Scientist III (LCMS Pharma) Full-time

Scientist III – LCMS – Pharma

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you'll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life – enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research, development and delivery of life-changing therapies. With clinical trials conducted in 100+ countries and ongoing development of novel frameworks for clinical research through our PPD clinical research portfolio, our work spans laboratory, digital and decentralized clinical trial services. Your determination to deliver quality and accuracy will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on – now and in the future.

This position will be based at our GMP Laboratory in Athlone providing testing services to our clients.

Discover Impactful Work:

• Independently performs method validations, method transfers and analytical testing of pharmaceutical compounds in a variety of formulations.
• Designs and completes experiments with minimal supervision.
• Prepares study protocols, project status reports, final study reports and other project-related technical documents.
• Communicates data and technical issues to the client and responds to client needs
• Mentors, trains and coordinates laboratory activities of other team members and assists in troubleshooting instruments and analytical problems.
• Assists in designing method validation or method transfer protocols and establishing project timelines.
• Reviews data for technical, quality and compliance to protocols, methods, SOPs, client criteria and Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP).

Keys to Success:

• Educated to a bachelor's degree level in a relevant area, ie chemistry, biochemistry
• 5+ years' relevant industry experience within a GMP laboratory with experience handling various types of LCMS instrumentation for example LCMS-QQQ/ Sciex 6500 or similar, Orbitrap or other high resolution LCMS instrumentation and with complex data evaluation and processing
• Experience in Method Validation, Method Transfer and Analytical testing.

In some cases an equivalency, consisting of a combination of appropriate education, training and/or directly related experience, will be considered sufficient for an individual to meet the requirements of the role.

Detailed knowledge of method validation; method development would be an advantage.

The ability to plan, schedule and carry out work for successful project completion

A positive attitude and ability to work well with others

Excellent attention to detail

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