Field Application Scientist

Preferred Responsibilities:

- Good understanding and knowledge of the Biopharmaceutical/ Biotech industry.
- Experience with small-scale, pilot-scale and large-scale column packing.
- Experience in non-GMP Pilot plant and cGMP production operation.
- Experience with filtration and other downstream unit operations.
- Ability to effectively multi-task and manage multiple priorities at one-time. Experience working in an external-facing role (FAS, Product Specialist.)

Essential Responsibilities:

- Provide technical consultation and scientific support on all scale/ phase of process development from process screening to bench to pilot to tech. transfer to cGMP, including column packing and troubleshooting activities.
- Successfully provide technical guidance to customers during evaluation, process development scale-up and implementation of Purolite chromatography resins to cGMP.
- Work directly with end-users to understand purification goals and address challenges.
- Solid critical thinking skills with the ability to communicate technical issues, resolve complex problems and propose appropriate scientifically efficient, robust and scalable solutions.
- Develop and maintain business and technical relationships with the accounts through effective communication on a continuous rhythm.
- Contribute to knowledge management databases
- Strategically position Purolite in the context of addressing customer needs and process solutions.
- Provide technical seminars, training, hands-on bench work, product demonstration and technical customer service activities to support Commercial objectives.
- Cross-functional internal responsibilities include supporting the Applications team, Product Management, Marketing and R&D.

Minimum Qualifications:

- BS required, MS or PhD in biochemistry, Chem Engineering, biotechnology, biology, or chemistry preferred- 5 years of relevant chromatography direct development experience in Process Development (PD) and/or MSAT.
- Strong fundamental and practical knowledge of chromatographic techniques plus hands-on experience in protein purification.
- Ability to interpret and operate data from an AKTA or alternative bench-scale chromatography development system and/or automated high throughput development systems, such as Tecan.
- Experience in small-scale, pilot-scale and large-scale chromatography operations.
- Knowledge of analytics used to support purification development activities including HPLC, ELISA, SDS-PAGE and spectroscopy and ability to interpret data sets.
- Understanding of Design-of-Experiment (DOE) and/or statistics.
- Strong written and oral communication skills

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