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Senior Scientist, R&D Materials Location: US-UT-Salt Lake City Email this job to a friend
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Responsibilities: - Work independently and within a multifunctional team.
- Understand the translation of chemical and polymer technologies to deployment in products.
- Keep abreast of potential new technologies to enable the design of new materials and capabilities.
- Leverage existing technologies to advance our core businesses while supporting the development of new products and platforms.
- Advance our chemistry development, polymer synthesis, coating formulation for drug delivery systems, and application capabilities.
- Collaborate in the creation, evaluation, and assessment of competitive products, processes, technology, and trends.
- Ensure compliance with BD quality policies, procedures, and practices through appropriate communication, training and education of sound quality assurance principles.
- Design, develop, and improve materials related to BD products
- Implement experimental designs, write protocols and reports, perform data analysis, present out on findings
- Provide direction to lower-level engineers (when appropriate) and technicians
- Assist in the transfer of new technologies from R&D to manufacturing
- Provide technical expertise to new development projects
- Define material properties and requirements in order to meet product requirements
- Actively seek training to improve skills and teach/promote/reward new learning within the organization
- Utilization of the scientific method to identify problems or potential risks and deliver quick, effective solutions to enable projects to meet their timing and deliverables
- Hold and encourage frequent formal and informal communication within the team.
Requirements: - PhD: 0-3 years of post-graduate industrial experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience
- Degree: Chemistry, polymer science, chemical engineering, materials science, biomedical or other related degrees
- Skills in polymer synthesis applied to coatings for drug delivery and adhesives.
- Successful track record of on time delivery to project deliverables
- Medical device industry experience preferred
- Demonstrated understanding of material structure-property relationship
- Application of statistical and analytical methods such as Design of Experiments and ANOVA analysis
- An understanding of design control processes
- Experience with scale-up and transfer of material technologies to manufacturing
- Test protocol generation, execution, and reporting
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Basic knowledge of project management for new product development
- Ability to work within multifunctional teams and work cross-functionally.
- Strong fit to Client's core values and the Client way
- A basic understanding of regulatory and quality processes
Katalyst HealthCares & Life Sciences Inc
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