Analytical Chemist

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Date: Nov 28, 2025

Location: Vilafranca del Penedes, ES

Company: AkzoNobel

 

Vilafranca del Penedès (Spain)

 

Analytical Chemist

 

 

 

Are you an expert in analytical chemistry with a passion for precision and problem-solving? Join our R&D team as an Analytical Chemist, where you’ll play a key role in supporting and improving our packaging coatings portfolio through advanced testing, data analysis, and collaboration with commercial and technical teams.

 

 

About the role

 

  • Ensure Lab Safety: Maintain a safe and compliant laboratory environment, following all safety protocols.
  • Perform Advanced Testing: Conduct detailed chemical, physical, and performance analyses of packaging coatings using a range of analytical techniques (e.g., spectroscopy, chromatography, microscopy).
  • Support Product Stewardship: Investigate product performance issues, raw material changes, and customer complaints through analytical testing and root cause analysis.
  • Interpret & Report Data: Analyse complex datasets, generate clear reports, and provide actionable insights to internal stakeholders.
  • Collaborate Across Functions: Work closely with R&D, Technical Service, Sales, and Marketing to support customer needs and ensure product quality and compliance.
  • Drive Continuous Improvement: Recommend improvements to testing protocols, lab practices, and product formulations based on analytical findings.
  • Applies relevant analytical approaches and techniques such as FTIR, GCMS, LCMS, GPC and optical microscopy

 

About you

 

  • A degree in Chemistry or a related scientific field, with specialization in analytical techniques.
  • 3+ years of experience in a laboratory setting, preferably in coatings or packaging.
  • Hands-on experience with analytical instruments and methods (e.g., FTIR, GC-MS, SEM, DSC).
  • Strong communication skills in English and Spanish.
  • Ability to translate technical data into meaningful recommendations for non-technical stakeholders.
  • Availability to travel internationally during the training period is required.
  • Personal vehicle to access the Site (in an industrial area)

 

What we offer

 

  • Join a growing multinational company.
  • Permanent project.
  • Professional and personal development in a dynamic environment.
  • On-site modality.
  • Dining room benefits.
  • Flexible remuneration.
  • Access to training platform.
  • Free parking

 

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