What are the responsibilities and job description for the Application Specialist in PAT Implementation position at Nova Industrial Analytics?
Required: Advanced degree in chemistry, physics, math or manufacturing process control
Experience across multiple industries for real-time process measurements including:
- Pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical manufacturing (primary and secondary)
- Food and Beverage production and packaging
- Oil and gas production, including downstream processing, blending and transportation; biofuels
Expertise in chemometric model development across industries including
- Model development
- Model maintenance, model transfer
- Customer liaison
Familiarity with various industry standards such as
- USP, EMEA for pharmaceutical
- ASME standards for oil and gas
- Sanitary standards for food and beverage
- Hazardous area requirements and implementation
Excellent understanding of spectrometer operation including
- Fluency in several spectrometer data acquisition software platforms
- Baseline/background measurements
- Parameters effecting wavelength accuracy, photometric accuracy and noise in spectra and how to optimize
- Types and operating methods of various spectrometers
- Types and operating methods of various light sources
Advanced fluency in chemometric modeling
- Fluent in multiple modeling packages
Excellent communication skills
- English fluency required
- Ability to create customer facing documentation and reports
- Support sales activities
- Fluent in all Microsoft office applications
General laboratory skills
- Benchtop/lab measurements as required for proof of concept or model development
- Ability to travel to customer sites
Other desirable skills
- Fluency in reading/reviewing mechanical engineering drawings
- Basic electrical engineering familiarity
- Basic software/firmware familiarity; ability to write software specifications
- Communication protocols and interfaces for plant control systems
- Understanding of quality control systems for document and drawing management and control
- Demonstrated ability to write and submit successful grant applications