Location: Cardiff, UK
Reports to: Analytical Team Leader
Contract: Permanent
Compensation: £30k-40k
Company Benefits: 25 days holidays (increases with tenure) + private medical cover + life cover + pension scheme options + volunteering days + other enhanced company benefits.
Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities
- Reporting directly to the Analytical Team Leader, your responsibilities will include:
- With support, acting as the Analytical Lead on customer projects, taking personal responsibility for the quality, integrity, communication, and delivery of science on your projects.
- Development and validation of analytical methods for small molecule intermediates, API and drug products (such as LC/GC) and novel solutions that meet our customer expectations and timelines
- Analytical problem solving and instrument troubleshooting working as one team with other members of PR&D
- Application of digital tools and approaches to deliver fast and efficient process understanding for our clients
- Strong safety standards in the laboratory in own work and compliance of team with safety principles, acts as a role model
Knowledge and Skills
The ideal candidate will have:
- BSc in Chemistry (or related subject) PhD advantageous
- Experience in analytical science with expertise in a field applied to the development of pharmaceutical products or related chemical industries.
- Proven ability to develop scientifically sound and robust methods of analysis using HPLC, GC and other related techniques, Experience in writing clear reports from complex analytical data, drawing clear conclusions and the ability to communicate in technical language
- Experience in one or more common chromatographic data systems from Agilent, Waters, Thermo, Shimadzu and others
- An appreciation of, or expertise in, synthetic chemistry, physical organic, and/or catalysis would be advantageous
- Well-developed data management and visualisation skills
- Good knowledge of applicable standards and an understanding of HSSE
Person specification
- Passion for science is essential, as a member of the AnalytiSci team your role contributes to the success of the organisation
- Self-motivated and results-oriented with a clear personal focus on the delivery of project objectives
- Enthusiastic, creative, and willing to learn; keen for challenging new experiences
- Good communicator, using written and verbal media
- Confident to make decisions with integrity to support the business
- Strong personal awareness and high levels of emotional intelligence
- Demonstrates a genuine commitment to the time and effort needed to develop oneself
- Supports a culture of continuous improvement