Assistant Team Leader, Synthetic Chemistry & Lab Leadership

Chemify Ltd; Maryhill (WA); On-site; USD 60,000 - 87,000; Full time

Job summary

Chemify Ltd is seeking an experienced synthetic chemist stepping into team leadership as Assistant Team Leader for the ChemSearch and ChemDev teams, based at our Glasgow site.

You will support daily team operations while continuing to run your own synthesis projects, designing experiments, executing reactions, and interpreting results. This role offers growth toward full leadership and closer involvement in planning team work.

Qualifications

• PhD in synthetic organic chemistry or equivalent with several years in industry.
• Proven experience delivering synthesis projects independently from route selection to analysis.
• Strong organisational and multitasking abilities across multiple projects.
• Excellent communication with route managers, project managers and the team.
• Willingness to mentor others and lead when needed.
• Interest in automation approaches in chemistry.

Responsibilities

• Balance workload across chemists and allocate reactions to meet turnaround targets.
• Follow up on outstanding work orders to ensure on-time delivery.
• Lead day-to-day team activities when the Team Leader is unavailable.
• Design, execute and iterate synthesis procedures for own campaigns and projects.
• Interpret TLC, Flash LC, HPLC, and UPLC data to confirm outcomes.
• Mentor less experienced chemists and train on lab procedures.
• Document experiments and contribute to client reports.
• Suggest improvements to lab processes and help track team performance.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Organisational skills

Mentoring

Automation enthusiasm

Education

PhD in synthetic organic chemistry

Industrial synthetic chemistry laboratory experience

Tools

TLC

Flash LC

HPLC

UPLC

Job description

Chemify Ltd is seeking an experienced synthetic chemist stepping into team leadership as Assistant Team Leader for the ChemSearch and ChemDev teams, based at our Glasgow site.

You will support daily team operations while continuing to run your own synthesis projects, designing experiments, executing reactions, and interpreting results. This role offers growth toward full leadership and closer involvement in planning team work.