Chemist - 1 Year Contract

**THE OPPORTUNITY**
- **Be part of the team that ensures sustainable products meets standard quality and committed to deliver to customers worldwide**:

- **Based in Singapore**, the regional hub for **Asia Pacific (AP) **and **top-ranked biopharmaceutical company on the Straits Times **and **Statista’s list of Best Employers in Singapore for two consecutive years (2020, 2021).**:

- Join the **premier biopharmaceutical company** that has been **in Singapore for more than 25 years and in AP for over 60 years.**

Our Quality Assurance group ensures every single material inside our products is manufactured, processed, tested, packaged, stored and distributed aligned with our incredibly high standards of quality and meets all regulatory requirements. Partnering across our internal manufacturing facilities, external contract manufacturers and suppliers we create an interdependent global manufacturing network committed to deliver a compliant, reliable supply to customers and patients on time, every time, across

Reporting to Lab Manager, Quality Control, the Chemist is responsible for performing and reviewing laboratory testing of raw materials, in-process samples, intermediates, final drug substances and stability batches in Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients Laboratories.

**WHAT YOU WILL DO**:
Critical responsibilities but not limited to:

- Ensure tests and other tasks assigned are performed in a timely manner in compliance to Standard Operating procedures, requirements specified in our company Quality and Safety Standards, regulatory dossiers and pharmacopoeia.
- Manage and perform calibration, maintenance and qualification of laboratory equipment.
- Participate in laboratory efficiency improvement tasks, analytical method transfer, development, validation and equipment qualifications activities.
- Conduct and support Laboratory investigation on laboratory equipment failure, OOT and OOS and identify the root cause and its report writing.
- Review and revise Standard Operating Procedures and laboratory test methods.
- Perform and maintain good laboratory housekeeping, inventory and in-house stock control, reference standards, chemical reagents, and consumables.

After one year on the position, you will be competent to perform most of the laboratory testing following cGMP, data integrity and GLP requirement. You will have been trained to use various laboratory equipment ranging from such as particle size analyzer, FTIR, UV-Vis spectrometer, microscope, Empower CDS, HPLC, GC, etc.

**WHAT YOU MUST HAVE**
- Bachelor Degree in Chemistry / Biochemistry with prior working experience preferred.
- 0 - 3 years’ experience in pharmaceutical analysis is preferred. Fresh graduates with relevant internship experience will be considered.
- Experience in particle size analyser, GC, HPLC, FTIR, Karl Fischer Titrator, Potentiometric titrators with technical competency is preferred.
- Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of cGMP, GLP, and associated regulatory expectations related to Pharmaceutical Analytical testing is preferred
- Position can be on regular hours or 12 hours rotating shift (night/day including Sat/Sun). If on shift, shift allowance will be provided

**WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT**
- Limitless opportunities across various areas in Manufacturing; well-structured career path
- A state-of-the-art facility that delivers solution to its customers world-wide

Our Manufacturing & Supply Division is committed to be the most trusted supplier of bio-pharmaceuticals worldwide. Our facilities, along with our external contractors, suppliers, and partners, create an interdependent global manufacturing network that’s committed to delivering a high quality, reliable supply to customers and patients on time, every time.

**Who we are**

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

**What we look for**

Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.

We are proud to be a company that embraces the value of bringing diverse, talented, and committed people together. The fastest way to breakthrough innovation is when diverse ideas come togethe