About this role
At Parexel, we share the goal to improve the world's health through clinical development solutions underpinned by deep conviction. We seek a Principal Scientist as a full-time FSP employee onsite at our client in Rahway, NJ. This laboratory-based role offers full benefits, sick time, 401K, paid holidays, and paid time off; no sponsorship available.
The Chemical Engineering R&D department needs a motivated chemist to develop and optimize chemical process steps using unit operations like reactions, extractions, distillations, crystallizations, filtrations, and drying. Work spans scales from grams to multi-kilogram to understand scale-up issues and improve robustness, quality, safety, yield, and environmental footprint. Troubleshoot, optimize, and deliver intermediates or APIs as part of project teams advancing new APIs through the R&D pipeline.
Daily work involves hands-on lab execution with various chemicals, manual and automated reactors, equipment, and process/analytical instruments in a fast-paced environment. Desk tasks include planning, analysis, documentation of experiments, and writing clear concise reports. Adhere to safety and Good Laboratory Practices while working accurately with minimal supervision.
This role provides fast-paced, hands-on research demanding high technical skills and contributions toward chemical processes in specialty chemical and pharmaceutical industries. Contribute personally with empathy to therapies benefiting patients. Join teams combining multiple chemical steps from early through late-stage development.
Requirements
- PhD in Chemistry or closely related field (Biochemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Research Sciences, Material Sciences, etc.); or MS degree with 3+ years professional experience in pharma/biopharma (Principal Scientist I)
- PhD with 1-3 years experience in pharma/biopharma (including post doc), or MS with 5+ years professional experience (Principal Scientist II)
- Demonstrated experience with chemical process development, scale-up, and unit operations including reactions, extractions, distillations, crystallizations, filtrations, and drying
- Strong laboratory skills to safely handle chemicals, execute experiments, generate/analyze/document data per safety and GLP
- Knowledge of chemistry theory and practice, including process robustness, quality, yield, and environmental considerations
- Ability to work accurately and safely in fast-paced, regulated laboratory with minimal supervision
- Proficiency with computers and software tools (e.g., MS Office, data analysis tools)
Responsibilities
- Develop and optimize chemical process steps combining unit operations including reactions, extractions, distillations, crystallizations, filtrations, drying
- Support chemical process development at scales from grams to multi-kilogram scale
- Understand scale-up issues and improve process robustness, quality, safety, environmental footprint and yield
- Troubleshoot issues, optimize processes, and deliver process intermediates and/or APIs
- Work in the lab with a variety of chemicals using manual and automated laboratory reactors/equipment and process/analytical instruments
- Plan, analyze, and document laboratory experiments
- Write clear and concise reports
Benefits
- Full benefits
- Sick time
- 401K
- Paid holidays
- Paid time off
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