Merck Group - Senior Scientist

Your role:

- We are looking for individuals with a strong passion for synthetic organic chemistry, mainly in area of stable isotope chemistry and technologies.

- Good knowledge and experience on design, construct, and operate a stable isotope labelled compounds e.g. Deuterium, C-13, O-18, N-15 and other relevant nuclei's.

- Experience with bench scale prototyping for scale up, low loss chemistry of high value materials, isotope enrichment science and engineering.

- He/she will provide support to the group to strategically advance S&T supporting the chemistry needs of various stable isotope enrichment processes and technologies from lab scale development, small scale synthesis to scaleup, pilot plant and manufacturing.

- The successful candidate is expected to advance the R&D of ultralow loss chemical conversion, isolation and extraction of enriched material, purification, characterization, physical properties, setting up the specification for isotope labelled material for high end applications.

- Good knowledge of literature search (reaxys/scifinder etc.), synthetic route design, working experience on PR&D, process innovation, DOE, QBD, execution of multistep synthetic chemistry including the ability to independently conduct the analysis and accurately interpret analytical data.

- The suitable candidate must have working experience developing new stable isotope chemistry technologies to enable commercialization of new high value products and services for new research areas and applications.

- The successful candidate must have proven track record of generating and deploying new research areas, mentoring early to mid-career scientists, ability to work across multiple disciplinary in a highly collaborative environment- Global and India.

Who you are:

- He/she must have experience in resolving technical complexity and interdisciplinary problems, the ability to work flexible hours and travel when required. He/she must demonstrate ability to function well in a fast-paced research environment, set priorities to accomplish multiple tasks within deadlines, and adapt to ever changing needs is highly desirable.

- He /she must have skilled in maintaining laboratory equipment, workplace and stocks supplies, verifies inventories, and orders fresh stocks as required. The ideal candidate must be a good team player and confers with senior counterparts before making significant changes to documented procedures.

- Organize product (material) testing as per required quality standards/specifications and ensures the quality of finished products is met and SAP confirmation as per SOP.

- Reviews inventory, raw material planning and ordering, schedules or demand and changes in priority of work as necessary.

- Maintains parameters as required in shift, writes and revises procedures (if required). Communicates results to supervisors/management and maintains all parameters as required in a shift and records all observations during shift.

- Candidate must have good interpersonal skill (communication & presentation) and he/she should be able to communicate results of lab work to external and internal customers, appropriately and timely.

- The ideal candidate should have M. Sc, Ph.D or post-doctoral experience in related fields with minimum of 10 years relevant experience. R&D experience in stable isotope chemistry innovation field is highly desirable.