Senior Research & Development Chemist

Immediate job opportunity for a Senior R&D Chemist!

Position Overview:
The Senior Research and Development Chemist has solid experience in Solid Phase Peptide Synthesis, with experience both in Boc and Fmoc chemistry. Should have hands on experience with manual SPPS under cGMP conditions. Willing to apply know-how in SPPS to the automation of peptide synthesis using the department Automated Large Scale Peptide Synthesizer. As a member of the Research and Development team, conducts or supervises developmental synthesis of new API, designs in coordination with the Director of Research new purification strategies and implements them. Basic knowledge of GMP procedure allows for design and execution of processes easily transferred to cGMP production. Attention to details, excellent procedure recording, and good communication skills facilitate the transfer of these processes to production.

Job Duties/Responsibilities:
-Supervise large scale manual SPPS of new R&D projects and/or cGMP early investigation process.
-Develop a process to use the automatic SPPS under GMP regulation.
-Design, conduct or supervise new R&D purification procedure.
-Contribute to the good organization of the common spaces of the R&D department.
-Contribute to the maintenance and troubleshooting of analytical HPLC and preparative HPLC.
-Evaluate performance of staff and train staff.

Additional Duties/Responsibilities:
-Write process description and transfer of developed strategies to production.
-Document analytical results for the benefit of production and other departments.
-Write analytical reports and summaries.Kelly Services is an Equal Opportunity EmployerContact?Information?:.625 The City Drive, Ste 475
Orange?CA?92868