NPD Laboratory Scientist Apprentice

TULLIS RUSSELL COATERS LIMITED

Macclesfield (SK10 5QF)

Closes in 13 days (Monday 4 August 2025)

Posted on 21 July 2025

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Summary

The purpose of the role is to assist new product development in support of strategic growth plans, from idea and opportunity assessment to development work, scale up, production and market qualification. This position will perform much of the supporting laboratory testing and subsequent reporting of trials/lab experiments and data analysis.

Wage

£19,000 a year

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Training course
Scientist (level 6)
Hours
Monday - Friday: Flexible start with core hours between 10am - 3pm. Half an hour lunch and an early finish on Friday.

37 hours 30 minutes a week

Start date

Monday 1 September 2025

Duration

4 years

Positions available

1

Work

Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.

What you'll do at work

Where you'll work

Church Street Bollington
Macclesfield
SK10 5QF

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

Training provider

MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY

Training course

Scientist (level 6)

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What you'll learn

Course contents
  • Identify and apply scientific approaches to solve problems, support investigations and recommend any follow-up experiments.
  • Evaluate scientific experiments using an appropriate level of qualitative and quantitative numerical analysis.
  • Critically analyse data, relevant literature and input from colleagues to inform investigations.
  • Analyse, interpret and evaluate scientific data and present the results in written and oral form.
  • Manage record keeping to ensure data integrity, traceability, confidentiality and adherence with appropriate regulatory requirements.
  • Promote, enact, document, and monitor the application of quality standards, safe working practices and compliance with risk management systems relevant to the role.
  • Identify opportunities to challenge assumptions and apply influencing skills to make improvements, make new proposals and build on existing ideas.
  • Manage work plan, prioritise tasks and evaluate progress against objectives.
  • Contribute to the development of technical projects across multi-skilled teams and share best practice across the wider business.
  • Conduct complex (chemical, or physical, or biological) scientific investigations in accordance with defined company procedures and legislative requirements.
  • Identify and implement continuous performance improvement using appropriate techniques.
  • Ensure work meets environmental, risk management and sustainability requirements and regulations of the business sector.
  • Evaluate own performance and knowledge, and set personal development goals.
  • Troubleshoot equipment selection and implement sustainable solutions.
  • Identify and collaborate with key stakeholders and provide technical support and advice where required.
  • Identify how other roles in the organisation can contribute to achieving sustainability goals.
  • Select and apply equipment, techniques, and methods to ensure reliable and accurate results.
  • Undertake practical analyses and measurement and communicate the outcomes using appropriate terminology and mathematical and graphical notation.
  • Use appropriate digital solutions for the collection and analysis of data, and the retrieval of appropriate information.
  • Use communication methods suited to objective and audience.
  • Use theoretical models, often involving approximations, to make quantitative predictions.
  • Apply chemical concepts and theories to investigations.
  • Design, develop and carry out chemical science investigations.
  • Recommend synthetic pathways to target-compounds and design experimental activities to test predictions.
  • Design and deploy purification, isolation and characterisation strategies, taking account of physicochemical properties of elements and compounds.
  • Design, develop and carry out qualitative and quantitative sample preparation, chemical measurement, and analysis.
  • Critically compare the results of theoretical or computational modelling with those from experiment and observation.
  • Apply physics theories to solve problems that cross scientific discipline boundaries.
  • Apply computational techniques to analysis and model physical behaviour.
  • Apply physics concepts and theories to investigations.
  • Design, develop and carry out physics based investigations.
  • Use mathematical techniques and theories to solve physics problems.
  • Use computer programming software to solve physics based problems.
  • Critically analyse current and emerging developments in the biosciences and the contribution of Biosciences to the wider industry.
  • Apply Biological concepts and theories to investigations.
  • Design, develop and carry out biological investigations
  • Perform tasks related to sample preparation and culturing techniques.
  • Use of laboratory automation systems.
  • Perform sampling with consideration for sample variation.
  • Identify and apply scientific approaches to solve problems, support investigations and recommend any follow-up experiments.
  • Evaluate scientific experiments using an appropriate level of qualitative and quantitative numerical analysis.
  • Critically analyse data, relevant literature and input from colleagues to inform investigations.
  • Analyse, interpret and evaluate scientific data and present the results in written and oral form.
  • Manage record keeping to ensure data integrity, traceability, confidentiality and adherence with appropriate regulatory requirements.
  • Promote, enact, document, and monitor the application of quality standards, safe working practices and compliance with risk management systems relevant to the role.
  • Identify opportunities to challenge assumptions and apply influencing skills to make improvements, make new proposals and build on existing ideas.
  • Manage work plan, prioritise tasks and evaluate progress against objectives.
  • Contribute to the development of technical projects across multi-skilled teams and share best practice across the wider business.
  • Conduct complex (chemical, or physical, or biological) scientific investigations in accordance with defined company procedures and legislative requirements.
  • Identify and implement continuous performance improvement using appropriate techniques.
  • Ensure work meets environmental, risk management and sustainability requirements and regulations of the business sector.
  • Evaluate own performance and knowledge, and set personal development goals.
  • Troubleshoot equipment selection and implement sustainable solutions.
  • Identify and collaborate with key stakeholders and provide technical support and advice where required.
  • Identify how other roles in the organisation can contribute to achieving sustainability goals.
  • Select and apply equipment, techniques, and methods to ensure reliable and accurate results.
  • Undertake practical analyses and measurement and communicate the outcomes using appropriate terminology and mathematical and graphical notation.
  • Use appropriate digital solutions for the collection and analysis of data, and the retrieval of appropriate information.
  • Use communication methods suited to objective and audience.
  • Use theoretical models, often involving approximations, to make quantitative predictions.

Training schedule

This training schedule has not been finalised. Check with this employer if you’ll need to travel to a college or training location for this apprenticeship.

Requirements

Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.

Skills

About this employer

Tullis Russell Group is an employee-owned business which specializes in coating and converting a range of paper and filmic products for use in various applications. These end uses include coated paper for various security orientated purposes such as Visa’s and numerous postage stamp customers, label stock, high end digital print mediums and barrier coatings against water, grease and oil. We are headquartered in Bollington and have a global footprint with additional manufacturing businesses in both S. Korea and China As a business we are committed to sustainability and through our Truzero initiative are working on a large range of sustainable, compostable alternatives to plastic in a wide range of markets. Our stated goal is to reduce CO2 emissions by 50% by 2030 and have 92% of all process water used by us to be harvested on site by 2027.

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Company benefits

Flexitime. Generous Money Purchase Pension Scheme. Various employee ownership benefits including profit sharing and bonuses according to business performance.

After this apprenticeship

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The contact for this apprenticeship is:

MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY

Geoff Henstock

Geoff.henstock@tullisrussell.com

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000332787.

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Closes in 13 days (Monday 4 August 2025)

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