Physical Properties Scientist, GlaxoSmithKline, Ware, Hertfordshire
Basic qualifications:
- Extensive experience in pharmaceutical development, and physical property characterisation.
- A good knowledge of analytical techniques relating to solid state and powder properties and the ability to work to GxP requirements.
- Ability to develop and validate robust and transferable analytical methods from R&D to commercial manufacturing.
- Experience of contributing to regulatory dossiers.
- Good Communications skills, team working skills, customer focus and flexible thinking.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience in the development and characterisation of inhaled and oral medicines.
- Leadership and coordination of physical properties characterisation for late phase projects.
- In depth knowledge of techniques such as particle size / shape analysis, surface property analysis, vibrational spectroscopy and imaging, bulk powder analysis, mechanical property analysis and amorphous/crystalline characterisation.
Details:
As a world leading pharmaceutical healthcare company, research and development plays a fundamental role in helping us to achieve our goal – enabling people to do more, feel better and live longer. Particle Generation, Control and Engineering department , part of Product Development, undertakes critical expert work in the control and characterisation of actives and excipients for the development of our new products, from Early Phase to transfer to commercial Manufacturing and beyond. We are looking for scientists to join and strengthen this important group.
We have an opportunity for a Physical Properties Scientist to join the team. In this role you will be part of our physical properties team, where you will act as a representative for the team and department at multidisciplinary project meetings.
As a Physical Properties Scientist, you will ensure that comprehensive physical properties characterisation is undertaken on actives, excipients and formulated products across a variety of drug development projects, including those on inhaled and intranasal compounds. A central feature of this role is the ability to apply physical properties information to ensure excellent product performance in the medicines being developed.
You will balance laboratory work with other responsibilities, such as reporting, presenting and interpreting data, and advising colleagues within Product Development. You will have the opportunity to utilise state-of-the-art, specialised characterisation techniques as part of the investigation and to introduce novel science to your own team and to other teams in the department.
Closing date for applications: Tuesday 30th August 2011.
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