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St. Louis (MO)
St. Louis (MO), USA
Merck
Merck
Full-time
Full-time
Gas chromatography, Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, Molecular spectroscopy UV-Vis, RAMAN, FTIR, Spectroscopy, Liquid chromatography, Liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry, Scientific and Research Fellow, NMR
Gas chromatography, Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, Molecular spectroscopy UV-Vis, RAMAN, FTIR, Spectroscopy, Liquid chromatography, Liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry, Scientific and Research Fellow, NMR

Senior Production Scientist

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Merck - Career

Our passion for science and technology is what drives our more than 64,000 employees across 66 countries to find solutions to some of today’s toughest challenges and create more sustainable ways to live.

Work Your Magic with us! Start your next chapter and join MilliporeSigma.

Ready to explore, break barriers, and discover more? We know you’ve got big plans – so do we! Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people’s lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix of people, customers, patients, and planet. That's why we are always looking for curious minds that see themselves imagining the unimaginable with us.

This role does not offer sponsorship for work authorization. External applicants must be eligible to work in the US.

Senior Production Scientist

Your Role:

The Senior Production Scientist at MilliporeSigma will work in a project-focused environment as a member of a multidisciplinary Process Development (PD) group responsible for development and qualification of manufacturing methods to support new product introduction and optimization of existing processes. Job duties include: 

  • Design and perform laboratory experiments and evaluate data to ultimately develop reliable manufacturing and/or QC methods.
  • Regularly communicate project status to the PD, project management and Operations teams
  • Perform and troubleshoot initial processing of newly developed and/or scaled up procedures with the Operations teams to qualify new methods.
  • Aid in training and transfer of newly developed methods to the receiving Operations team to ensure long term success.
  • Write clear instruction in operating procedures for Operations’ use in ongoing future manufacturing.
  • Apply Root Cause Analysis tools to address manufacturing issues.
  • Design and develop new products focused on providing solutions for customers in the life science field.
  • Develop manufacturing processes that include synthesis, isolation, purification, and characterization of organic molecules.
  • Characterization may include the following analytical techniques: NMR, HPLC, GC, MS, TLC, IR, UV-VIS spectroscopy.

Who You Are

 Minimum Qualifications
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Organic Chemistry, Engineering, Biochemistry and other scientific fields
  • 5+ years of academic and work experience with synthesis, isolation, purification, and characterization of organic molecules
  • 1+ years of experience in HPLC operation and troubleshooting
 Preferred Qualifications
  • PhD. in Organic Chemistry, Engineering, Biochemistry, and other scientific fields
  • Experience in independent lab research or chemical manufacturing
  • Background using AKTA purification systems and Unicorn software
  • Experience applying the following chromatography techniques: ion exchange, reverse phase, size exclusion, and normal phase
  • Knowledge producing small molecules via bio catalysis
  • Manufacturing experience above bench scale
  • Competent with protein purification and/or isolation of small molecules by natural extraction
  • Experience maintaining LC/MS instrumentation
  • Biochemistry or molecular biology experience
  • CR experience
  • Conjugation experience

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