Research Scientist / Lead Scientist - Synthesis

Qualifications:

PhD with 2+ years experience

OR MS with 5+ years of experience, preferably in Chemical industry

Key Responsibilities:

• Literature search and evaluation
• Plan safe, scaleable and commercially viable synthetic routes for the preparation of fragrance and flavor compounds
• New process development
• Cost reduction in existing commercial processes
• Impurity Synthesis and characterization
• Trouble shooting regarding commercial non-conformance batches
• Progress report preparation and presentation
• Document review regarding process development and validation
• SOPs/ guidelines preparation, review and training
• Facilitate internal audits
• Maintain safety standards & lab discipline
• Team development
• Maintain & upgrade R&D infrastructure

Experience In

• Experience of handling the complete management of synthetic organic chemistry projects.
• Responsible for literature search and designing the synthetic route and schemes of the organic compounds of interest.
• Synthesis, purification and structural elucidation of organic compound in milligram to kilogram scale
• Ability of improvement in product manufacturing process for efficient optimization and cost reduction in commercial product from R&D scale to pilot plant.
• Ability to handle product safely on chemical process & the ability to estimate and remove the risk for pilot plant production.
• Responsible for managing other research chemist in order to achieve the objective goal as well as leadership in the function and ability to work together with other relevant section.
• Experience of process development, validation, commercialization, process safety data interpretation and troubleshooting of the upstream and downstream process
• Calibration, operation and maintenance of variety of laboratory equipment as specified by the requirements of the research study.
• Excellent understanding of organic chemistry fundamentals including stereochemistry, and reaction mechanisms
• Familiarity with Gas Chromatography, Mass Spectrometry, H & C NMR, IR and UV-vis spectroscopy
• Experience with Design of Experiments (DoE) software or knowledge of DoE is preferred
• Experience with reaction kinetics/mechanistic investigation is a plus