Sr. Chemist

Plymouth, Minnesota
July 8, 2025
$35 - $40 / hour
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Job Description

Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Conducts exploratory research to produce new knowledge and potential products; conceives, organizes, promotes, and executes ideas and plans to increase chemistry’s role in and contribution to the discovery and chemical approaches to meet exploratory objectives in product discovery.
  • Develops research proposals to provide a technically and economically sound basis for developing and evaluating new or improved products, synthetic methods, processes, and analytical and physical testing techniques.
  • Recommends utilization of the results or changes in the Product of work or termination of projects.

Differentiating Factors:

1. Autonomy:

  • Seasoned individual contributor.
  • Works independently under limited supervision to determine and develop approach to solutions.
  • Coaches and reviews the work of lower level specialists; may manage projects/processes.

2. Organizational Impact:

  • May be responsible for entire projects or processes within job area.
  • Contributes to the completion of work group objectives through building relationships and consensus to reach agreements on assignments.

3. Innovation and Complexity:

  • Problems and issues faced are difficult and may require understanding of multiple issues, job areas or specialties.
  • Makes improvements of processes, systems or products to enhance performance of the job area.
  • Analysis provided is in-depth in nature and often provides recommendations on process improvements.

4. Communication and Influence:

  • Communicates with senior internal and external customers and vendors.
  • Exchanges information of facts, statuses, ideas, and issues to achieve objectives and influence decision-making.

5. Leadership and Talent Management:

  • May provide guidance, coaching and training to other employees within job area.
  • May manage projects, requiring delegation of work and review of others’ work product.

Education and Experience:

  • Requires a University Degree and minimum of 4 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 2 years relevant experience.
  • Advanced degree in chemistry or chemical engineering or related technical field.
  • 5+ years of experience in R&D within medical device or pharmaceutical industries.
  • Experience with new product development and sustaining project support.
  • Experience in moderate and complex data analyses using statistical techniques.
  • Experience of using chromatography software – Empower and MassHunter.
  • Experience using common electronic documentation software (e.g. MAP, Agile or equivalent).

Expertise in combination device analytical test method development and validation:

  • HPLC, GC, dissolution, bioassay.
  • Formulation and testing experience with adhesives, cyanoacrylates preferred.

Expertise with analytical instrumentation, including troubleshooting:

  • Dissolution USP Apparatuses, HPLC-DAD, GPC, GC-FID/MS, Karl Fischer, FT-IR and UV-Vis.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

  • Requires advanced knowledge of job area combining breadth and depth, typically obtained through advanced education combined with experience.
  • May have practical knowledge of project management.
  • Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks and lead projects.
  • Expertise in combination device analytical test method development and validation.
  • Solid oral and written communication skills.
  • Strong problem-solving capabilities.

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