Brilliant opportunity to join an expanding company in South Wales as a Team leader. You'll need to be an experienced process chemist who either is looking to move into a team lead role or have previous experience in this area. You will need the ability to act as a line manager and mentor for scientists, with ability to give and receive coaching and performance feedback
Experience:
* A PhD in chemistry (or related subject) plus suitable industrial experience in process development of scalable processes
* Detailed understanding of organic synthesis and process development, including practical techniques
* Experience of technology transfer of chemical processes to a manufacturing environment
* Background knowledge and understanding of key aspects of API manufacture and CMC topics such as cGMP manufacturing and analytical requirements, ICH guidelines, regulatory approach, control strategy, in order to understand and support customer's requirements
* Excellent project management and communication skills, with the proven ability to organise technical development across a multi-strand project (e.g. process development of multiple steps in parallel) and/or on parallel projects
* Background understanding of materials sciences/solid state aspects of API development and manufacturing (for instance, salt selection, polymorphism, crystallisation)