Process Chemist

Syngene International Limited; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Syngene International Limited in Bengaluru, India seeks a Scientist to perform lab experiments and support process development across lab-to-pilot scales, with a focus on reproducible results. You will generate data for robustness studies, maintain meticulous lab notebooks, and ensure safety, quality, and data integrity in all activities.

Experience of 1–6 years, hands-on in chemical lab environments, and familiarity with literature searches will help you contribute to method development and

Qualifications

• 1–6 years of relevant laboratory experience.
• Experience in lab-scale to pilot/scale-up processes.
• Knowledge of safety, EHSS, and data integrity practices.

Responsibilities

• Perform experiments to generate data for process robustness, plant simulation studies, and safety studies.
• Perform lab experiments minimum two in a working day.
• Record observations during lab experiments and transfer knowledge to the execution team.
• Synthesize reference standards, impurity markers, intermediates, and APIs for method development.
• Ensure 100% compliance in safety, quality, data integrity and trainings.
• Contribute to PRD guidelines and meet individual contributions.
• Observe batches during manufacturing and provide feedback to improve processes.
• Ensure flawless scale-up execution with safety, quality, and data integrity.
• Perform literature searches using SciFinder, Reaxys, etc.

Job description

At Syngene, Safety is at the heart of everything we do personally and professionally. Syngene has placed safety at par with business performance with shared responsibility and accountability, including following safety guidelines, procedures, and sops, in letter and spirit

Mandatory expectation for all roles as per Syngene safety guidelines

• Overall adherence to safe practices and procedures of oneself and the teams aligned
• Contributing to development of procedures, practices and systems that ensures safe operations and compliance to company’s integrity & quality standards
• Driving a corporate culture that promotes environment, health, and safety (EHS) mindset and operational discipline at the workplace at all times.
• Ensuring safety of self, teams, and lab/plant by adhering to safety protocols and following environment, health, and safety (EHS) requirements at all times in the workplace.
• Ensure all assigned mandatory trainings related to data integrity,health, and safety measures are completed on time by all members of the team including self
• Compliance to Syngene’s quality standards always
• Hold self and their teams accountable for the achievement of safety goals
• Govern and Review safety metrics from time to time

Responsibility Summary:

Performing activities at both lab and manufacturing facility to ensure the lab process safely transferred to pilot scale / commercial scale with reproducible results.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Perform experiments to generate data for process robustness, plant simulation studies, process safety studies, etc.
• Perform lab experiments minimum two in a working day at lab
• Record all minute observation while lab experimentations and transfer knowledge to execution team for flawless smooth execution.
• Synthesize reference standard, impurity markers, intermediates, and APIs to support method development in ADL and customers need from lab scale.
• Ensuring 100% compliance in safety, quality, data integrity and trainings.
• Ensure individual contribution is met as per the PRD guidelines
• Observe critically the batches while execution at manufacturing facility and provide valuable feedback to improve the process and avoid failure.
• Ensure flawless execution of scale up activities with 100% compliance on safety, quality and data integrity.
• Contribute individually (or as a team when appropriate) by performing experiments in lab and update laboratory notebook contemporaneously.
• Track impurities and highlight differences with logical reasons in a given study group.
• Perform literature search using tools such as Scifinder, Reaxys etc.

Experience: 1 - 6 years

Safety and Integrity

• Set and maintain high safety standards in the work environment.
• Adherence to all Environment, Health, Safety and Sustainability (EHSS) requirements always in the workplace with 100% compliance
• Ensure there are no Safety and environmental non-compliances in all areas that you are working in
• Reporting minimum of 1 near miss/observation per year. Ensure communication of incidents (or near-misses) and learning from those to ensure such an incident is not repeated/does not happen
• Ensure all the respective Kavach standards applicable to you are being meticulously followed
• Responsible for safety of self by ensuring all necessary safety protocols are adhered to
• Ensure all assigned mandatory LMS, classroom and on-the-job training related to Safety/EHSS are completed on time with 100% compliance
• Ensure all assigned mandatory LMS, classroom and on-the-job training related to Data Integrity are completed on time with 100% compliance

Equal Opportunity Employer:

• It is the policy of Syngene to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status about public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable legislation or local law. In addition, Syngene will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.