale up roadmap and translate product requirements into clear development targets. Lead scale up programmes from lab validation through to production ready processes. Design and improve processes using modelling led, data driven decision-making. Support manufacturing strategy, capital investment decisions, and process readiness. Provide hands on technical leadership, mentoring junior engineers/scientists, and guiding experiments. Contribute to technical documentation, customer discussions, and IP generation. The Lead Engineer Process will have: 5+ years'' experience in process chemistry or process development (industry or applied RandD). Strong hands on expertise scaling up advanced material synthesis or downstream processing. Deep understanding of equipment design, unit operations, thermodynamics, and kinetics. Proven ability to independently develop safe, scalable manufacturing methods. Experience working cross functionally with technical and leadership teams. Excellent communication and problem solving skills ..... full job details .....