Designation: Process Chemist

Job Location: Bangalore

Department: Chemical Development & API supply (CDAS), BBRC

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

Job Purpose:

Looking for an organic chemist (master’s) who will be able to address synthetic challenges and support scale- up activities in the process research and development group.

Key Responsibilities:

The candidate should be willing to work in the lab as an individual contributor with responsibilities towards development of safe and robust chemical processes for the preparation of intermediates/API in support of drug development activities.

Development work includes:

1. Basic literature search.
2. Carry out multiple reactions at bench to support R&D activities
3. Should be aware of/adhere to all safety protocols during R&D/scale-up activities.
4. Candidate should communicate effectively with his own team members, project lead.
5. Documenting development of all lab activities in ELN in timely fashion.

Educational Qualification: Master’s in organic chemistry from reputed institute/university.

Technical/functional Skills:

Essential:

1. Good understanding of organic chemistry fundamentals.
2. Strong academic track record preferred.
3. Coordination with multi-disciplinary teams of process R and D, pilot plant, process safety, etc

Preferable:

1. Previous experience in Pharmaceutical Process R&D.
2. Basic understanding of analytical data generated from NMR, HPLC, GC etc.

Experience: Foundational

Behavioral Skills:

Team player; Collaboration; Commitment; Extensive reading and presentation skills.

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 with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable legislation or local law. In addition, Syngene will provide reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities.