Scientist - Chemistry
- Recruiter
- Sphere Fluidics Limited
- Location
- Cambridge, Cambridgeshire (GB)
- Salary
- £24,000 - £32,000
- Posted
- 12 Jul 2018
- Closes
- 27 Jul 2018
- Ref
- XL07
- Sector
- Biotechnology, Chemistry, Drug Discovery, Life Sciences, Pharmaceutical, Production and Operations, Quality Control, Synthetic Chemistry
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Key duties include:
- Production of the company’s key specialist chemical products;
- Production of the company’s key microfluidic biochip products;
- Conducting QA/QC to assure the company products meet and/or exceed the set quality standards;
- Maintaining stable supply chain of critical materials for production;
- Maintaining appropriate stock of the company’s chemical products;
- Maintaining production tracking records and documentation to meet ISO 9001 requirements;
- Shipping the company’s products to customers;
- Complying with the company’s set safety standards and policies;
- Developing new chemicals and novel microfluidic biochips;
- Interaction with existing collaborators on approved R&D projects;
- Generation and/or input to new publications and patents.
Required qualifications, skills and experience:
- MSc or PhD in organic chemistry, and proven working experience in a chemistry laboratory environment;
- Practical experience and knowledge of a wide range of synthetic chemistry reactions and techniques;
- Past experience in chemical production and quality management is highly desirable;
- Experience in the development and scale-up of chemical processes to large scale labs and pilot processes is favourable;
- Experience in working closely with customers is of added value in this position;
- Excellent communication skills is essential;
- The ability to work both independently and collaboratively is highly desirable;
- Soft-lithography fabrication and microfluidics development experience are advantages;
- Mass Spectrometry experience is an advantage.