Job Description
Kilo Lab Chemist, 12-month contract
Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Type of Role: Contract position, Inside IR35
Contract length: 12 months
Location: On site five days a week - Milton Park, Abingdon Oxon, OX14 4RW
Department: Process Chemistry
Looking for opportunities with purpose, impact and possibilities? Our client, Vertex, is a global biotechnology company that invests in scientific innovation. As they grow their pipeline at pace, they are strengthening their reputation for creating transformative medicines for people with serious diseases.
The Kilo Lab Chemist is a highly motivated, scientifically driven and enthusiastic individual who will design and develop chemistry on a synthetic project while conducting kilo laboratory experiments to enable the delivery of compounds to support toxicology studies, human studies, and technical transfer information internally and to contract research organizations externally.
This individual may develop new chemistry, improve existing chemistry and demonstrate such chemistries by delivering compounds at expected purity and batch size for the appropriate phase of development.
Key Duties & Responsibilities:
* Creative and skilled experimentalist. Must be able to demonstrate a track record of solving problems and creating new synthetic routes.
* Work as part of a team creating and improving synthetic approaches to pharmaceuticals.
* Plan and execute synthesis from gram to kilogram scale.
* Work with the Kilo Lab Manager and Process Safety specialist to ensure the safe operation of chemistry.
* Drives scientific excellence of self and maintains an in-depth knowledge of practical and theoretical understanding of process chemistry.
* Makes conceptual contributions to development activities and scientific strategies; introduces some new methodologies and solutions to overcome synthetic challenges and manufacturing obstacles.
* Maintain high quality records such as electronic lab books using ALCOA+ principles, compare diverse dataset to reach well-reasoned conclusions.
Skills & Experience
* PhD in Synthetic Organic Chemistry or MSc/MChem in Chemistry plus equivalent industrial experience in a synthetic laboratory.
* Experience in a Process Development role in which the scaling-up of chemistry was a focus..
* Thorough academic grounding in the core elements of synthetic Organic Chemistry, with a track record of solving complex synthetic problems.
* Ability to work to deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
* Display a flexible approach with the ability and experience working at a variety of reaction scales and address shifting priorities.
* Basic understanding of analytical techniques (HPLC, GC, metal analysis, water determination, solid state analysis, 1H, 13C NMR and MS).
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills to explain complex technical/scientific information to the wider team.
Vertex is partnering with Talent Works to manage their international temporary job openings. If you are successful in your application, you will be employed by Talent Works to work on a temporary assignment at Vertex.