Senior Scientist Next-gen experimentation

Antwerp - Belgium

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 2 days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

At Johnson & Johnsonwe believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build aworld where complex diseases are prevented treated and curedwhere treatments are smarter and less invasive andsolutions are our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow and profoundly impact health for more at .

As guided by Our Credo Johnson & Johnson is responsible to our employees who work with us throughout the world. We provide an inclusive work environment where each person is considered as an individual. At Johnson & Johnson we respect the diversity and dignity of our employees and recognize their merit.

Job Function:

Discovery & Pre-Clinical/Clinical Development

Job Sub Function:

Chemical Research

Job Category:

Scientific/Technology

All Job Posting Locations:

Beerse Antwerp Belgium

Job Description:

Our expertise in Innovative Medicine is informed and inspired by patients whose insights fuel our science-based advancements. Visionaries like you work on teams that save lives by developing the medicines of tomorrow.

Join us in developing treatments finding cures and pioneering the path from lab to life while championing patients every step of the way.

Learn more at are seeking highly a motivated automation scientist or engineer to strengthen our lab automation and digitization capabilities at Johnson & Johnsons chemical process R&D department in Beerse Belgium. You will be part of the Next-gen experimentation (NXT) team that designs deploys and maintains advanced lab automation solutions and self-driving labs for organic chemistry and biocatalysis.

We are looking for applications from early career PhD-level candidates as well as experienced professionals with several years of industrial experience.

We strongly encourage you to apply even if you do not meet all requirements. The selected candidate will have opportunities to develop and expand their expertise in other areas.

Key Responsibilities:

Design develop and maintain automated workflows for process R&D (organic synthesis workup and biocatalysis) in close partnership with chemists microbiologists engineers system vendors and commercial integrators.
Configure script and operate automation platforms and scheduling/orchestration software (Python and vendor languages) to run robust reproducible methods.
Diagnose and resolve issues across hardware software and data interfaces; perform rootcause analysis and implement corrective/preventive actions.
Design implement and maintain a scalable software architecture for our next-gen labs in close partnerships with users team members and other departments.
Train coach and support users; create documentation quickstart guides and best practices that enable safe selfserve operation at scale.
Identify new automation opportunities pilot solutions with vendors/integrators prepare business cases and harden new technologies for routine use.
Act as main interface and sparring partner on automation and digitization for colleagues across multiple disciplines.

Qualification and skills:

PhD in chemistry chemical engineering biocatalysis protein engineering mechanical engineering or other relevant scientific domain. Demonstrated experience in lab automation is a must.
BSc or MSc in above mentioned fields with significant hands-on industrial experience will also be considered.
Experience with equipment configuration programming operation and troubleshooting for one or multiple unit operations: robots/cobots solid handling liquid handling (online) analytics colony picking.
Experience with Python or other programming languages/frameworks (C# .NET MATLAB).
Ideally has experience with equipment acquisition process with vendors and integrators including experience with URS FAT SAT.
Works as a generalist across multiple domains (scientific content workflow development hardware software safety IT).

Our offer:

You will become part of an ambitious and innovative team that works on the interface of science technology an IT. Furthermore at J&J you will get:

Contributing to our mission to continue to bring transformational new medicines to patients.
Being part of a motivated and experienced research team in an innovative working environment through mentoring programs e-university and on the job training. We ensure your personal development in a global company.
A competitive salary on-site sport accommodations health/energy programs and other benefits for you and your family.
Flexible working hours (40 h/week) no fixed holiday planning with many holidays and the possibility to work at home for non-laboratory related tasks.

Required Skills:

Preferred Skills:

Chemistry Collaborating Critical Thinking Data Quality Drug Discovery Development Emerging Technologies Execution Focus Industry Analysis Innovation Interdisciplinary Work Pharmaceutical Trends Pharmacognosy Pharmacology Quantitative Research Research Ethics Scientific Research Technologically Savvy

Required Experience:

Senior IC