Senior Production Scientist

 

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This role does not offer sponsorship for work authorization. External applicants must be eligible to work in the US. 

 

Your Role:

The Senior Production Scientist at MilliporeSigma will work in a project-focused environment as a member of a multidisciplinary Process Development (PD) group responsible for development and qualification of manufacturing methods to support new product introduction and optimization of existing processes. Job duties include:

 

• Design and perform laboratory experiments and evaluate data to ultimately develop reliable manufacturing and/or QC methods.
• Regularly communicate project status to the PD, project management and Operations teams
• Perform and troubleshoot initial processing of newly developed and/or scaled up procedures with the Operations teams to qualify new methods.
• Aid in training and transfer of newly developed methods to the receiving Operations team to ensure long term success.
• Write clear instruction in operating procedures for Operations’ use in ongoing future manufacturing.
• Apply Root Cause Analysis tools to address manufacturing issues.
• Design and develop new products focused on providing solutions for customers in the life science field.
• Develop manufacturing processes that include synthesis, isolation, purification, and characterization of organic molecules. Characterization may include the following analytical techniques: NMR, HPLC, GC, MS, TLC, IR, UV-VIS spectroscopy.

 

Who You Are:

Minimum Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Organic Chemistry, Engineering, Biochemistry and other scientific fields
• 5+ years of academic and work experience with synthesis, isolation, purification, and characterization of organic molecules
• 1+ years of experience in HPLC operation and troubleshooting

 

Preferred Qualifications:

• PhD. in Organic Chemistry, Engineering, Biochemistry, and other scientific fields
• Experience in independent lab research or chemical manufacturing
• Background using AKTA purification systems and Unicorn software
• Experience applying the following chromatography techniques: ion exchange, reverse phase, size exclusion, and normal phase
• Knowledge producing small molecules via bio catalysis
• Manufacturing experience above bench scale
• Competent with protein purification and/or isolation of small molecules by natural extraction
• Experience maintaining LC/MS instrumentation
• Biochemistry or molecular biology exp