Lab Research Scientist

Home to the world's best loved and trusted hygiene, health, and nutrition brands. Our purpose defines why we exist: to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. We are a global team united by this purpose.

Join us in our fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment a right and not a privilege.

**Research & Development**:
In R&D, we're full of highly skilled talents that include Scientists, Engineers, Medical, Clinical and Regulatory professionals - all working to create a cleaner, healthier world. With nine Centres of Excellence, we continually seek out new opportunities by using science, our entrepreneurial flare and our fearless innovation to develop and enhance our existing portfolio, never compromising on quality or performance.

We do the right thing, always, by ensuring we act with responsibility and integrity, by complying with regulatory legislation across the globe, whilst ensuring our products are safe for our consumers and are to the highest quality.

The size of our organisation means you'll have the opportunity to learn and work in different functions within R&D, giving you exposure to different disciplines, teams and environments. You will also have access to our R&D Academy, designed to develop our team and allow you to grow in our great organisation.

**Your responsibilities**:
**You will**
- Be responsible of validation & qualification of new lines
- Prepare and perform product tests according to SOP
- Sample preparation for analysis and performance tests
- Perform and document performance tests; perform and document analysis methods and product tests
- Create pilot lines for new samples
- Execute and document performance tests, simple analytical methods and production trials
- Build and evaluate home user test samples

**What you can expect**:

- A challenging and dynamic position to support the implementation of global projects and initiatives in the field of dishwasher products. From feasibility studies to successful market launches.
- Due to short decision-making processes and flat hierarchies, you will work exceptionally independently and constantly master new and unknown situations
- You work in successful teams, constantly learn new skills, receive support from experienced colleagues and contribute your experience to the team and the company.
- You take your career into your own hands and drive it forward

**The experience we're looking for**:
**You...**

...have a bachelor's or chemical laboratory technician, or a background in chemical engineering; ideally you have gathered some experience in working closely with Supply teams and factories
...have good communication skills in English
...are organized, work indepentenly, carefully and reliable
...are a curious mind and willing to broaden your knowledge
...can work autonomously while following protocol and tight schedules

**What we offer**:
With inclusion at the heart of everything we do, working alongside our four global Employee Resource Groups, we support our people at every step of their career journey, helping them to succeed in their own individual way.

We invest in the wellbeing of our people through parental benefits, an Employee Assistance Program to promote mental health, and life insurance for all employees globally. We have a range of other benefits in line with the local market. Through our global share plans we offer the opportunity to save and share in Reckitt's potential future successes. For eligible roles, we also offer short-term incentives to recognise, appreciate and reward your work for delivering outstanding results. You will be rewarded in line with Reckitt's pay for performance philosophy.

**Gleichberechtigung**:
We recognise that in real life, great people don't always 'tick all the boxes'. That's why we hire for potential as well as experience. Even if you don't meet every point on the job description, if this role and our company feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability or medical condition; colour, ethnicity, race, citizenship, and national origin; religion, faith; pregnancy, family status and caring responsibilities; sexual orientation; sex, gender identity, gender expression, and transgender identity; protected veteran status; size or any other basis protected by appropriate law.