31st October Jobroll: Practical Chemistry

Continuing to work through the autumn backlog of jobs, today’s selection of practical chemistry opportunities are from NatureJobs:

Senior chemistry technician for a drug development services company in Nottingham. Responsible for maintaining GMP compliance (eg, eqpt and documentation), ordering materials and providing advice for these activities. BSc required; experience of working to GMP and handling of radioactivity advantageous.

Lead R&D chemist (£30-35k) for a pharmaceutical development company in the South West. Lead a small team of chemists; support manufacture of products to cGMP and non-GMP on lab scale (<20L). Requires PhD, extensive industrial experience in chemical R&D and cGMP; supervision experience desirable.

Synthetic organic chemist for Polytherics in Camden, London – a company specialising in “the use of biomedical polymers for the optimisation of therapeutic drugs.” The job will involve preparing and characterising polymer-based reagents for the site-specific PEGylation of therapeutic proteins and peptides. Degree required; experience with derivitisation of polymers and industrial experience advantageous. An exciting opportunity to join a new (2002) company – and for those with a penchant for craft beer, their labs are a 3-minute walk from the BrewDog Camden Bar due to open this year.

Process chemist in Cork, Ireland to support Production with process development, robustness and optimisation; tech transfer and investigating process deviations. Graduate (or PhD) with 2-3 years experience in process chemistry.

Inorganic chemist in Northamptonshire for a chemical testing provider. Joining the metals analysis team (ICP-MS), working mainly on leather substrates and nickel testing. BSc + industrial experience with ICP-MS required.

Development scientist (£28k + benefits + “prestige of working for a high technology company”) for a 6-month contract in Swindon. Prepare sample components using coating techniques. Lab experience required, with only a “knowledge of chemistry”.

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26th October Jobroll: Best of the Rest

A round-up of some more diverse jobs from ChemistryWorldJobs advertised over the last month:

Croda create speciality chemicals to optimise polymer processing. Their manufacturing site in Hull is recruiting for a research team leader to drive experimental research programmes to generate new products. A degree and experience delivering and managing multiple projects is required.

Vertex in Oxfordshire are looking for a research scientist to join the medchem research team. This would suite a chemist with a broad analytical background and experience in purification and characterisation. The chosen candidate will take responsibility for all purification and analytical instrumentation in the department and lead a small team.

Ceimig is a supplier of precious metal chemicals. A technical sales executive (£25-30k) is sought to identify opportunities and close contractual agreements for their products, and help commercialise their IP. A degree, excellent interpersonal skills and willingness for regular travel and irregular hours is required. Operating out of the manufacturing site in Dundee, but this may be flexible.

A consultancy firm in Scotland is looking for a senior materials chemist (£40-50k) to design and manage the analysis of materials projects from a wide range of industries. This role will help grow the business and manage a team of material scientists. Experience managing a team, and the use of SEMs, EDX, FT-IR required.

A compliance/validation officer (£24-27k) is required to support all aspects of Quality Assurance at a Kent-based company involved with diagnostic/therapeutic intermediates, traded products and IVDs. An understanding of ISO9001 quality system, and compliance/validation experience – preferably from a cGMP environment – are required.

A Suffolk-based pharmaceutical company is recruiting a Lean specialist. Working in a small team of specialists that report directly to management, the candidate will have practical experience of implementing Lean protocols in a pharma/biotech environment, good knowledge of GMP and an engineering background.

24th October Jobroll: Practical Chemistry

Today’s selection of practical chemistry jobs are from ChemistryWorldJobs:

A company in the South East is looking for scientists to work in the research team, developing high activity heterogeneous catalysts. The assistant chemist (£19-25k) will have lab experience, preferably preparing, testing and analysing heterogenous catalysts. The senior chemist (£25-36k) will have PhD level experience, a strong understanding of heterogenous catalysis and development, and experience with a few specified catalytic reactions.

KalVista in Southampton are recruiting a medicinal chemist to the drug discovery team. Designing target compounds, and designing and optimising synthetic routes to targets, the role requires a PhD or degree with 2 years lab experience and a knowledge of the drug discovery process. 12-month contract initially.

Another medicinal chemistry department requires a research scientist at Oxfordshire-based Vertex. Similar job description and experience to the above, permanent position.

Contract research organisation Peakdale Molecular are offering a number of positions to synthetic organic chemists at various levels, to join teams working to complete synthetic projects to tight deadlines. 6-month contracts and permanent positions are available, based in either the new Discovery Park in Sandwich (Kent) or the Peak District.

Finally, a research chemist (£30k) is required at Lubrizol, near Derby. The successful candidate will carry out the synthesis and process development of speciality chemicals used as engine oil additives, remaining involved with the chemistry up to production and commercialisation. PhD or good degree with speciality chemical industry experience.

23rd October: BP Jobs Special – Part 2

Here are a few more opportunities at BP where a chemistry degree can take you away from the bench.

View details 25781BR - Future Leaders Programme – R&M Technology (Hull, Pangbourne)
A 3-4 year programme to build a professional network, accelerate development and prepare you for being a leader at BP. Experience: Good degree with Masters/PhD/MBA, international experience, willingness to travel. More details at the FLP website – closes end Nov.

View details 26151BR - PRL Lab Operations and Safety Co-ordinator (Sunbury)
Support implementation of HSSE processes in the Pushing Reservoir Limits labs, and continuous improvement. Experience: Formal HSSE qualification, experience in oil/gas industry.

View details 21046BR - Production Chemist (multiple sites, inc travel)
Deliver Production Chemistry solutions, engage with engineers, provide consultation. Experience: Chemistry/Chem Eng degree.

View details 19319BR - Production Chemist (Sunbury)
Act as an internal consultant to provide production chemistry assurance to assets and projects. Experience: BSc, experience in production chemistry, and extensive knowledge of oil/gas industry chemistry.

View details 21065BR - Senior Development Technologist - Diesel Fuel (Pangbourne)
Lead diesel fuel product development, manage projects, supervision of staff. Experience: HND/degree, project management.

View details 27411BR - Carbonate EOR Chemist (Sunbury)
Lead ground breaking rock/fluid interaction experimental studies to support Enhanced Oil Recovery technologies. BSc, with experience/knowledge of surface chem/colloid science/geology.

View details 27418BR - EOR Chemist (Sunbury)
Identify novel chemical processes to improve recovery in oil reservoirs, direct internal and external R&D projects. Experience. PhD, knowledge of geochemistry and petroleum geology.

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