Analytical Chemist

Company Info
StaffRight Associates
Boston, MA, United States

Phone: 6172026777
Web Site: www.staffrightassociates.com

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Title:

Analytical Chemist

Location:

Woburn, MA 

Salary:

$85,000.00 - $110,000.00

Job ID:

69752
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Job Description:

The client has been providing contract testing, research, and development in the area of materials to clients worldwide. They need an inquisitive Analytical Chemist to help them grow their business.
 
Job Description: (Please review these qualifications carefully)
  • The client is a contract research laboratory with 20 + years’ experience providing consulting, material product development, and analytical testing services focused in the area of polymeric materials.
  • They need an Analytical Chemist to perform experimental design, method development, validation, and analysis.
  • The Analytical Chemist has proven track record developing and implementing robust methods for non-targeted and targeted chemical analyses in a diverse set of matrices.
  • The Analytical Chemist has worked with a variety of sample preparation workflows (e.g., extractions, simulated leaching conditions, derivatizations).
  • The Analytical Chemist has implemented analytical quality best practices and experimental controls ensuring the highest level of confidence in reported results.
  • The Analytical Chemist must be experienced in GC-MS, LC-MS, GPC and GPC-MALLS is a plus. Experience with Agilent instruments and ChemStation is a plus.
  • Strong understanding of the selection and use of system suitability standards, continuing calibration checks, spike recovery standards, surrogate standards, internal standards, replicate preparations, and trending/control charts.
 
Responsibilities:
  • Critical analysis of data generated by other personal.
  • Documentation, data/method/library organization, report generation communication of results.
  • Familiarity with semi-quantitation and unknown compound identification workflows.
  • Focus on analytical quality incorporate verification/validation activities and experimental controls.
  • Hardware configuration, detector verification, system diagnostics.
  • Identification of analytical conditions given target analytes or problem statement,
  • Key member of the chromatography and analytical chemistry testing team.
  • Method optimization, characterization for LOD/LOQ, sensitivity, resolution, repeatability, etc.
  • Provide a resource for secondary analysis/review of data with emphasis on critical thinking
  • Quantitative analytical method development, validation for targeted and non-targeted assays.
  • Routine chromatography on LC-QTOF instruments.
  • Sample loading, sequence queuing, data analysis/interpretation including a familiarity with semi-quantitation and unknown compound identification workflows.
  • Sample preparation selection and execution by solvent extraction, SPE, L/L extractions, etc.
  • Writing qualification documents (ICH or USP criteria), SOPs, training staff to new methods.
 
Requirements:
  • 5 + years laboratory experience in one of the following areas is preferred: Contract R&D or CRO/CDMO lab, Extractable & leachable (E&L) or chemical characterization lab, Polymer analysis lab, Failure analysis or forensic lab, Environmental lab, Manufacturing QC lab Pharma or startup analytical lab.
  • BS or MS Analytical Chemistry, Chemistry or Chemical Engineering.
  • ISO 9001:2015 certified, ISO 17025:2005 accredited, registered with FDA need similar expertise.
  • Work in a small, adaptable company focused on non-routine, high-quality and rapid projects.