Role Overview
The successful Process Engineering candidate will play a key technical team leader role in the R&D Process Engineering function. In addition to a strong background in fundamentals of chemical engineering, the ideal candidate will have demonstrated experience in the biologics, peptides, ADC development and genetic medicines as a strong technical team leader. The candidate must have demonstrated initiative in building and sustaining cross-functional collaborations. In addition to leading the technical team, the successful candidate is also expected to lead the identification and development of novel approaches and technologies to enhance process development efficiency and commercialization of novel modalities. The candidate must exhibit a collaborative behavior in proactively identifying process challenges on a wide range of pipeline and innovation projects, take a leadership role in a cross-functional team to deliver specific project needs, and take on a scientific leadership role in developing and implementing solutions.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop robust manufacturing processes, supporting assets including novel modalities through all phases of clinical development.
- Lead project teams towards process development and characterization of new synthetic and large molecule assets.
- Influence process development of toxins, cosmetic active ingredients and genetic medicines proactively.
- Lead scale-up of laboratory processes in the pilot plant.
- Set project strategies, define project responsibilities and timelines, and provide leadership in a matrixed team setting.
- Address challenging problems with biochemical reactions, separations, and/or isolations using expertise in reaction kinetics, transport phenomena, and mathematical modeling.
- Establish, communicate, and execute research plans.
- Exhibit a collaborative nature in identifying process challenges on a wide range of projects and communicate findings and recommendations effectively by multi-disciplinary interactions with organic chemists, analytical chemists, process development engineers, pilot plant engineers, drug product development scientists, program managers, and regulatory affairs specialists.
- Author and/or review technical documents summarizing process development efforts and contribute to regulatory filings.
- Strengthen scientific brand of Process Engineering while providing mentorship to direct reports and process engineering colleagues.