Senior Separation Scientist

SRG are delighted to be working with one of Scotland's most innovative and exciting early-stage organisations as they continue their exciting start to 2025.

As part of their ongoing expansion the organisation are looking to recruit a senior purification/separation scientist to work in their new production facility

The Role

As a senior separation scientist you will work closely with the production chemistry and synthetic chemistry teams to improve yield and purity of organic product. You will provide the organisation with expert-level knowledge in the isolation and purification of high-value materials of interest.

In this role you will be expected to carry out these purifications on a milligram to gram scale using techniques such as prep-HPLC, prep-SFC and flash chromatography. The successful candidate will also be responsible for method development and optimisation of these purification/separation processes.

The Right Person

• Ideally hold a PhD in a relevant subject
• Demonstrable experience in an industrial position focussed on purification/separation of organic products
• Expert level knowledge in chromatographic purification of organic material (SFC/HPLC/Flash Chromatography)
• Experience processing and generating relevant analytical datasets
• Demonstrable experience in process improvement