What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Scientist - Production Support position at Veranova L P?
Job Description
Job Description
Company Description
Veranova is a global leader in the development and manufacturing of complex active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) for pharma and biotech customers. With deep technical expertise and impressive flexibility, we develop solutions and processes that support and accelerate innovation.
Job Description
The Senior Scientist (Production Support) is responsible for conducting production investigations including small to large scale chemical reactions to support the manufacturing of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) as a project technical lead to deliver projects on target for quantity, quality, timeline, and budget. This is a key scientific position in production with responsibility for oversight of manufacturing activities from a technical chemistry perspective.
Key Responsibilities / Accountabilities
- Leads the delivery of experimental outputs from yourself, ensuring a high degree of scientific integrity and meeting deadlines with high quality. Work flexibly and reactively to adapt to the needs of project demands.
- Exhibits safety awareness by conducting lab and other operations in a safe manner, holding themselves accountable for safe behavior in the work environment, and acting as a role model.
- Applies knowledge and expertise from multi-disciplines to achieve project goals.
- Leads projects and technical areas, acting as a mentor to other staff members. May supervise staff in lab-based activities and project work.
- Expertly shares knowledge, skills, and experience internally and externally, leads focused projects as key contact.
- Ensures key personnel are identified as successors in technical areas to ensure knowledge is retained in-house.
- Keeps accurate, legible, and complete records of all experiments, observations, and equipment.
- Writes high quality reports and delivers presentations to customers and management with some guidance in a timely manner that aligns with project milestones.
- Contributes to sustaining good customer relations and identifies new commercial opportunities.
- Actively contributes to the technical development of the department and company, working independently to drive progress in this area.
- Consistently contributes to the production and review of high quality project outputs.
- Ensures work complies with all state and federal regulations, including, GMP, DEA, FDA, etc.
- Accomplishes other duties as fitting to the employee’s skills and abilities per reasonable request.
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Physical Demands and Work Environment
Additional Information
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Veranova is an Equal Opportunity Employer. It is the policy of Veranova to provide equal employment access and opportunity to all persons regardless of age, race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and / or expression, physical or mental disability, genetic information, citizenship, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.
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