Job Title: Lead Chemist
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
Pleasanton, CA/GSD Operations- Specialty Chemical MFG department
How will you make an impact?
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science, we help our customers accelerate life sciences research, solve complex analytical challenges, improve patient diagnostics, deliver medicines to market and increase laboratory productivity. Through our premier brands – Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, and Unity Lab Services – we offer unmatched combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and comprehensive services.
What you will do:
The Specialty Chemical Manufacturing team is responsible for producing many of the key chemical compounds used in oligo synthesis, PCR and sequencing including fluorescent dyes, amidites, polystyrene supports, linkers, NHS esters and functionalized nucleosides. We are seeking a lead chemist with experiences in organic chemistry to support our manufacturing operations in organization and execution of production flow as well as reporting and documentation of production results. This individual should have strong communication, leadership, technical and operational skills to join our dynamic and fast paced team. This role will be responsible for managing the junior chemists and will also help the production team in implementing manufacturing protocols and performing in-process testing of products on HPLC, UV/Vis and NMR. The candidate will follow SOPs and work in compliance with safety, regulatory and quality guidelines.
How will you get here?
Education
Requires a Bachelor's degree or higher in Chemistry with an emphasis on Organic Synthesis.
Experience
- 2-3 years of scientific experience in Organic Chemistry/manufacturing
- 2 years of leadership experience is preferred.
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities
- Experience as a team leader.
- Experience working with manager to identify issues, resource needs, and improvement opportunities. Offer suggestions for resolution/improvements.
- Ability to perform HPLC analysis, and 1H/31P/13C NMR
- Working knowledge of manufacturing environments
- Experience in participating and leading in Continuous Improvement- Practical Process Improvement (PPI) events and problem solving
- Experience in driving the PPI business system by encouraging employees to submit JDIs in and using the PPI process to drive Improvements
- Monitor, track, and provide feedback on employee performance through PMD process
- Provide coaching and corrective actions when needed
- Manage employee time and attendance through Workday
- Participate in project implementation
This position does not have relocation Assistance
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