Current Openings
Job: Synthetic organic chemist
Job Type: Full-time
Location: Fredericton, NB, Canada
Tentative Start Date: July 5, 2021
Compensation: Commensurate with experience
DE Synthetics is seeking an energetic, conscientious, knowledgeable, and creative synthetic organic chemist to be part of a fast paced but well-balanced research atmosphere contributing to high value medicinal and process chemistry efforts.
Qualifications:
Primary Duties:
Required or Preferred Skills:
This job advertisement is directed only to individuals eligible to work in Canada (Canadian citizens, permanent residents, or those who possess a valid open work permit).
Interested candidates should send their CV (and research summary if available) to: contact@desynthetics.com
Qualified candidates will be contacted. No phone calls please.
Job: Synthetic organic chemist
Job Type: Full-time
Location: Fredericton, NB, Canada
Tentative Start Date: July 5, 2021
Compensation: Commensurate with experience
DE Synthetics is seeking an energetic, conscientious, knowledgeable, and creative synthetic organic chemist to be part of a fast paced but well-balanced research atmosphere contributing to high value medicinal and process chemistry efforts.
Qualifications:
- PhD in synthetic organic chemistry or MSc / BSc with relevant industrial experience.
- Experience with pharmaceutical scale-up or process chemistry is preferred.
Primary Duties:
- Process research to enable efficient and scalable syntheses.
- Troubleshooting, optimization, and scale-up of synthetic transformations.
- Multi-step organic synthesis within specified timelines to enable the advancement of medicinal chemistry projects.
- Development and implementation of novel synthetic routes.
- Analysis, characterization, and identification of chemical products via NMR, HPLC, and mass spectrometry.
- Writing of progress updates and reports.
- Maintenance of a clean, organized, and safe laboratory setting.
- Compliance to confidentiality agreements.
Required or Preferred Skills:
- Excellent practical skills in the lab particular to multi-step organic synthesis are a must.
- Good problem solving abilities.
- Experience with heterocyclic chemistry is preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to independently set up reactions, monitor their progress by chromatographic techniques, isolate and purify products (such as by column chromatography) are absolutely required.
- Experience using, maintaining, and trouble-shooting Agilent HPLC / LCMS instruments would be assets.
- Attention to detail and ability to multi-task.
- Ability to complete work within defined timelines.
- Good organizational and communication skills.
This job advertisement is directed only to individuals eligible to work in Canada (Canadian citizens, permanent residents, or those who possess a valid open work permit).
Interested candidates should send their CV (and research summary if available) to: contact@desynthetics.com
Qualified candidates will be contacted. No phone calls please.