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R&D Scientist
Location: SV ChemBioTech Inc., Research facility located in Edmonton, Canada
Job Requirements & Responsibilities:
PhD in synthetic organic chemistry with 5+ years’ work experience after completing the degree with at least 3-4 years in pharmaceutical industry, specialised in medicinal chemistry and process R&D.
OR
MSc in synthetic organic chemistry, with 10+ years’ work experience after completing the degree.
Job Requirements & Responsibilities:
PhD in synthetic organic chemistry with 5+ years’ work experience after completing the degree with at least 3-4 years in pharmaceutical industry, specialised in medicinal chemistry and process R&D.
OR
MSc in synthetic organic chemistry, with 10+ years’ work experience after completing the degree.
- In depth knowledge of organic reactions and their mechanisms and conducting organic reactions.
- Experience and strong ability and skills to search the chemical literature with SciFinder, Reaxys and other tools.
- Experience to plan and develop and trouble shoot complex multi-step syntheses.
- Strong knowledge in carrying out a wide variety of organic laboratory techniques including, but not limited to handling anhydrous reagents, modern organometallic synthetic methods.
- Experience to characterize organic compounds of complex structure by independent interpretation of spectral data as NMR, IR, Mass.
- Experience in developing methods for separating complex organic mixtures and using fundamental chromatography techniques and advanced purification techniques (experienced on Biotage, prep HPLC etc would be added advantage).
- Ability to work on several different projects of varying lengths and complexity.
- Perform process development and research. Experience in the translation of a laboratory method of making an organic compound in milligram scale suitable for scaling to a production process on kilogram to tonne scale while maintaining the quality, reproducibility, minimum cost.