Assoc Scientist - Organic Chemistry - HTE

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Adherence to all Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) Safety Standards

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life - enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research, development and delivery of life-changing therapies. With clinical trials conducted in 100+ countries and ongoing development of novel frameworks for clinical research through our PPD clinical research portfolio, our work spans laboratory, digital and decentralized clinical trial services. Your determination to deliver quality and accuracy will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on – now and in the future.

Thermo Fisher's clinical research business is a leading global contract research organization and world leader in serving science. We are passionate, deliberate, and driven by our mission – to enable our customers to make the world healthier, safer, and cleaner.

Within our Analytical Services team, we have a functional service provider solution, which is a unique partnership that allows our customers to leverage the experience of our staff, while allowing you, the employee, to gain direct experience working onsite at a pharmaceutical/ biopharmaceutical company, all while maintaining full-time benefits.

Key responsibilities:

• Design and execute high throughput experimentation (HTE) using laboratory automation to solve process chemistry problems
• Troubleshoot and optimize multi-step reaction sequences
• Generates effective hypotheses to pursue synthesis or manufacturing goals and set new experimental direction
• Make conceptual contributions to development activities and scientific strategies.
• Develop novel and creative solutions to overcome synthetic and manufacturing obstacles.
• Clearly communicate experimental results to stakeholders using multi-dimensional data analysis tools (e.g. JMP, Spotfire)
• Maintain laboratory automation equipment and develop new protocols
• Collaborate with synthetic project teams in a cross-functional environment
• Author or contribute to technical documents including technical reports, regulatory submissions, patents, and scientific papers
• Multitasks to effectively manage multiple activities/projects
• Adhere to laboratory documentation practices, safety policies and practices
  
  

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in lab sciences such as Chemistry, Biochemistry, Material Science, Immunology, Biology, Molecular Biology or similar
• Assoc Scientist: Previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 0-2 years’)
  
  

In some cases, an equivalency, consisting of a combination of appropriate education, training and/or directly related experience, will be considered sufficient for an individual to meet the requirements of the role.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Experience planning, executing experiments, and interpreting analytical data (H/UPLC, NMR, MS, etc.)
• NICE TO HAVE - Experience with any of the following: high throughput experimentation, laboratory automation (i.e. Chronect/QX96, Chemspeed, Unchained Labs, Hamilton, Tecan, etc.), biocatalysis, flow chemistry, cheminformatics, Python, reaction kinetic analysis
• Desire to learn high through-put experimentation skills is a must
• Strong organizational and communication skills
  
  

Working Environment:

Below is listed the working environment/requirements for this role:

Able to communicate, receive, and understand information and ideas with diverse groups of people in a comprehensible and reasonable manner.

Able to work upright and stationary and/or standing for typical working hours.

Able to lift and move objects up to 25 pounds

Able to work in non-traditional work environments.

Able to use and learn standard office equipment and technology with

proficiency.

May have exposure to potentially hazardous elements, including infectious agents, typically found in healthcare or laboratory environments.

Able to perform successfully under pressure while prioritizing and handling multiple projects or activities.

Benefits

We offer competitive remuneration, annual incentive plan bonus, healthcare, and a range of employee benefits. Thermo Fisher Scientific offers employment with an innovative, forward-thinking organization, and outstanding career and development prospects. We offer an exciting company culture that stands for integrity, intensity, involvement, and innovation!