Crystallisation Scientist – API Process Development

Cambrex Corporation; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 66,000; Full time

Job summary

Cambrex Corporation in Edinburgh is seeking a Crystallisation Scientist to join our API process development team. You will contribute to crystallisation projects from gram-scale trials to multi-gram and kilogram scales, supporting technology transfer to manufacturing, while maintaining quality and safety standards.

You will work with CLS reactors, PAT tools, and a broad range of analytical techniques, collaborating with clients and internal teams in a fast-paced, rewarding environment.

Qualifications

• Team player with excellent communication.

Responsibilities

• The Crystallisation Scientist will organise and perform crystallisation process development projects, including characterization of samples from clients.
• Demonstrate competence in crystallisation science at gram to kg scale, and in cooling and anti-solvent crystallisation pathways.
• Use controlled lab reactors with heater/chiller units and overhead stirrers to optimise purities, yields and particle size distributions.
• Apply PAT technologies (e.g., Blaze, FBRM, Raman) to characterise systems and support technology transfer.
• Work with XRPD, TG/DTA, DSC and related techniques along with spectroscopic and wet chemistry methods.

Skills

Communication skills

Willingness to learn

Problem solving

Organization and workload management

Commercial awareness

Pharma API development knowledge

Education

BSc (Hons) / MSc in chemistry or chemical engineering

Job description

Cambrex Corporation in Edinburgh is seeking a Crystallisation Scientist to join our API process development team. You will contribute to crystallisation projects from gram-scale trials to multi-gram and kilogram scales, supporting technology transfer to manufacturing, while maintaining quality and safety standards.

You will work with CLS reactors, PAT tools, and a broad range of analytical techniques, collaborating with clients and internal teams in a fast-paced, rewarding environment.