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Co.Dublin\nABOUT US?\nSK pharmteco is a global Contract Development and Manufacturing organisation (CDMO) with state-of-the-art facilities in Korea, US, France and Ireland. We are part of SK Inc., a Korean company with revenues of $99 billion in 2023. Our mission is to ‘produce and deliver life-changing therapies that improve patient outcomes and save lives’. The SK pharmteco Small Molecule, Europe, facility located in Swords, Co Dublin, Ireland has led the way in the development, scale-up and commercial manufacture of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) and Chemical Intermediates for over 60 years. With a talented workforce, exceptional technical capabilities and facilities we have made some of the world’s most important medicines and continue to do so.\nFurther information on SK pharmteco can be found at www.skpharmteco.com\nCurrent Need:\nA vacancy now exists for a PhD Chemist within the R&D group. This position is based at the R&D Centre in Swords, Co Dublin. The R&D Centre has co-located technical and operational expertise, including analytical expertise that supports the development and manufacture of clinical and commercial products (small molecule APIs). The R&D Chemist will have experience in synthetic organic chemistry. They will be responsible for providing support for all aspects of new and existing chemical processes development, technology transfer, process scale-up, process safety, process monitoring, and process troubleshooting for small molecules. The role will involve cross functional collaboration with other functions including Operations, Quality, EHS and external stakeholders working towards existing and new product introduction and ensuring all processes are understood, robust, efficient and in control.\nEssential Responsibilities:\nLead development projects in the laboratory, including route scouting and route development, proof of concept, crystallisation optimisation, and process safety assessment.\nProvide technical support to the manufacture of APIs and intermediates manufactured at SK biotek Ireland, with a focus on optimisation and investigation support.\nIdentify and implement projects to optimise processes, considering scale-up and manufacturing aspects and Critical to Quality Attributes.\nLeverage data monitoring and PAT tools in the laboratory such as FBRM, Raman, IR, as required. Identify and implement new technologies to support development for the business needs of the site.\nCoordinate tech transfer activities for introduction of new clinical and commercial products to the site, including process development in the laboratory, customer engagement, troubleshooting, documentation, and campaign readiness.\nSupport chemistry assessments for new products as required.\nLead optimisation projects on throughput and yield in collaboration with Operations engineers.\nSupport continuous process verification through collection and trending of data for commercial products, identifying Out of Trends (OOT) and Statistical Alert Events (SAE) and leading investigations where required with support from R&D engineers and analytical chemists.\nActively participate in manufacturing campaign performance support teams.\nLead and support quality and safety investigations.\nCollaborate with R&D analytical chemists and Operations engineers on new products introduction and scale up 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