Shift Chemist

An established pharmaceutical company requires a Shift Chemist to joints its manufacturing team. You will support the manufacture and process development of established and development products. This is a rotating shift-based role between days and nights.To be considered you must have previous experience in an industrial chemistry environment, ideally within pharmaceutical, or similar, manufacturing.

**Key responsibilities will include**:
Manufacture of established and development products:

- Responsible for batch manufacture of intermediate and final ligands and Chromatographic resins or other products as required.
- Adherence to Standard Operating Procedures (SOP's) and Production Methods.
- Upkeep of accurate production records and notebooks
- Conduct of certain on-line quality control assay
- Analysis of manufacturing data, early identification of anomalies and problems.
- Maintenance of manufacturing equipment and work areas in clean and serviceable state.
- To carry out other work in this area as and when directed by the Production Manager.
- Process Development and optimisation
- Responsible for conducting process optimization studies on new and existing processes (both intermediates and final products) to ensure optimum utilization of resources and maximization of yields.
- Responsible for participating in the decision-making processes within the process development and control

**Qualications, Skills and Experience**
- Minimum of 2 years' experience in an industrial chemistry environment.
- Previous experience of a highly regulated manufacturing environment such as pharmaceutical manufacture.
- Previous experience of process development chemistry.
- Computer literate
- Willing to work rotating 8 - 12 hour shifts, between days and nights.

**_£Competitive basic + Shift Allowance + Relocation Assistance_