PhD Chemist: API Process Development & Tech Transfer

SK pharmteco Inc.; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

An excellent opportunity for careerenh

Competitive base salary.

Annual bonus linked to businessresults

A well-established further education程序

Pension scheme.

Private healthcare.

Job summary

SK pharmteco, part of SK Inc., seeks a PhD Chemist for the R&D Centre in Swords, Co Dublin. The role focuses on development, transfer, scale-up and troubleshooting for small molecule APIs, with emphasis on synthetic organic chemistry.

You will lead lab projects, collaborate across Operations, Quality and EHS, and apply PAT tools to optimise processes, improve yields and ensure process understanding and control.

Qualifications

• PhD in organic chemistry.
• 2+ years of pharmaceutical industry experience.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to work across a matrix organization.
• Excellent problem solving and continuous improvement mindset.
• Experience with root cause analysis & standard statistical tools.
• Familiarity with GMP, Quality, Health & Safety considerations.

Responsibilities

• Lead development projects in the laboratory, including route scouting and route development, proof of concept, crystallisation optimisation, and process safety assessment.
• Provide technical support to the manufacture of APIs and intermediates with a focus on optimisation and investigation support.
• Identify and implement projects to optimise processes, considering scale-up and manufacturing aspects and Critical to Quality Attributes.
• Leverage data monitoring and PAT tools in the laboratory such as FBRM, Raman, IR, as required.
• Coordinate tech transfer activities for introduction of new clinical and commercial products to the site, including process development in the laboratory, customer engagement, troubleshooting, documentation, and campaign readiness.
• Support chemistry assessments for new products as required.
• Lead optimisation projects on throughput and yield in collaboration with Operations engineers.
• Support continuous process verification through collection and trending of data for commercial products, identifying Out of Trends (OOT) and Statistical Alert Events (SAE) and leading investigations where required with support from R&D engineers and analytical chemists.
• Actively participate in manufacturing campaign performance support teams.
• Lead and support quality and safety investigations.
• Collaborate with R&D analytical chemists and Operations engineers on new products introduction and scale up activities

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Problem solving

Root cause analysis

Communication

Analytical techniques

Education

PhD in Organic Chemistry

Tools

PAT

Chromatography

Process safety

Job description

SK pharmteco, part of SK Inc., seeks a PhD Chemist for the R&D Centre in Swords, Co Dublin. The role focuses on development, transfer, scale-up and troubleshooting for small molecule APIs, with emphasis on synthetic organic chemistry.

You will lead lab projects, collaborate across Operations, Quality and EHS, and apply PAT tools to optimise processes, improve yields and ensure process understanding and control.