Process Chemistry Scientist
Job Description
Job Summary:
- As an integral part of our innovation team, Scientist – Process Chemistry will collaborate with our partners in business development, marketing, sales, and production.
- They will ideate new product and process concepts, innovate solutions by utilizing the principles of process chemistry & chemical engineering, and create workable, as well as sustainable, production know-hows.
- The Scientist – Process Chemistry is expected to set a high standard for quality and follow good housekeeping practices, business ethics, all applicable safety regulations.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Maintain knowledge & expertise in technical areas of organic and organometallic chemistry.
- Stay connected with the latest development in process chemistry.
- Engage with internal innovation team in formulating project concepts.
- Lead or actively contribute to well-defined project charters.
- Develop hands-on expertise for process chemistry.
- Lead the development of technical solutions.
- Validate technical prototypes.
- Document all the innovation work.
- Support product launch and post-launch follow ups.
- Create workable and sustainable production solutions.
- Transfer workable solutions to designated production group.
- Provide needed technical support to production.
- Offer technical training to production group as needed.
- Collaborate with different departments such as safety, quality, sales & marketing to introduce new products & processes.
- Setting up small scale screening reactions.
- Serve as a technical liaison with the other R&D or technical groups.
- Serve as a mentor to junior members of the R&D team.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Advanced degree in Chemistry or Engineering.
- Experience in Distillation of organic compounds and design of distillation processes.
- B.S. in Chemistry or Engineering.
- 3+ years of industrial experience in distillation.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in calculating theoretical plates and choosing column packing material.
- Strong experience in Schlenk-line, glove box, and air sensitive chemistry techniques.
- Excellent written and presentation skills.
- Chemical manufacturing/process development experience.
- Experience with design of experiment methodology.
- Understanding of statistical process control.