Our client, a Fortune 500 chemical manufacturer, is seeking to hire a Senior Solubilization Scientist who will work in the specialty ingredients group. This group has been working on spray dried and melt extruded solid dispersions and associated products for over a decade and has extensive experience in process technology and formulation development.
Job Responsibilities:
- Providing deep technical expertise regarding the development of pharmaceutical products through hot melt extrusion (HME) and spray drying.
- Designing, initiating and executing studies, and interpreting the study results
- Assimilating and analyzing data into reports, posters, and journal articles.
- Presenting study results to internal and external audience
- Managing multiple projects, estimating timeline and resources, and coordinating efforts to meet timeline
- Training the technical and sales team in formulation development with emphasis in solid dispersions.
- Working closely with other R&D sites and technical support teams to solve challenging technical problems for customers.
- Conducting necessary literature search
- Maintaining lab notebooks and logbooks in accordance with company guidelines
- Comply with company procedural guidelines, laboratory procedures, and safety programs.
Experience/ other certification required:
- Ph.D. degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chemistry, or Chemical Engineering with 4+ years of experience in pharmaceutical formulation development, or MS degree with minimum of 8+ years of relevant experience
- Thorough understanding on formulation processes such as granulation, tableting and coating.
- Thorough knowledge on solid dispersions and analytical techniques used to characterize amorphous solid dispersions.
- Extensive hands-on experience with hot melt extrusion and / or spray drying
- Fundamental understanding on pharmaceutical product development
- Strong written and oral presentation skills
Experience Desired:
- Strong scientific understanding on bio pharmaceutics
- Working knowledge of Design of Experiments (DOE), Microsoft Office Suite, and statistical analysis.
- Project management experience
- Time management
- Teamwork/interpersonal skill
- Ability to work under pressure
- Willingness to supervise junior scientists
Compensation for this role will be commensurate with experience. To apply with interest, please provide an updated MSWord version of your resume and salary range
