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Job Description

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

Discover Impactful Work

The Senior Process Development (Sr. PD) Scientist is responsible for developing, optimizing, and technology transfer of processes to the production area, while meeting specific quality, schedule, and cost requirements.  The Sr. PD Scientist designs and carries out multiple, complex steps of chemical reactions and purifications of products independently and in accordance with established procedure.  The Sr. PD Scientist also provides a high level of technical expertise and leadership across the company and must exercise judgment within broadly defined practices and policies.

A Day in the life

• Follow established methods and standard operating procedures

• Work independently or lead a team to troubleshoot problems, recommend and execute improvements in laboratory operations and equipment use

• Analyze and simulate existing/new processes; design and execute experiments for characterization, isolation and purification of new product/processes using various techniques in process development/manufacturing

• Discover, develop and optimize reliable, robust and cost-efficient processes that are amenable to scale change.  Evaluate processes for safety and reproducibility during development and scale up

• Write technical reports, critical experiment plan, item qualification and operating procedures for product manufacturing and equipment

• Provide product costing analysis. Evaluate equipment need, and provide selection and safety recommendation

• Provide technical leadership, coaching, and training to Manufacturing and Process Development staff on process optimization and scale up.  

• Provide technical presentation to staff and Management team

• When needed, act as the project manager when working individually or with cross-functional teams to prepare for new product launches or other operational projects

• Participate/lead PPI projects

• The individual must understand and comply with RCRA Standards

• The position is also responsible for any other duties apparent or assigned.

Keys to Success

Education

• Ph.D. required, or an equivalent combination of degree and experience in nucleic acids or peptide chemistry.

Experience

• 8+ years of demonstrated industrial experience in multistep organic synthesis, purification, process development/validation, scale up of heterocyclic compounds (Nucleic Acids/Peptide preferred), product analysis and instrumentation (HPLC, LC/MS, NMR)

• Demonstrated experience in process development techniques and application (process optimization, experimental design, and data analysis) 

• Must possess expert analytical, troubleshooting, mathematical/data analysis, and technical writing skills, along with the ability to present information effectively to audiences of varying technical understanding

• Strong understanding of analytical data, troubleshooting, and method development

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Must be available to work overtime, including weekends as project schedule warrants

• Ability to regularly handle chemicals, solvents, and potentially hazardous substances

• Be mechanically adept and able to apply mechanical fundamentals to properly operate, the equipment within their area of responsibility

• Specific vision abilities required: close vision, distant vision, depth perception, ability to adjust focus, and differentiate colors

• The employee is occasionally required to walk, sit, stoop, bend, kneel, crouch, and crawl and frequently lift and/or move 50 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move more than 50 pounds with assistance

Benefits

We offer competitive remuneration, annual incentive plan bonus, healthcare, and a range of employee benefits. Thermo Fisher Scientific offers employment with an innovative, forward-thinking organization, and outstanding career and development prospects. We offer an exciting company culture that stands for integrity, intensity, involvement, and innovation!