Castrol
Lubricants Senior Technologist
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About the team
Castrol Technology develops the products, technologies, and technical solutions that power Castrol’s performance today while creating opportunities for future growth. Bringing together global expertise across seven Technology Centres in formulation science, chemistry, engineering, product development, and testing, we co-engineer solutions that optimise performance for customers across traditional lubricant applications and emerging technologies.
We’re now hiring a Lubricants Senior Technologist to join our UK Technology Centre in Reading, supporting the Castrol Europe Performance Unit.
You’ll be part of the Technology Deployment Team, working at the interface between Global R&D, Sales, Marketing, Supply Chain, manufacturing, and OEM technology teams. The team plays a critical role in turning product innovation into commercially successful solutions for customers across Europe.
This is a highly collaborative role for someone who combines strong technical expertise with commercial awareness and stakeholder influence. You’ll have the opportunity to work across functions and markets, shape the successful introduction of new lubricant technologies, and help solve complex technical challenges for one of the world’s most recognised lubricant brands.
Key tasks
- Lead the deployment of new lubricant formulations and products across European markets, coordinating activity across technology, sales, marketing, supply chain, and manufacturing.
- Translate customer and market requirements into clear technical requirements for product development teams.
- Embed Quality Assurance processes across the plants and conduct Quality Assurance assessments with 3rd parties.
- Act as a key technical interface between product development, OEM technology, marketing, sales, supply chain, and customer-facing teams.
- Coordinate technical specifications, blending requirements, plant trials, testing, and formulation approvals.
- Provide technical troubleshooting support for manufacturing and blending issues, including raw material shortages, quality incidents, and customer complaints.
- Ensure product claims are technically substantiated and aligned with regulatory and marketing requirements.
- Develop and deliver technical communications and training to support new product launches, adapting global materials for regional and local audiences.
- Provide technical input into tenders, new market opportunities, procurement evaluations, and formulation optimisation.
- Identify opportunities to improve formulation cost competitiveness, supply resilience, and overall product performance.
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Experience Required
- Degree in chemistry, engineering, or a closely related technical discipline.
- Strong technical knowledge of lubricants, lubricant formulations, and automotive applications.
- Practical formulation experience within lubricants or fuels.
- Strong understanding of engine mechanics and the performance requirements placed on lubricants and fuels.
- Good understanding of automotive industry trends and their implications for lubricant technology.
- Experience taking ownership of formulation or technical programmes from development through to deployment.
- Strong cross-functional stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build effective networks across technical and commercial teams.
- Confidence presenting technical information externally, advocating for products, and communicating with larger audiences.
- Commercial awareness, including formulation optimisation, cost competitiveness, and supply resilience.
- Ability to quickly learn and apply new technical knowledge.
- Strong understanding of how technology, sales, marketing, supply chain, and product development work together.
- Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills.
- Comfortable using digital collaboration tools and basic modelling or analytical tools.
- Fluent English.
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