Senior Downstream Process Development Scientist

We are looking for an experienced Downstream Process Development Scientist to join a highly innovative organisation tasked with bringing the UK to the forefront of innovation across a wide range of scientific sectors including biotech, Agri-tech, pharma and biopharma. Joining an expanding team, the main responsibility for the Senior Scientist will be to deliver technical projects, working across multidiscipline teams including fermentation, microbiology, quality, operations, and engineering. Within this role you will have the opportunity to develop knowledge on multiple DSP technologies across a variety of projects, from laboratory scale-down development through to demonstration scale at 10,000L. The variety of projects and associated bioproducts across multiple markets ensures a diversity of downstream processes with no two processes the same, to support our clients towards commercialisation.

Responsibilities:

• To build and maintain a network of relevant internal stakeholders, to represent self and the wider team as a credible professional in networks and groups.
• To present and formally report experimental conclusions and supporting data for internal peer review and submission to clients, to agreed timescales and standards.
• To set up, plan and execute experimental / pilot scale runs and analyse, interpret, and report the results of these within agreed timescales and quality standards, and in accordance with project / client requirements.
• To be responsible for providing clearly documented records of technical data, decisions, methodologies, calculations and software use in an agreed format.
• To take ownership in agreeing weekly workplans with line manager, project manager(s) and other relevant stakeholders, and delivering plan to agreed schedule.
• To be responsible for the maintenance and calibration of equipment to ensure it operates in a safe and efficient manner and is available to meet customer needs.

Requirements:

• Possess technical expertise in downstream processing as well as evidence of technical problem solving.
• Hold recent experience of performing techniques for the purification of biobased feedstocks (for example centrifugation, filtration, and chromatography) and protein analysis (for example HPLC methods, SDS PAGE & ELISA technologies).
• Have theoretical and practical knowledge in Biochemistry, Biological Separation/Purification, Biochemical Engineering and relevant analytical techniques.
• Understand the biochemistry across a range of different biological products including proteins, lipids, carbohydrates & platform biochemicals.
• Have experience of downstream processing unit operations at laboratory scale.

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