Technician (Analytical Chemist)

Job description / Role

About the Position:
This role is responsible for carrying out experimental work using the R&D analytical equipment providing general analysis support to the R&D projects. The person filling this position will be assigned to R&D projects and receive work direction from the project leader or the laboratory leader as needed by the project. The role will ensure that the analysis is carried out diligently and reliably and that results data are stored and transmitted in accordance with the R&D project management information system.

Major Duties/ Responsibilities:
- Provide analytical support to Sipchem R&D projects.
- Ensure accurate and reproducible analysis using the R&D’s laboratory equipment including HPLC, GC-MS, TGA-MS, GC, GC Headspace, FTIR microscope, NIR, HT-GPC, RT-GPC, titration, DSC, DMTA, SEM, optical microscopes, NMR, microwave synthesis and digestion, elemental analysis, OES, Karl-Fischer, particle size analyser, HEL lab reactor, Buchi distillation, visible spectrometer, wet chemical methods, and other analysis equipment.
- Maintain the general laboratory upkeep and comply with EHS requirements of the physical testing laboratories.
- Identify needs for analysis of products and maintain the necessary laboratory supplies of equipment accessories and consumables.
- Monitor the operability of analytical equipment and co-ordinate with the R&D Support Services Group to ensure that the preventative maintenance program and the calibration of laboratory equipment are carried out effectively.
- Establish analytical methods and prepare SOPs.
- Ensure project experimental data are recorded, filed, and reported in accordance with the Sipchem R&D standards.

Requirements

About the Candidate:
- Diploma in a science discipline.
- 3 years’ experience with laboratory analytical equipment gained through work experience.
- Has been trained on laboratory analytical equipment at college or in a company laboratory.
- Familiar with the operation of some of these analytical instruments: HPLC, GC-MS, TGA, GC, FTIR, titration, DSC, elemental analysis, ICP / OES, Karl-Fischer, visible spectrometer, wet chemical methods, and other analysis equipment.
- Training will be given to so that new techniques can be learned ‘on the job’.

About the Company

Saudi International Petrochemical Company (Sipchem) is a Saudi joint stock company owned jointly by private sector investors from Saudi Arabia and GCC countries. The company was established on 22/12/1999, with a total capital of SR 500 milion (currently SR 1.5 billion).

Sipchem actively invests in petrochemical and chemical industries, both basic and intermediate to produce chemicals used to manufacture a multitude of products that improve the lives of people worldwide.

Through its affiliates, International Methanol Company (IMC) and Gulf Advanced Chemical Industries Company (GACIC), Sipchem produces one million mtpa of methanol and 75 thousand mtpa of butanediol.

For the attainment of sustainable growth according to a special strategy that links the company's present with its future, Sipchem continuously explores the prospects of development and renovation to facilitate the process of desired growth and expansion. In the second half of 2006, Sipchem started construction of Acetyl Complex which consists of Acetic Acid plant (460 thousand mtpa), Vinyl Acetate Monomer plant (330 thousand mtpa) and Carbon Monoxide plant (345 thousand mtpa). Commercial operation of these plants is scheduled to start in the first quarter of 2009. The launch of these additional facilities demonstrates the company's aggressive expansion program, which aims to make it one of the largest, fully-integrated, petrochemical complexes in the Middle East, owned and operated by the private sector.

In conducting its activities, Sipchem maintains strict adherence to the highest product quality standard without compromising its commitment to the environment and the safety of its employees and the community.