Analytical Chemistry Spectroscopy | Jobs in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia by Sipchem

About the Position:

This role is responsible for the day to day running of the spectroscopic analytical equipment in the Sipchem Technology and Innovation Centre in support of R&D projects and activities. The role will ensure capable of timely analysis for R&D projects on polymer and chemicals products through establishing analytical methods and ensuring that the data provided are precise and accurate. Through coordination with the R&D Support Services Group instrument preventative maintenance, calibration, repairs, and performance verifications are carried out to the required schedule.

Major Duties/ Responsibilities:

– Ensure efficient operation of the centre’s analytical equipment including NMR, ICP-OES, FTIR / NIR, UV-VIS Spectrophotometer (advanced interpretation of NMR data is not required).

– Support for GC & HPLC, GPC, DSC, TGA, SEM, auto-titrators, and others would be an advantage.

– Development and verification of methods (SOPs) for polymer and chemicals products analysis.

– Give training to colleagues on experiment methods and maintaining training and qualification records.

– Management of the laboratory upkeep, hygiene routines, EHS, and tidiness.

– Identify needs for typical analyses of Sipchem products and maintain the necessary laboratory supplies of equipment accessories, consumables, reagents, and technical gases.

– Coordinate with the R&D Support Services Group to ensure that the preventative maintenance program and the calibration of laboratory equipment is carried out effectively and on time.

– Provide general chemistry and precise and accurate analytical support to Sipchem R&D projects.

– Management of laboratory waste within Sipchem standards.

– Train and develop junior staff in analytical methods and equipment setup.

– Ensure project experimental data are recorded, filed, and reported in accordance with the Sipchem R&D standards.

About the Candidate:

– Degree in Chemistry, Engineering, Materials Science, or Analytical Science subject (not M.Sc. or Ph.D.)

– 7 years industrial experience with laboratory analytical instruments.

– 7 years of industrial analytical chemistry methods.

– Has worked in an industrial analytical laboratory.

– Experienced with the set-up and operations of analytical instruments such as NMR, ICP-OES, FTIR / NIR, UV-VIS, Spectrophotometer, and others.

– ISO 17025 and 9001 experience would be an advantage.

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.