Scientist III – Process Research & Development
About The Position
As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer. This is an entry-level opportunity to support the Process R&D efforts at the Florence, SC facility.
Requirements
- PhD in Chemistry or commensurate experience
- 0-2 years of experience
- Good knowledge and understanding of chemistry and analytical instrumental technologies.
- Good problem-solving skills and logical approach to solving scientific problems.
- Proficiency with HPLC, GC, LC/MS and Dissolution techniques.
- Good interpersonal and communication skills (both oral and written).
- Proficient analytical knowledge for compound identification and structure elucidation is required including NMR, IR, HPLC, GC, and MS.
Responsibilities
- Investigates, generates and validates new methodologies used to manufacture pharmaceutical intermediates, and final products.
- Participates in technical discussions with clients.
- Engages in technology transfer and manufacturing support.
- Develops remediation to address issues.
- Develop chemical processes to synthesize drug intermediates and APIs that meet or exceed the quality requirements from clients.
- Collect process data through laboratory experiments with accurate, detailed documentation for process evaluation, development, and troubleshooting.
- Record and analyze scientific data/observations in detail. Summarize and interpret process data to draw conclusions. Write updates/reports. Participate in discussions with colleagues and clients.
- Draft and review Operating Instructions, Deviations, Change Controls, and Investigative documentation.
- Provide timely technical support for scale-up production, quality and additional area needs.
- Research industry practices and processes and apply to innovative development internally and for client products.
- Handle project timelines and results.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
Ph.D. or professional degree
