Associate Scientist, Process Development

Descripción del trabajo

Responsibilities:

• Plan and safely execute assigned experiments, with increasing independence, which support Process Development activities and project goals.

• Make key observations during reaction, work-up and isolation.

• Interpret data effectively, draw conclusions, summarize results and communicate to project and leadership teams.

• Demonstrate an ability to recognize anomalous or inconsistent results.

• Demonstrates an advanced level of understanding of project goals and methods and an ability to apply such to own work.

• Collaborates with supervisory personnel and others to develop strategy and tactics.

• Recommend alternatives, research new methods and techniques, and proactively seek out senior personnel to discuss potential solutions to problems.

• Provide regular updates (written and verbal) to the project team supervision and propose next steps.

• Use strong verbal communication and interpersonal skills to provide insight into the processes used to achieve experimental results.

• Work with collaborative communication and problem-solving spirit.

• Collaborates with contacts across areas and levels to accomplish project goals.

Qualifications:

• BSc in Chemistry and 4+ years of experience (Organic Chemistry focused) OR

• MSc in Organic Chemistry (or related discipline) and 2+ years of experience.

• Familiarity with modern purification and analytical techniques, including HPLC, NMR, and mass spec.

• Well-versed in job related software (e.g. Chemdraw, Microsoft Word/Excel/PowerPoint) and scientific literature searching tools (SciFinder, Reaxys, etc.).

• Strong desire to work in multi-disciplinary teams, learn new skills and proactively solve problems.

• Previous experience in manufacturing under GMP is an asset but not required.