Scientist - Chemistry

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.