Chemist I

Job Description

Job Summary:

• Entry level role with responsibility for performing a variety of routine and non-routine tasks in a regulated laboratory environment in order to support, as well as help develop, pharmaceutical platforms.
• The chemist I will work in conformance with company policies and current Good Lab Practices (GLP), regulatory requirements and standards to meet quality and accuracy requirements.
• Individuals will perform procedures for process / analysis, and assist their manager and peers with routine and non-routine Quality Control and Research procedures.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Complies with all quality system requirements.
• Performs preparation, collection, measurement and recordkeeping of samples.
• Documents test and data analysis results.
• Participates on cross-functional teams for continuous improvement activities.
• Communicates with team members to ensure schedule requirements are met.
• Applies knowledge of performed tasks to elucidate test method failures.
• Analyzes and deduces data and collates test results.
• Communicates priority and timeliness for completion of customer requests.
• Helps drive the team to meet business goals.
• Supports development area as needed / commercial QC release.
• Learns and understands the manufacturing organization that the lab supports.

Minimum requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry, Biology or related technical discipline with a 0 years of laboratory experience.
• The employee must be able to stand/sit/walk up to 8 hrs./day, perform experiments at bench height, perform light lifting / bending or stretching to support test apparatus setup or teardown, and use computer and phones to participate in meetings.

Nice to have:

• General wet chemistry laboratory techniques and/or experience with liquid chromatography (UPLC/HPLC), gas chromatography (GC), dissolution (Apparatus 2, Apparatus 7), Karl Fischer, and FT-IR, UV-Vis.
• Experience with chromatography software (Empower).
• Microsoft Word and Excel skills.
• The ability to work in a laboratory with solvents and pharmaceutical substances.
• Solid technical ability, experience with equipment set up, and troubleshooting skills.