Analytical Development Chemist

Analytical Development Chemist

Location: Haverhill Salary: circa £40,000 per annum Job Type: Full-time Hours: 9:00am – 5:30pm, 36 hours per week Industry: Scientific

PureKat Consultancy is recruiting for an experienced Analytical Development Chemist to join the R&D team for our client based in Haverhill.

Your duties as an Analytical Development Chemist will include:

• Developing, optimising and pre-validating analytical methods for APIs, polymers, drug product formulations, particularly amorphous solid dispersions, intermediates and raw materials

• Primarily using HPLC, UHPLC and GC, including hyphenated techniques such as LC-MS and GC-MS

• Supporting the development of analytical methods

• Supporting analytical method transfers and troubleshooting activities

• Investigating analytical issues

• Generating high-quality technical documentation

• Collaborating with R&D, Quality and Manufacturing teams to ensure the seamless integration of analytical methods

• Maintaining compliance with current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP), ICH guidelines and internal quality systems.

• Working with a range of analytical techniques.

The ideal candidate will have:

• A BSc, MSc or PhD in Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Sciences or a related discipline, or extensive relevant industrial experience.

• Proven experience in analytical method development, ideally gained within a pharmaceutical, contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO) or similarly regulated environment.

• Strong hands-on experience with HPLC, UHPLC and/or GC instrumentation and associated software.

• Familiarity with regulatory expectations relating to analytical methods used for API release testing.

• Experience with analytical method development, optimisation and troubleshooting.

• Good technical report writing and documentation skills.

• Knowledge and understanding of cGMP and ICH guidelines would be highly desirable.

• Strong analytical and scientific problem-solving skills.

Ideally you will have experience within a similar position. Interviews will take place in Haverhill, Suffolk, following a registration process by PureKat Consultancy Ltd. If we have not responded to your application within 3-5 days, unfortunately you have not been successful on this occasion, but please feel free to contact us for other opportunities. PureKat Consultancy is acting as an Employment Agency for this permanent vacancies and as an Employment business for temporary vacancies