Consulting LC-MS Development Scientist
Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT), the world's leading specialty measurement company, has pioneered chromatography, mass spectrometry and thermal analysis innovations serving the life, materials, and food sciences for over 60 years. With approximately 8,000 employees worldwide, Waters operates directly in 35 countries, including 15 manufacturing facilities, with products available in more than 100 countries. Our team focuses on creating business advantages for laboratory-dependent organizations to enable significant advancement in healthcare delivery, environmental management, food safety, and water quality.
Working at Waters and TA Instruments enables our employees to unlock the potential of their careers. Our global team is driven by purpose. We strive to be better, learn and improve every day in everything we do. We’re the problem solvers and innovators that aren’t afraid to take risks to transform the world of human health and well-being. We’re all in it together delivering benefit as one to provide the insights needed today in order to solve the challenges of tomorrow.
Consulting LC-MS Development Scientist
Overview
Clinical Systems Development is a growing team being created to develop Waters Clinical and IVD Systems, Hardware and Software. This is a great opportunity to get involved at the outset of a new organisation, with a mission to better meet the unique challenges of our Clinical customers and accelerate the growth of this segment of Waters business. This is a key development scientist role within a new hardware and software development for Waters Clinical customers.
Responsibilities
- Play a key role in the development of Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS) Systems for the Waters Clinical Business Unit.
- Contribute to the innovation and creation of new separations and/or mass measurement concepts for the creation of LC/MS clinical systems and analysers which are ground-breaking, transformative and disruptive rather than incremental.
- Undertake research & development activities for Clinical LC/MS Systems and technologies and advise on design of experiments. Undertake sustaining activities for Clinical LC/MS Systems. Engage in collaborations with the wider Waters R&D organisation and with customers on Separations/Mass Spectrometry Research and Development projects.
- Act as a Subject Matter Expert for senior management of the Clinical BU on separations-based and/or mass spectrometry-based technology and products. Be aware of developments in the technical community and competitor’s products to identify potential development opportunities or strategic technical threats.
- Present research findings externally at international conferences and internally to senior management.
- Work with both Waters and Clinical BU (Engineering and Service organisations) to implement improvements to Clinical Systems products to improve their quality, robustness, reliability and up-time.
- Provide integration skills to drive the development and subsequent transfer of new technologies (including their requirements and specifications) into commercial instrumentation.
- Produce Product Specification and Engineering Requirements documentation and provide design direction to the engineering development teams as required.
Qualifications
- A first degree in Physics, Chemistry or a related subject.
- Preferably a further degree (PhD) in a Physics, Chemistry or a related subject; or extensive relevant experience.
