
Process R&D Chemist
- Cork
- Permanent
- Full-time
- An attractive and competitive package of pay and conditions.
- Excellent opportunities for career enhancement and development.
- A well-establishedfurther education programme.
- Opportunity to travel to other Pfizer sites and locations.
- A strong personal development programme.
- Apply synthetic chemistry and mechanistic expertise to support commercial API processes at relevant API sites.
- Apply highly specialised synthetic chemistry theoretical and process development skills to design and maintain safe, efficient, and robust processes including full-scale qualification and/or commercial validation batches meeting contemporary regulatory standards.
- Contribute a range of highly innovative chemistry and process development ideas to support global process development projects.
- Demonstrate problem solving delivering chemistry and process understanding.
- Investigate new technologies and process development approaches to bring added value to Pfizer Global Supply.
- Complete reports, memos and eLN experiments to a high standard and meeting required deadlines.
- Contribute to the PDC chemistry team program of continuous improvement.
- Ensure the ongoing safe and efficient operation of PDC facilities.
- A minimum of a PhD in synthetic chemistry.
- Experience in the pharmaceutical industry within a process development role is desirable but not required.
- Extensive knowledge and experience of synthetic chemistry and reaction mechanisms including the ability to apply knowledge to solve problems.
- Knowledge of contemporary quality and regulatory guidance pertaining to the control of impurities, including potentially genotoxic impurities is desirable.
- Knowledge of process development and scale-up principles, process validation and technical transfers.
- Excellent practical synthetic laboratory experience and skills across a broad range of chemistries.
- Background in impurity isolation and identification to support the development and troubleshooting of chemical processes.
- A proven ability to plan and work independently.
- The ability to determine and pursue courses of action necessary to obtain desired results; develops advanced ideas and guides their development into a final product.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Positive interpersonal skills and the ability to work in a dynamic, matrix team driven environment.