Scientist, Chemistry Job Description
Scientist, chemistry
provides scientific and regulatory consultations on microbiology and analytical chemistry for product development and for business decisions.
Scientist, Chemistry Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Have a strong knowledge of chemistry/chemical engineering with an ability to collaborate across disciplines
Strong, demonstrated performance in synthetic organic chemistry experimentation
Oil & Lubricant related research and development, with emphasis on scientific understanding of chemistry, failure analysis, manufacturing processes and reliability analysis
Proven ability to work well in a team environment, and to efficiently organize and report on chemistry data
Design and synthesize conjugated polymer dyes in line with the commercial strategy
Lead technical project teams in delivering cutting edge solutions to highly integrated product development problems and delivering to timelines
Perform and oversee a wide variety of polymer processing, purification and characterization steps
Create or identify innovative new technologies for fluorescence-based biological detection used in the creation of reagents
Play a key role in product and process development by interpreting data and providing guidance to product development teams
Work collaboratively with polymer chemists, biochemists and applications scientists to develop new dyes for flow cytometry
Scientist, Chemistry Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Scientist, Chemistry
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: ASCP, AMT, MT
Education for Scientist, Chemistry
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the scientist, chemistry job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Chemistry, Science, Biochemistry, Chemical Engineering, Biology, Industrial, Education, Engineering, Technical, Biotechnology
Skills for Scientist, Chemistry
Desired skills for scientist, chemistry include:
Principles and practices of quality management and performance improvement
Chemistry
Metric system
Microbiology
Respective scientific discipline and familiarity with related scientific disciplines -Typically PhD level
With equivalent experience
Applicable regulatory authority
Compendia and ICH guidelines
Empower
Maintenance and theory of analytical instrumentation
Desired experience for scientist, chemistry includes:
Must have a strong knowledge in statistical analysis such as mixture design, factorial designs
Working knowledge of common spectroscopic techniques such as NMR, IR, UV, and MS prior experience in use of HPLC and LC-MS is required
Good lab technique is a must
Working knowledge of standard chemical database tools such as Scifinder, Beilstein is required
Mentor and guide junior scientists in setting up, purifying and characterizing chemical reactions including assistance in data interpretation
Timely completion of Design History Files
Scientist, Chemistry Examples
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Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of scientist, chemistry. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for scientist, chemistry
- Maintain a close interaction with medicinal chemistry teams, pharmaceutical development scientists, and chemical development teams
- Learn and effectively implement new experimental protocols and/or techniques
- Consult literature to understand scientific purpose of assignments
- Lead and conduct research and development projects
- Development of standards, specifications and test procedures for oils, lubricants and greases
- Collaboration with engineering and product development
- Establishes robust methods
- 1+ years’ experience various chemical extraction techniques (liquid-liquid, solid-liquid)
- 1+ years’ experience activity guided fractionation and compound isolation
- 1+ years’ experience quantification of specific compounds in complex mixtures
Qualifications for scientist, chemistry
- Prefer 2-5 years' of experience working in a chemistry laboratory
- Polymer/organic synthesis skills
- Develop and troubleshoot synthetic pathways to desired products
- Air-free chemistry techniques
- Experience with UV/Vis and fluorescence spectroscopy
- Experience operating FPLC/HPLC/GPC equipment
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Our company is growing rapidly and is looking for a scientist, chemistry. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for scientist, chemistry
- These activities may include production and characterization of samples, instrument support, surface chemistry, sequencing, and data analysis
- Contribute to drug discovery efforts by applying computational chemistry approaches such as ligand docking, molecular dynamics simulations, pharmacophore modeling, QSAR/ADMET models, and small library design
- Drug chemistry
- Hands-on generation of solid state chemistry data using laboratory techniques such as polarized microscopy, powder X-ray diffraction, thermal analysis, water vapor sorption, NMR (solid state and liquid), vibrational spectroscopy, intrinsic dissolution
- Application and creation of informatics and modeling tools applied to route design, reaction mechanism elucidation, catalyst design, and compound scale-up in process chemistry
- Collaborate with analytical chemistry on the characterization of chemical entities
- Be responsible for conducting research directed toward the development of efficient routes for the synthesis of potential drug candidates
- The individual will be expected to remain conversant with the modern chemical literature and to maintain a strong laboratory presence
- Independently design, demonstrate, optimize, and document chemical processes for small molecule drug candidates
- Transfer and troubleshoot chemical processes with our outsourcing partners
