MSAT Scientist

Job Title - MSAT Scientist

Location - Bangalore

Department - MSAT

About Syngene: 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

Job responsibilities: 

o Apply chemical engineering principles to innovate, design and develop processes in laboratory
o Analyze, review, and develop recommendations towards engineering data generated in the laboratory to support scaleup activities
o Develop robust upstream and downstream processes such as reaction optimization, crystallization, distillation, filtration, drying and evaporation to support manufacturing campaigns
o Develop advanced process intensification activities such as process feasibility evaluation, robustness testing, hypothesis testing etc.
o Provide technical support and overview of all ongoing process development projects and operations in the laboratory
o Introducing new technologies to the process research and development group including process engineering
o Design and execute process optimization activities using advanced statistical tools such as DoE (Design of experiments), QbD, FMEA etc.
o Utilize PAT tools (ReactIR, FBRM, PVM) for developing robust processes to support projects
o Provide investigations support into process abnormalities and troubleshooting of plant activities
o Apply process engineering principles to support scaleup of product campaigns at pilot and commercial scale
o Interact with customers, vendors, project leads, cross functional team in deploying scaleup plans across projects.
o Batch and equipment planning support based on strong chemical engineering and process knowledge
o Support execution of scaleup campaigns and providing directions to technology transfer and production teams
o Act as a subject matter expert in process scaleup

Experience

• PhD with 3 - 6 years

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 regarding 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