Senior Chemist II
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Job Location:
North Lanarkshire - UK
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
9 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Position Summary
The role of Senior Chemist II requires skills in both practical and theoretical synthetic organic chemistry. The role is primarily laboratory based conducting syntheses on existing products and devising and implementing syntheses for new products. A particular focus is driving improvement to our existing procedures with a view to maximising yields increasing reproducibility scaling and reducing manufacturing costs.
Key responsibilities
- Completion of scheduled work is on time (as per Chemistry Schedule) within budget (as per batch cost) and within specification
- Right first time (rework reduction RFT)
- On-Time Delivery in Full (OTIF)
- Underlying chemical and physical principles of chemical and analytical procedures are understood prior to commencing assigned work
- All reactions are monitored effectively to avoid work-up of incomplete reactions
- All batch failures (yield specification reprocessing) and unexpected results are reported immediately to the Chemistry Manager
- Opportunities for improving chemical procedure are identified and communicated
- Custom synthesis/NPI projects (including design of synthetic routes improvement of existing routes syntheses troubleshooting and optimisation of problematic steps) are efficiently and effectively completed.
- Contributions are made to writing and revising of documented procedures
- Records of work are complete and accurate.
- Responsibility for specified area of the business
- An ability to plan and manage CI (continuous improvement) projects
- Support of the development of new products within the company
- Accurate and timely recording interpretation and reporting of all generated data
- Up to date knowledge of relevant current literature and technical developments
- Review optimise and define manufacturing instructions to drive continuous improvement
- All relevant environmental health and safety regulations are complied with.
Meet the required key performance indicators as stated in KPI Bowler:
- Right first time (RFT)
- Delivery to plan (DTP batches submitted to QC by assigned QC in date)
- Productivity (no of batches completed per chemist per week)
Qualifications :
Knowledge Experience Skills and Certifications
- PhD or equivalent in a Chemistry
- Minimum of 3 years industrial experience or relevant postdoc or equivalent
- Project management experience
- Ideally experience working in a quality led laboratory environment
- Batch manufacture from <10 g to at least 1 kg
- Experience in working on product development projects
- Experience on working on contract/custom synthesis projects
- Experience in process improvement projects including scale up
- Experience in new product development projects
- Desirable knowledge of oligonucleotide synthesis
Knowledge and experience in:
- Synthetic organic chemistry
- Setting up and working up reactions
- Purification of materials (column chromatography crystallisation precipitation distillation)
- Analysis by TLC HPLC LCMS NMR
- Process improvement projects
PERSON SPECIFICATION
- Enthusiastic team player with exceptional communication skills
- Attention to detail and accuracy of work
- Flexibility to changing operating conditions
- An ability to work methodically and reliably in a highly organised manner
- Approachable and helpful manner
- Proactively works to resolve tough situations and pushes through solutions
- Commercial awareness and ambitious for personal and business growth
- An ability to coach and develop less experienced chemists
Additional Information :
ABOUT LGC:
LGC is a leading global life science tools company providing mission-critical components and solutions into high-growth application areas across the human healthcare and applied market segments. Its high-quality product portfolio is comprised of mission-critical tools for genomic analysis and for quality assurance applications which are typically embedded and recurring within our customers products and workflows and are valued for their performance quality and range.
OUR VALUES
- PASSION
- CURIOSITY
- INTEGRITY
- BRILLIANCE
- RESPECT
EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES
LGC strongly believes that every job applicant and employee should be valued for their individual talents regardless of age disability race color ethnic or national origin sex sexual orientation gender reassignment marital or civil partnership pregnancy or maternity religion or belief. Short listing interviewing and selection will always be carried out without regard to gender sexual orientation marital status color race nationality ethnic or national origins religion or belief age or trade union membership.
For more information about LGC please visit our website
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Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
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- Laboratory Experience
- Analytical Chemistry
- FDA Regulations
- Wet chemistry
- Chromatography
- High-Performance Liquid Chromatography
- Spectroscopy
- GLP
- cGMP
- Organic Chemistry
About Company
With over 180 years of scientific heritage and operations in 14 countries, our products and services are integral to the industries that safeguard our food, water, medicine, and environment. Working collaboratively with our partners across the scientific community, our solutions addr ... View more