Qualifications for scientist, chemistry
- Typically requires minimum of a BS degree in Polymer or Organic Chemistry
- Experience in organic chemistry analytical techniques
- Publication record in drug discovery
- Advanced theoretical and practical knowledge in the area of molecular quantum chemistry
- Experience with the TURBOMOLE program package would be optimal but not mandatory
- Demonstrates inter-disciplinary knowledge of drug discovery (e.g., enzymology, cellular pharmacology, and pharmacokinetics) and is able to use this knowledge to influence project strategy
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Our company is hiring for a scientist, chemistry. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for scientist, chemistry
- Active participation in discussions in medicinal chemistry team meetings
- Presentation of results to chemistry and project teams
- Analytical Chemistry and Materials analysis expertise
- Preference for Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, or a Materials Science background
- Perform data analysis by using instrument computer software and office applications such as Word, PowerPoint, and Excel
- Use low-volume laboratory liquid sample handling equipment (micropipettes) to prepare samples and solutions
- Work with multiple scientists within the group to effectively schedule work
- Develop new analytical tools and assays as needed to analyze data, derive conclusions, document findings and prepare reports for sharing within and between R&D groups
- Analyze prospective protein targets for druggability and therapeutic relevance using computational methods and available databases
- Application and creation of informatics and modeling tools to accelerate the evolution of high functioning biocatalysts obtained through directed evolution and other means
Qualifications for scientist, chemistry
- Practical experience in wet chemistry techniques (FTIR spectroscopy, UV-Vis spectroscopy, titration)
- Expertise in at least one area of drug design
- Good understanding of structure based methods and medicinal chemistry principles
- Good understanding of pharmacology principles as they pertain to drug development
- Expertise in one area of synthetic chemistry
- Ability to present work formally to Research Committee and at external conferences
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Our growing company is hiring for a scientist, chemistry. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for scientist, chemistry
- Evaluate and implement methods for chemical analysis and quantification of organic materials in solid and liquid forms
- Evaluate and implement methods for synthesizing organic compounds
- Communicate experimental findings from chemical analyses in a format accessible to non-technical team members
- Specify, operate and maintain analytical equipment
- Write work instructions for procedures developed
- Analysis of complex data sets and creation of design hypotheses
- Troubleshoot and optimize reaction sequences to generate informative compounds in parallel
- Lead the workload to meet aggressive timelines
- Serve as part of cross-functional project teams, which impact product specifications, change controls, and other key contributors to consumer production
- Products include reagents, calibrators, buffers, controls
Qualifications for scientist, chemistry
- Strong track record of scientific contributions in the field of medicinal chemistry
- May travel to various domestic conferences or client sites, including overnight trips
- They would have potential capability in supervising research associates
- PhD with no more than 6 years experience or will be graduating with PhD in 2016-17
- 5+ years specific experience in process chemistry or CMC
- Master’s degree or PhD in organic chemistry or chemical engineering with 3+ years relevant experience in research or industry
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Our company is growing rapidly and is searching for experienced candidates for the position of scientist, chemistry. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for scientist, chemistry
- Demonstrated flexibility when balancing projects and priorities
- Ability up to travel 10% of the time
- Documents laboratory work that is detailed, timely and in compliance with GLP/GMP - Other duties as assigned by his/her supervisor
- Execute experiments, following the company’s Standard Operating Procedures, Deviations and Change Control programs and cGMP guidelines
- Comply with safety and regulatory requirements is expected and documented through our internal training program
- Design and conduct advanced research using in situ and/or time-resolved small-angle x-ray scattering
- Serve as a primary technical contact on small-angle x-ray scattering and its use in materials characterization
- Organize and lead a research project on voids and microstructure within actinide materials
- Contribute to programs investigating properties of high explosives and detonation, such as kinetics of carbon condensation behind detonation fronts
- Collaborate with scientists in multidisciplinary team environment to accomplish research goals and support missions of LLNL
Qualifications for scientist, chemistry
- Knowledge and understanding of commercial oils and lubricants, manufacturing processes, analytical characterizations and measurement techniques
- Implement processes to apply Rosetta modeling and Molecular Dynamics approaches
- Provide computational chemistry support for developing small molecule, peptide and large molecule technologies
- Develop novel computational chemistry/cheminformatics methods/applications in solving drug discovery problems
- Contribute to ongoing discovery projects
- Experience in Rosetta