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Blend Test Services Placement Student

Posted 23 Mar 2024
Work experience
0 to 2 years
Full-time / part-time
Full-time
Job function
Degree level
Required language
English (Fluent)

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Lubrizol, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is a market-driven global company that combines complex, specialty chemicals to optimise the quality, performance and value of customers’ products while reducing their environmental impact. Lubrizol produces and supplies technologies to customers in the global transportation, industrial and consumer markets. These technologies include lubricant additives for engine oils, driveline and other transportation-related fluids, industrial lubricants, and additives for gasoline and diesel fuel. In addition, Lubrizol makes ingredients and additives for home care and personal care products and pharmaceuticals, and specialty materials, including plastics technology and performance coatings in the form of resins and additives.

Role: Blend Test Services Student Placement

At Lubrizol, we have a growing student community in the UK with over 30 placements each year across a number of roles.

As a student with in the Blend Test Services department, you will be part of a skilled professional team of lab technicians, chemists and PhD chemists, who perform, develop and create a diverse set of physical and analytical chemistry tests to evaluate our products. Without the evidence provided by these tests Lubrizol cannot make specific claims as to the effectiveness of our products.

What you will be doing

  • Be responsible for the accurate performance of physical and analytical tests on Lubrizol products
  • Reporting test findings to customers (both written and verbal)
  • Helping to influence industry standards for vehicle fluids by developing new tests and increasing understanding of current practices
  • Fostering cross lab co-operation and understanding by training on a wide range of tests across the department

What you will need

  • Studying towards a chemistry related degree involving a year in industry, achieving a 2:1 or above
  • Achieved grade C or above in A Level Chemistry
  • Excellent communication skills, both oral and written to be able to write reports
  • Experience of analytical or physical chemistry is preferable
  • Lab based experience

Why Lubrizol?

We know that Lubrizol is not a common household name, so it may surprise you to know that our products and technologies are in the things that you use every day- from surfaces and fluids in the vehicles you drive, to shampoo, medicines, to the clothes that you wear.

The Lubrizol Corporation, a Berkshire Hathaway company, combines our unique chemistry expertise, formulation and applications capabilities, and market insights to positively impact the lives of our customer’s end users around the globe.

Lubrizol is a market-driven global company that combines complex, specialty chemicals to optimize the quality, performance and value of customers’ products while reducing their environmental impact.

Chemical
Derby
8,000 employees