Senior Chemist

Job Description

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.

• Conducts exploratory research to produce new knowledge and potential products; conceives, organizes, promotes, and executes ideas and plans to increase chemistry's role in and contribution to the discovery and chemical approaches to meet exploratory objectives in product discovery.
• Develops research proposals to provide a technically and economically sound basis for developing and evaluating new or improved products, synthetic methods, processes, and analytical and physical testing techniques.
• Recommends utilization of the results or changes in the scope of work or termination of projects.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Advanced degree in chemistry or chemical engineering or related technical field;
• 5+ years of experience in R&D within medical device or pharmaceutical industries;
• Experience with new product development and sustaining project support;
• Expertise in combination device analytical test method development and validation: HPLC, GC, dissolution, bioassay;
• Formulation and testing experience with adhesives, cyanoacrylates preferred;
• Expertise with analytical instrumentation, including troubleshooting: dissolution USP Apparatuses, HPLC-DAD, GPC, GC-FID/MS, Karl Fischer, FT-IR and UV-Vis;
• Strong problem-solving capabilities;
• Solid oral and written communication skills;
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks and lead projects;
• Experience in moderate and complex data analyses using statistical techniques;
• Experience of using chromatography software: Empower and MassHunter;
• Experience using common electronic documentation software (e.g. MAP, Agile or equivalent).