Applications Specialist

Job title- Applications Specialist

Job Type- Full time

Location – UK-Malvern

Role benefits - Competitive Salary + Benefits Package and more

Become part of making the impossible possible.

About the role:

We’re looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Applications Specialist to join our Malvern Applications team, someone excited by science, technology, and the opportunity to make a real impact for customers around the world.

In this role, you’ll work across a powerful and diverse portfolio spanning Malvern Panalytical and Micromeritics Instrument Corporation technologies. You’ll gain hands-on experience with industry-leading instruments such as the Mastersizer 3000 alongside the full Micromeritics range, including systems like TriStar, AccuPyc, FT‑4 Powder Rheometer, and advanced gas adsorption platforms.

Every day brings something new, you’ll support customers, Sales teams, and colleagues through engaging product demonstrations, tailored training sessions, sample analysis, and method development. Your expertise will help unlock insights for customers and ensure they get the very best from our technologies.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone looking to deepen their technical expertise, broaden their product knowledge, and grow within a highly collaborative, supportive, and forward-thinking Applications team. If you’re curious, hands-on, and passionate about solving scientific challenges, this role offers the perfect platform to develop your career

What you’ll be doing:

• Deliver customer demonstrations across Mastersizer 3000 and Micromeritics systems

• Support Account Managers and Inside Sales with technically informed input on customer opportunities

• Conduct sample analysis, generate clear reports, and present findings where required

• Provide training modules for customers and internal teams, with increasing independence as skills develop

• Perform laboratory measurements following SOPs, supporting method optimization as experience grows

• Assist post‑installation applications support and troubleshoot application‑related issues

• Collaborate cross‑functionally with Sales, Product Management, Customer Support, and the global Applications community

• Maintain timely and accurate updates in Salesforce and follow MP QHSE and BMS processes.

About you:

• Degree in Chemistry, Materials Science, Engineering, Physics, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Geoscience, or related fields

• Laboratory experience (academic or industrial)

• Familiarity with particle sizing, gas adsorption, density measurement, or powder rheology advantageous

• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly to varied audiences

• Good organizational skills and ability to manage multiple tasks

• Experience working with customers or in a technical support environment is beneficial

What’s in It for You

• Join an ambitious, fast-growing international organisation with a collaborative, inclusive culture where your ideas and impact truly matter

• Play a meaningful role in driving growth at a global leader committed to partnering with customers to make the world a better place

• Be part of a globally connected team, with opportunities to collaborate across regions and influence initiatives at scale

• Benefit from a comprehensive and competitive rewards package designed to support your wellbeing, growth, and success

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About us - Malvern Panalytical, Micromeritics and SciAps. 
Together we are a powerful and highly complementary combination of market leading technologies. 

We are the toolmakers for the world's most innovative companies, academic institutions, and government laboratories. We are their partners in discovery.

Malvern Panalytical instruments analyze the chemical, physical and structural nature of materials, from proteins to polymers and semiconductors to minerals. Our leading technologies measure particle size, shape, concentration and zeta potential, biomolecular interactions and stability, elemental concentrations and crystallographic structure.

Micromeritics manufactures systems for the characterization of particles, powders, and porous materials for a wide- range of end markets including catalysts, chemicals, building materials, clean-tech and battery.  Our leading technologies measure surface area, porosity, density, adsorption and particle activity.

SciAps specializes in portable X-ray fluorescence (XRF), laser-based (LIBS) and near-infrared (NIR) analyzers to measure any element in any environment. SciAps is the Center of Excellence for our handheld instruments.
We have a global footprint with R&D and manufacturing sites in North America, Europe, and Asia.

We are more than 2,500 employees in a customer-focused organization with sales and service offices in 20 countries, all committed to delivering expert and responsive customer support.

We are part of Spectris. Spectris combines precision with purpose, delivering progress for a more sustainable world. Precision is at the heart of what we do – our leading, high-tech instruments and software equip our customers to solve some of their greatest challenges to make the world cleaner, healthier and more productive.

Malvern Panalytical, Micromeritics & SciAps
Your Partners in Discovery

Malvern Panalytical, Micromeritics and SciAps, part of the Spectris Group, are committed to a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can thrive and achieve a fulfilling career. Changing the world isn’t something you can do on your own, or with a single way of thinking; it takes a wide collection of experiences, stories, knowledge, and expertise. We encourage applications from underrepresented individuals and people with diverse backgrounds. Although we always select the most qualified applicant for each role and make all decisions without regard to race, sex, age, or any other protected class, we are an inclusive, equal opportunity organization that prizes diversity. Your unique perspective is important to us.