Senior Process Chemist — Lead Scale-Up & Innovation

FMC Corporation; Schaffhausen; Sur place; CHF 180 000 - 240 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

FMC Agricultural Solutions in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, seeks a Senior Process Chemist to lead process innovations from NPI through commercial lifecycle. You will drive scale-up, optimize manufacturing, and support technology transfer while ensuring safety, sustainability, and cost competitiveness.

The role involves guiding lab teams, collaborating with R&D, Manufacturing, and Quality, and contributing to IP protection within FMC’s global operations. Fluency in English is required.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in chemistry (PhD preferred).
• 10+ years of industrial process chemistry experience.
• Strong knowledge of organic, physical-organic, and process chemistry with hands-on lab experience.
• Experience supporting technology transfer, NPI, and commercial manufacturing.
• Fluent in written and spoken English.

Responsabilités

• Lead process innovation, optimization, and scale-up initiatives to improve capacity, yield, safety, robustness, sustainability, quality and cost.
• Provide technical leadership during pilot campaigns, commissioning, start-up, validation, and manufacturing for new production introduction.
• Support IP protection by developing deep process understanding and differentiated manufacturing approaches.
• Collaborate with R&D, Manufacturing, Engineering, Quality, Regulatory, and EHS teams to ensure successful product commercialization.
• Establish and maintain critical process knowledge, standards, and best practices across FMC’s manufacturing network.
• Mentor and develop colleagues, promoting technical excellence and knowledge sharing.

Connaissances

Process chemistry

Scale-up

Tech transfer

NPI

Project leadership

Formation

Master's degree in chemistry

PhD in organic/ mechanistic or process chemistry

Description du poste

FMC Agricultural Solutions in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, seeks a Senior Process Chemist to lead process innovations from NPI through commercial lifecycle. You will drive scale-up, optimize manufacturing, and support technology transfer while ensuring safety, sustainability, and cost competitiveness.

The role involves guiding lab teams, collaborating with R&D, Manufacturing, and Quality, and contributing to IP protection within FMC’s global operations. Fluency in English is required.