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Job Description
Snr Process Organic Chemist
Join our team as a Senior Process Organic Chemist and take advantage of a fantastic opportunity to work on a wide range of products and projects in a growing facility with excellent career progression opportunities.
About the Role
- Provide process chemistry support for existing and new processes to ensure the site's scientific, quality, and safety metrics are achieved.
- Lead/participate in detailed technical risk assessments for plant changes/product introduction.
- Contribute to development initiatives to improve process understanding, process control, process capability, cycle time, yield, and efficiency.
- Participate in the Technology Transfer process, ensuring processes/technologies are suitable for commercial production.
Key Responsibilities
- Acquire and maintain a detailed knowledge and understanding of the chemistry of relevant processes.
- Prepare technical documentation to support manufacturing, including manufacturing batch records, laboratory SOPs, process steps, PQ protocols, and CMC chemistry descriptions.
- Provide training to Operations team personnel.
- Lead and seek approval for process changes, ensuring communication and progression on and off-site.
- Investigate quality and yield issues, ensuring deviation reports/unplanned change notifications and Quality Investigation Reports are closed out in a timely fashion.
- Liaise with customers to ensure project updates and specific customer requests are addressed.
- Support laboratory development projects on schedule for relevant processes.
- Liaise with procurement to support cost reduction and security of supply projects.
- Provide scientific advice to the evaluation and assessment of suppliers.
- Support Capital engineering projects relating to new products, existing products, and major process re-development.
- Ensure all aspects of Product Quality Lifecycle Management are actively maintained.
Requirements
- PhD in Organic Chemistry or related area.
- 3+ years of experience in process development, tech transfers, and NPI support is beneficial.
- Experience in supporting API plant processes is helpful.