Scientist

Randstad Enterprise; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,600,000; Full time

Job summary

Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Domain is seeking a seasoned professional to lead process R&D, scale-up, and pilot plant activities in a full-time role. You will contribute to product planning, scheduling, and process improvements while handling 1–50 L scale reactions and ensuring quality through analytical characterizations.

The ideal candidate has 5–10 years of pharma CRO or specialty chemical experience, hands-on purification and tech transfer to pilot plants, and familiarity with GMP/ISO QA

Qualifications

• 5–10 years experience in pharma CRO or specialty chemical industry.
• Experience in process R&D, scale-up, pilot plant, kilo lab and small-scale CatLog production.
• Handling 1 L to 50 L scale reactions with workup, purification and characterization (NMR, IR, GC, HPLC, MP, elemental analysis).
• Experience with pyrophoric & moisture sensitive reactions at 20 L scale.
• Ability to manage independent reactions in shifts.
• Knowledge of organic synthesis, reaction mechanisms, asymmetric synthesis, catalysis, ligand chemistry.
• Purification techniques include high vacuum distillation, recrystallization, column chromatography.
• Process development & scale-up to pilot plant; knowledge of tech transfer to pilot plant.
• GDP knowledge and QA audits (GMP, ISO).
• SAP knowledge advantageous; basic Word/Excel skills.

Responsibilities

• Process R&D, Custom synthesis, Scale Up & Pilot plant.
• Product planning and Scheduling.
• Process Improvements and trouble Shooting expertise.
• Organic Chemical synthesis.

Skills

Process R&D

Scale-up

Pilot plant ops

Product planning

Troubleshooting

Organic synthesis

Analytical techniques

Pyrophoric handling

Kilo lab

Tech transfer

Lean Six Sigma

QA audits GMP ISO

SAP

MS Office

Job description

Employer: Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Domain

Employment Type: Full Time (Direct Payroll)

Your Role:

• Process R&D, Custom synthesis, Scale Up & Pilot plant.
• Product planning and Scheduling.
• Process Improvements and trouble Shooting expertise.
• Organic Chemical synthesis

Who you are:

Mandate:

• Having 5-10yr experience in pharma CRO, specialty chemical industry.
• Mandatory experience of working in process R&D, scale up, pilot plant, Kilo lab, small scale CatLog production.
• Experience in handling 1litre to 50litre scale reaction, workup, purification and characterization of the products using analytical techniques (eg. NMR, IR, GC, HPLC, MP, elemental analysis)
• Should have handled pyrophoric & moisture sensitive reactions and reagents at 20L scale.
• Handling independent reactions in shifts.
• Knowledge of organic chemistry synthesis, reaction mechanism, asymmetric synthesis, catalysis, ligand chemistry etc.
• Expert in purification techniques like high vacuum distillation, recrystallization, column chromatography etc.
• Expert in process development and scale-up up to pilot plant. Should have knowledge of tech transfer of process to pilot plant.
• Knowledge of Lean-six sigma will be an added advantage.
• Should know GDP and have faced QA audits (GMP, ISO etc).
• Knowledge of SAP will be an added advantage.
• Should have basic knowledge of Word, Excel etc.