Company Description

Veranova is a global leader in the development and manufacturing of complex active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) for pharma and biotech customers. With deep technical expertise and impressive flexibility, we develop solutions and processes that support and accelerate innovation.

Job Description

The Scientist position requires an in-depth understanding of instrumentation and techniques used for the preparative separation of small molecules, peptides and oligonucleotides in order to design, develop, and optimize purification processes for small and large scale purifications. These will support processed from development through to production manufacture of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) under cGMPs on larger scales. The Scientist role serves as the technical lead on projects and is tasked with creating an understanding of how purifications work on a fundamental level as well as how these processes will be scaled from a laboratory to a manufacturing environment while delivering projects on target with quantity, quality, time, and budget goals.

Principal Accountabilities

• Designs appropriate plans to meet complex purification project goals within the required timeline and budget.
• Recommends potential courses of action to clients and team leaders by providing solid results, findings, and technical solutions to project issues / day to day problems. 
• Proven track record of expertise of preparative purification by HPLC and/or SFC.
• Ability to design and implement separations methods to enable the isolation and purification of reactive intermediates, impurities, and active pharmaceutical ingredients (API).
• Integrate state-of-art separations techniques and technologies into proposed projects.
• Develop integrated separation science activities by collaboration with Analytical Development, Solid Form Sciences, and the wider Veranova resources.
• Responsible for internal and external technology transfer of separation processes into the manufacturing environment.
• Experience in development of achiral and chiral purifications and final analysis of purified compounds. 
• Drive continuous improvement to enable improved process understanding to ensure ‘right first time’ operation of separations processes.
• Represent Chemical Development Separations team in internal and external technical meetings. Keeps accurate, legible and complete records of all experiments and observations. 
• Generates written progress reports and clearly presents scientific results to clients. 
• Exhibits a high level of safety awareness and conducts lab operations in a safe manner as well as holds others accountable for safe behavior in the work environment. 
• Multi-tasks responsibilities including: laboratory work, preparing scientific reports and documents, presenting scientific findings to clients and management, using scientific literature to solve advanced technical problems.
• Performs additional scientific tasks with a high level of independence such as:
• Continuous learning and growth in new scientific fields and/or deepening level of competence in major field of expertise.
• Evaluates potential new projects and techniques. 
• Shares special skills and expertise with other team members and departments such as Analytical Development, Quality Control, Quality Assurance, and Production groups.
• Learns and follows all Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
• To carry out any other duties which are within the employee’s skills and abilities whenever reasonably instructed. 

Scope

• Responsible for monitoring project timelines and scope to help ensure these are met. Participates in developing project plans and provides thoughts on appropriate courses of action. Acts as a technical resource for more junior scientists. 
• Works with other members of the project team to drive the technical facets of the project forward. Uses technical knowledge and ability to interpret literature data to design day to day experimental plans. Decisions affecting the broader scope of the plan or business are made in conjunction with more senior members of the group.
• Generates high quality data, independently interprets results and draws scientifically valid conclusions. For less complex issues readily sets direction and course based on results and for more complex issues provides recommendations to senior members of the team before proceeding.

 Physical Demands & Work Environment

• While performing the duties of this job it is required to stand, walk, and use hands to operate objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands or arms; climb, balance, stoop, kneel, or crouch when necessary for job activity.
• Must be able to lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities include: near, distance, peripheral, color perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• Regularly works with moving mechanical parts and may work with toxic or caustic chemicals. The work may be performed in humid areas with low or high temperatures.

Qualifications

Education & Experience Required Qualifications

Technical / Professional Knowledge and Skills Competency 

• Previous technical experience in purification and chiral separations by HPLC or SFC.
• Ability to lead projects and provide direction to more junior coworkers. 
• Experienced in method development, optimizing and execution of preparative purifications.
• Experience with common analytical techniques such as: HPLC, GC, SFC, UV, LC-MS.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret English-language chemical periodicals, scientific journals, and regulatory documents.
• Ability to write clear and concise technical reports.
• Good understanding of Microsoft Office and other job-related software.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, recognize patterns, and draw conclusions from disparate information streams.
• Ability to interpret a variety of complex technical information and deal with both abstract and concrete variables.
• Ability to plan, organize, and oversee multiple independent research projects.
• Demonstrate ability to exercise good judgment and make decisions quickly.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience communicating effectively to management.
• Ability to work independently and in a team environment.
• Good organization and prioritizing skills.