Eurofins
Particle Engineering Scientist
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Company Description
Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic, and labelling is accurate.
The Eurofins network is dedicated to delivering testing services that contribute to the health and safety of society and the planet, and to its corporate responsibility to protect the environment and ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion across its companies around the world.
We’re proud to be an armed forces-friendly place to work and welcome applications from reservists, armed forces veterans (including the wounded, injured and sick), as well as cadet instructors, and military spouses and partners.
If you want to continue to help make our world a safer and healthier place, then apply for the role below and become a part of the extraordinary Eurofins network
Job Description
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Hours: 36.5 hours per week, 08:00 - 16:30.
Purpose of the post:
This is an exciting opportunity based at our client’s facility, a world class Pharmaceutical company based in Macclesfield. We have an opportunity for experienced Analytical Scientists with at experience of drug substance development in the pharmaceutical industry.
- Provide crystallization support for the development and delivery of intermediates and API particle processes internally & externally.
- Contribute to projects focusing on sustainable process development and manufacture of drug substances and provide the link to drug product
- Have the ability to work collaboratively with colleagues in Drug Product Development in multi- functional teams to define desired particle properties for formulations, manufacturability and bioavailability.
- Generating, reporting and interpreting high quality data with clear impact to development projects.
- Ability to present information and engage in discussions in multi-disciplinary project teams.
- Effective communication and influencing skills.
- Continuously develop yourself and your colleagues via training and shared learning experiences to improve our efficiency and effectiveness
- Ensuring own work is performed and recorded in accordance with appropriate Safety, Health & Environment (SHE), quality and compliance standards, e.g. Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP)
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Experience
- Experience in a range of particle/materials characterisation techniques.
- Proficiency with inline Process Analytical Technology (PAT).
Qualifications
- Degree, Master degree or PhD level with experience post degree in an appropriate discipline such as Chemistry, Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences or similar discipline.
- Good knowledge of Optical and electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray powder diffraction (XRPD), Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) is required.
- Understanding in API physical attributes and their impact on formulation.
- Experience with process crystallisation development, polymorphism and solid-form control, nucleation and crystal growth mechanism as well as scale-up of crystallisation processes.
- Experience of Scale-up from laboratory to pilot plant and commercial manufacture is desirable.
- Process robustness studies and understanding using Design of Experiments (DoE) is desirable.
- Ability to quickly learn new processes.
- Ability to work using fully electronic media, including MS Office.
- Ability to communicate clearly and to form strong working relationships with both internal colleagues and external partners.
- Ability to work on own initiative and be capable of developing solutions to problems as part of a team.
- Willing to operate in a flexible manner and be able to switch priorities at short notice.
- Good team player, organised, accurate, have strong documentation skills.
- Passionate about quality and customer service.
- Enjoys the challenges of working in a fast paced and changing environment.
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What Happens Next
Our people are the backbone of what we do, so it's incredibly important we find the right individuals to join us. As a potential new recruit you'll be invited to meet the team in the form of an assessment centre or a staged interview process dependent on the role and it's requirements, this will give you the opportunity to see what working for Eurofins is really like and enable us to get you know your key skills and strengths.
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As part of any recruitment process, the company collects and processes personal data relating to job applicants. The company is committed to being transparent about how it collects and uses that data and to meeting its data protection obligations.
Closing Date
We reserve the right to close or extend this position depending on application numbers. Therefore we would urge candidates to submit an application as early as possible.
Due to the high volume of applications we receive please be aware that if you do not receive a response within 4 weeks of the vacancy expiry date unfortunately, on this occasion your application has been unsuccessful.
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