Job Title: Engineer
Location: North Chicago IL 60064
Duration: 12 Months
What are the top 3-5 skills, experience or education required for this position?
- Chemical engineering background
- Protein characterization (SDS-PAGE, immune-assay, etc.)
- Biomolecule precipitation/crystallization
What is a nice to have (but not required) skill, experience, education, or certification?
- Biologics downstream operations experience
- Fermentation process development
- Agitated vacuum drying experience
In what type of environment would this individual be working (i.e.: Team; Individual; type of office, etc.) - Mostly lab environment within a project team. Individual would be assigned an office space and lab space for work.
Daily Work Schedule Expectations - Core schedule hours are 9-4, but willing to be flexible.
Is overtime offered or required? Not required, and not offered.
Job Description
Chemical engineers support API and natural products projects through all phases of late-stage development, commercialization, and product life cycle. This position is responsible for ensuring that processes can be run safely, addressing scale-up issues and developing and implementing robust API process steps from the lab to a manufacturing environment. The engineer is responsible for late-stage process development, assessing key unit operations (e.g., reactions, centrifugations, filtrations) for process robustness, scientific understanding, and potential scale-up risks. Effective cross-functional interactions with other functions (e.g., technical, quality, regulatory) and on-site manufacturing personnel are key for successful job performance.
Purpose:
Develop scalable and robust engineering processes for natural API products. Investigate, identify, develop, and optimize new methods and techniques to generate reliable and reproducible data in a timely manner. Read and adapt scientific literature to accomplish assignments and demonstrate broad and versatile technical expertise within discipline.
Responsibilities:
• Leverage core chemical engineering principles (chemical kinetics, transport phenomena, thermodynamics, mathematical modeling) in experimental design, thought process in problem-solving, and data analysis.
• Routinely demonstrate scientific initiative and creativity in research or development activities.
• Exhibit productive performance in laboratory experimentation, pilot plant, and/or manufacturing support space, with direction from or interaction with supervisor.
• Formulate conclusions and design follow-on experiments based on multidisciplinary data.
• Pursue areas of investigation that are scientifically impactful to development and pipeline programs.
• Author publications, presentations, technical reports, regulatory documents, and/or patents.
• Demonstrate high proficiency across a wide range of relevant technologies.
• Independently design and conduct critical experiments that further project goals.
• Understand relevant scientific literature and apply theoretical framework to solving problems within scientific discipline in a timely manner.
• Understand and adhere to corporate standards regarding code of conduct, safety, appropriate handling of materials, controlled drug and radioactive compounds, GxP compliance, and animal care where applicable.
Qualifications
• BS or MS in chemical engineering or a related field and 2+ (BS) or 0+ (MS) years of relevant industrial experience.
• Possesses strong written and oral communication skills.
• Possesses theoretical and practical knowledge of own scientific discipline.
• Experience with biomolecule recovery processing (e.g. tangential flow filtration, protein fractionation by solubility, viral reduction) is desired.
• Experience with biomolecular characterization (e.g. SDS-PAGE, enzyme bioassay, immunoassay) is desired.
Key Leadership Competencies:
• Builds strong relationships with peers and cross-functionally with partners outside of team to enable higher performance.
• Learns fast, understands key objectives, and can change course quickly where indicated.
• Raises the bar and is never satisfied with the status quo.
• Creates a learning environment, open to suggestions and experimentation for improvement.
• Embraces the ideas of others, nurtures innovation, and manages the transition from innovation to implementation.
