HPLC CHEMIST

Puretek Corporation • Los Angeles, CA

1d • $30 - $35 • Onsite

About The Position

This Analytical Chemist position holder will be responsible for conducting a variety of tasks, including performing Method Development and Validation for new products, testing raw materials, in process, and finished products, maintaining proper documentation. All tasks will be performed according to the Company’s Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and generally accepted industry practices including USP (United States Pharmacopeia), NF (National Formulary), FCC (Federal Chemistry Code) and AOAC (Association of Official Analytical Chemists) testing monographs.

Requirements

• Use discretion in handling confidential and sensitive matters
• Must be able to resolve conflict in a professional and expeditious manner
• Must be able to prioritize work and complete assignments with little to no supervision
• Must possess ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with supervisors, personnel, co-workers, subordinates, customers and the public
• Strong knowledge of basic chemistry formulas and characteristics
• Knowledge of batch-adjustments for liquid products
• Proficient use of Microsoft Office products including Word, Excel, and Outlook; and application software for advanced instrument analytics
• Must have good visual/organoleptic alertness, aseptic techniques in testing of the products
• Knowledge to operate basic analytical instrumentation, UV/VIS (Ultraviolet & Visible) spectrometer, FT-IR (Fourier Transform Infrared) spectrometer, thermometer, pH-meter, conductivity meter, TOC (Total Organic Carbon) analyzer, Densitometer, viscometer dissolution/disintegration, particles analyzer, and perform the necessary calculations
• Knowledge and ability to operate and troubleshoot advanced analytical instruments: HPLC (High Performance Liquid Chromatography); GC (Gas Chromatography), ICP-MS (Inductively Coupled Plasma- Mass Spectrometry)
• Knowledge to perform chemical ID tests and other assay according to SOP and other published monographs, which has defined in the summary.
• Must demonstrate good command of the English language, communicating clearly and concisely communicate verbally and in writing to individuals and groups.
• Must have college level mathematic skills. Compute basic and advanced mathematical equations such as addition, subtraction, division, multiplication, percentages and statistics. Ability to analyze results.

Responsibilities

• Interacts with other departments to communicate necessary information.
• To ensure that all analysis is accurate and follows standardized laboratory procedures.
• To ensure laboratory standards are properly prepared and laboratory notebooks are up to date.
• Coordinate all special projects in the HPLC laboratory.
• Write Standard Operating Procedures for HPLC regarding all in-process and finished products.
• Maintains a laboratory following cGMP Practices.
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously and collaborate with other departments to solve non-routine problems.
• Improve the current operations through suggestions on how improvements can be made to the current process and generate data to support the improvements.
• Performs method development/ validation tasks.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level