Engineer II
Location - North Chicago,100% onsite
Are you open to look at candidates willing to relocate at their own expense? - yes
What are the top 3-5 skills, experience or education required for this position?
- Chemical engineering background
- Protein characterization (SDS-PAGE, immune-assay, etc.)
- Biomolecule precipitation/crystallization
What is a nice to have (but not required) skill, experience, education, or certification?
- Biologics downstream operations experience
- Fermentation process development
- Agitated vacuum drying experience
Job Description
- Chemical engineers support API and natural products projects through all phases of late-stage development, commercialization, and product life cycle.
- This position is responsible for ensuring that processes can be run safely, addressing scale-up issues, and developing and implementing robust API process steps from the lab to a manufacturing environment.
- The engineer is responsible for late-stage process development, assessing key unit operations (e.g., reactions, centrifugations, filtrations) for process robustness, scientific understanding, and potential scale-up risks.
- Effective cross-functional interactions with other functions (e.g., technical, quality, regulatory) and on-site manufacturing personnel are key for successful job performance.
In what type of environment would this individual be working (i.e.: Team; Individual; type of office, etc.) - Mostly lab environment within a project team. Individual would be assigned an office space and lab space for work.
Daily Work Schedule Expectations - Core schedule hours are 9-4, but willing to be flexible.
Is overtime offered or required? Not required, and not offered.