Scientist 2

Overview

Waters Corporation is thrilled to offer an exciting Scientist 2 opportunity to join our R&D team within Cell and Gene Portfolio in Chemistry and Lab Automation Department.

In this role, you will play a key part in implementing project developing chromatography consumables to better characterize cell and gene therapy drugs and substances. The successful candidate will also contribute significantly to scale up chemical synthesis processes and transfer the processes to manufacturing.

Responsibilities

• Scale up chemical synthesis process.

• Work with senior investigators on research and development of new chromatography stationary phases.

• Stay up-to-date literature in your research area.

• Accurately detail research findings.

• Comply with environment, safety, health, and quality program requirements.

Qualifications

• MS with 1-3 years and BS with 3-5 years of work experience after graduation with a major in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering.

• Experience with chemical synthesis process scale up and transfer to manufacturing is required.

• Must be able to implement synthesis experiments independently following procedures with some supervision.

• Become comfortable with operating >10L reactors and heavy equipment (~20 lbs) on occasional cases.

• Candidate with a background in any of the following areas will be preferred: (1) organic/inorganic particle synthesis; (2) surface modification; (3) protein immobilization.

• Good documentation skills with attention to detail and confidentiality.

• Ability to work well in a group environment.

• Proficient in utilizing Microsoft software.

• Able to safely work in chemical synthesis lab. #LI-CB1

Company Description

Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT), the world's leading specialty measurement company, has pioneered chromatography, mass spectrometry and thermal analysis innovations serving the life, materials, and food sciences for over 60 years. With approximately 8,000 employees worldwide, Waters operates directly in 35 countries, including 15 manufacturing facilities, with products available in more than 100 countries. Our team focuses on creating business advantages for laboratory-dependent organizations to enable significant advancement in healthcare delivery, environmental management, food safety, and water quality.

Working at Waters enables our employees to unlock the potential of their careers. Our global team is driven by purpose. We strive to be better, learn and improve every day in everything we do. We're the problem solvers and innovators that aren't afraid to take risks to transform the world of human health and well-being. We're all in it together delivering benefit as one to provide the insights needed today in order to solve the challenges of tomorrow.

Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our core values at Waters Corporation. It is our responsibility to actively implement programs and practices to drive inclusive behavior and increase diversity across the organization. We are united by diversity and thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products, our customers and our community. Waters is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or protected Veteran status.

Key Words

particle synthesis surface modification process development scale up chromatography stationary phase