AddressDescription
Actively Hiring: Formulations Chemist
(Location: Indianapolis, IN)
Description:
This company is the only major agriscience company completely dedicated to agriculture. By combining the strengths of DuPont Pioneer, DuPont Crop Protection and Dow AgroSciences, we've harnessed agriculture's brightest minds and expertise gained over two centuries of scientific achievement. Our purpose is to enrich the lives of those who produce and those who consume, ensuring progress for generations to come.
Summary:
This company has the responsibility to develop new active ingredients and new formulated products that are competitive with the current and future market conditions. The individual in the Biological Formulation Technologist position will support the creation and development novel formulations and delivery systems for new and existing active ingredients in our Biological Business. The types of actives we work with include microbes, nucleotides, virus, proteins, enzymes, extracts and naturally sourced molecules. The individual will collaborate with other functions in R&D to explore, test in proof of concept, and reduce to practice novel delivery concepts, and advance successful technologies and product concepts through stage-gate pipeline to business case and commercialization.
Responsibilities:
Support senior members in the exploration, proof of concept, and development of novel formulations, production processes and delivery system technologies and concepts for new and registered active ingredients.
Collaboration with other functions across the company to deliver maximum success, such as analytical R&D, process development, application technology, biology, agronomy, regulatory, operations and commercial teams.
Maintenance of good laboratory documentation report writing.
Compliance with laboratory safety procedures.
Under guidance of senior colleagues, develops hypotheses, plans and executes effective experiments, generates reproducible data, interprets results, and modifies hypotheses appropriately.
Supports the investigation of product quality concerns / issues and troubleshooting of product quality issues at plant level, conducts rework evaluations and provides recommendations to the plant.
Consistently applies sound scientific methods to solve technical problems.
Qualifies new active ingredient and raw material sources, characterizes materials, and supports shelf-life date extensions for existing products.
Intellectual property (IP) capture and research report writing and presentations.
Skills:
Laboratory, Chemistry, Formulation, Quality Control, Organic syntheses, Synthetic organic, Scale-Up, Formulation Design, Formulation Development, Fermentation, Biology, Development, R&d, Research & development
Top Skills Details:
Laboratory,Chemistry,Formulation
Additional Skills & Qualifications:
Must Haves:
B.S. in Life Science (Chemistry or Chemical Engineering Preferred).
2+ years of demonstrated competence in the area of formulation technology.
Strong knowledge or experience working with biological actives and developing biological actives.
Ability to work independently and drive projects to completion.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Nice to Have:
Working knowledge of formulation design & development and product registration process.
Experience working with fermentation and recovery technology for biological actives.
Experience working with HTP technology and digital tools.
Computer programming and automation experience.
Experience Level:
Intermediate Level
Interviewing ASAP
- Reach out directly and apply to Jack McCue to be immediately in consideration for our current opportunities with your updated resume, a brief intro about you and your skills, and what method of communication works best for you (i.e., call, email, text)
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
At Actalent, diversity and inclusion are a bridge towards the equity and success of our people. DE&I are embedded into our culture through:
- Hiring diverse talent
- Maintaining an inclusive environment through persistent self-reflection
- Building a culture of care, engagement, and recognition with clear outcomes
- Ensuring growth opportunities for our people
Actalent is an equal opportunity employer.
About Actalent
Actalent connects passion with purpose. We help visionary companies advance their engineering and science initiatives through access to specialized experts that drive scale, innovation, and speed to market. With a network of almost 30,000 engineering and sciences consultants and more than 4,500 clients across the U.S., Canada, Asia, and Europe, Actalent serves many of the Fortune 500. An operating company of Allegis Group, the global leader in talent solutions, Actalent launched as a new specialized engineering and sciences services and workforce solutions brand in 2021.
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