Senior Analytical Chemist Job Description: Are you a skilled analytical chemist looking for a challenging role that will utilize your technical expertise? Do you have experience leading teams and providing technical guidance to ensure successful development and validation of phase appropriate analytical methods?
We are seeking an experienced Senior Analytical Chemist/Team Lead to join our team on a permanent basis. As a Senior Analytical Chemist, you will be responsible for providing technical expertise to ensure successful development and validation of phase appropriate analytical methods pertaining to the manufacture of small molecule APIs and intermediates.
The ideal candidate will have a strong technical background in chemistry, particularly analytical chemistry, and experience of personnel management or leading teams. You will also have excellent core competencies such as teamwork, communication skills, and technical writing skills.
In this role, you will lead analytical technology transfer to site, direct management, supervision, and mentorship of analytical chemists, draft and oversee execution of Analytical Qualification Plans (AQPs) and analytical protocols, support R&D analytical chemists in analytical testing for analytical method development, validation, qualification, and release testing, and carry out analytical testing in a timely manner for analytical method development, analytical testing, validation, and qualification, where appropriate to ensure project deadlines are met.
You will also ensure GMP Compliance and right first-time completion of all laboratory operations and documentation, including testing, write-ups, review, and approval of protocols, reports, and change controls, review batch paperwork and associated logbooks to ensure testing has been completed in compliance with procedures, provide expert and technical support with instrumentation or analytical methodology and laboratory investigations/quality events or related issues, raise and closeout laboratory investigations/quality events in a timely manner and complete a thorough investigation, champion Empower updates, build, and compliance for the group, coordinate and oversee the training of AR&D personnel in new techniques, ensure a culture of OpEx exists within the group and support the OpEx projects, interact with customers and the wider SK network on a project or campaign basis to track progress of activities, identify continuous improvement opportunities, and resolve issues, act as technical team lead on a number of projects having responsibility for Analytical milestone delivery on assigned projects, set high performance standards, drive, and motivate analytical chemists to achieve individual targets and objectives.