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When you’re part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll do important work, like helping customers in finding cures for cancer, protecting the environment or making sure our food is safe. Your work will have real-world impact, and you’ll be supported in achieving your career goals.
Location/Division Specific Information
Work Location: Cincinnati, OH (on-site)
Group: Pharma Services Group
Division: Drug Product Division
How will you make an impact?
As an Analytical Development Representative you will participate on client project teams by providing technical input and support for both the internal team and the customer: set timelines, schedule work requests, define and resolve issues, communicate results. You will recognize and solve complex, non-routine analytical and product problems independently.
What will you do?
- Provide technical leadership in the application of analytical sciences to the development of customers’ pharmaceutical products.
- Act as the main contact and interact with customers directly.
- Oversee the validation of test methods for pharmaceutical raw materials and finished products including the preparation of method validation documents. Methods to determine strength, impurities, identity, and dissolution by HPLC, GC, dissolution, spectroscopy, and traditional quantitative analysis, applying HPLC, GC, LC/MS, dissolution, spectroscopy, and traditional wet chemical testing. Determine methodology to be used.
- Effectively communicate results and project status.
- Be the Subject Matter Expert to assist the team supervisor with investigations and analytical problems.
- Advise on current standard methodologies, challenges, and industry trends.
- Contribute to the preparation and filing of project regulatory documents. Communicate with outside departments, corporate sites, and customers.
How will you get here?
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in physical science, preferably in Chemistry or Biology required.
- Master's or PhD degree in Chemistry preferred.
- Equivalent combinations of education, training, and relevant work experience may be considered.
Experience
- 3+ years’ experience in the pharmaceutical industry, analytical development, or quality control.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Excellent knowledge and understanding of chemistry and analytical instrumental technologies.
- Excellent knowledge of qualitative and quantitative chemical analysis.
- Excellent understanding of quality and regulatory requirements in the pharmaceutical industry, including pharmaceutical GMPs and descriptive organic chemistry.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and logical approach to solving scientific problems. Excellent proficiency with HPLC, GC, LC/MS and Dissolution techniques (method development and validation).
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (both oral and written). Excellent presentation skills to present information to customers, clients, and other employees. Excellent leadership skills.
- Ability to read, analyze, and interpret technical procedures and governmental regulations. Ability to write standard operating procedures and policy manuals.
- Ability to respond to complex inquiries or complaints from customers or regulatory agencies.
- Ability to apply mathematical operations, to such tasks as determination of test reliability, analysis of variance, and correlation techniques.
- Ability to mentor junior team members.
Physical Requirements
- Position requires ordinary ambulatory skills and physical coordination sufficient to move about office locations; ability to stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch periodically for prolonged periods of time; manipulation (lift, carry, move) of light to medium weights of 10-35 pound pounds; arm, hand and finger dexterity, including ability to grasp and type for prolonged periods of time; visual acuity to use a keyboard, computer monitor, operate equipment, and read materials for prolonged periods of time; ability to sit, reach with hands and arms, talk, and hear for prolonged periods of time.
- Safety glasses, safety shoes, lab coat, latex or similar gloves, safety apron, organic respirator occasionally.
This position has not been approved for relocation assistance.
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