Analytical Development Chemist

at  Thermo Fisher Scientific

JOB DESCRIPTION

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life - enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research, development and delivery of life-changing therapies. With clinical trials conducted in 100+ countries and ongoing development of novel frameworks for clinical research through our PPD clinical research portfolio, our work spans laboratory, digital and decentralized clinical trial services. Your determination to deliver quality and accuracy will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on – now and in the future.
Within our Analytical Services team, we have a functional service provider solution, which is a unique partnership that allows our customers to demonstrate the experience of our staff, while allowing you, the employee, to gain direct experience working onsite at a pharmaceutical/ biopharmaceutical company, all while maintaining full-time benefits.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor’s degree in lab sciences such as Chemistry, Biochemistry, Material Science, Immunology, Biology, Molecular Biology or similar and previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 2+ years’)
• OR Masters degree
  In some cases, an equivalency, consisting of a combination of appropriate education, training and/or directly related experience, will be considered sufficient for an individual to meet the requirements of the role.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

• Extensive laboratory experience with and in-depth knowledge of conventional laboratory techniques such as HPLC/UPLC, dissolution, and Karl Fischer, and wet chemistry is a must.
• Experience with Empower desirable.
• Experience in analytical development in support of drug product formulation development.
• Experience in drafting and driving forced degradation and Design of Experiment studies.
• Experience in performing dissolution testing using bio-relevant media, for active ingredients and drug formulations to facilitate bio-pharmaceutics risk assessment and support drug product development is a plus.
• Proficiency in formulation development, pharmaceutical processing or pharmaceutical sciences is expected.
• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Ability to work independently.
• Familiar with USP, ICH and other compendial requirements.

As an Analytical Development Chemist you will be responsible for method development and execution of analytical techniques such as HPLC/UPLC, Dissolution, and Karl Fischer to facilitate the support of drug product development.

Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Support drug product development including characterization of the process and finished drug products.
• Hands on experience and knowledge in small molecule pharmaceutical analysis, formulation and/or bio-pharmaceutics is required.
• Able to optimally communicate and collaborate with other project team members and present results to development teams.