An experienced Formulation Scientist is required to join a small and innovative team within a global pharaceutical company based in Dublin.
Responsibilities:
- Carrying out all necessary formulation development of different dosage forms, such as pre-formulation studies, laboratory scale studies, optimisation experiments.
- Handling equipment employed in the formulation development lab.
- Executing all lab activities in a safe and reliable manner in line with Pharmaceutical GLP/GMP and/or internal guidelines.
- Perform testing on the Engineering and Validation batches manufactured as part of New Product Introductions or Process Optimisations.
- Investigate issues with existing products or manufacturing processes during the commercial manufacturing operations with an intent to either resolve the issue or improve the product quality.
- Generate/update the technical documents based on evaluation of the Formulation and Manufacturing Process.
- Conduct patent literature survey and database search.
- Document all work as required by cGMPs on a timely basis.
- Write up trial batch records as required.
- Preparation of standard operating procedures.
Skills & Experience:
- Master's degree or higher in Pharmaceutical Sciences/Technology.
- Minimum 2+ years' experience in a pharmaceutical research and manufacturing environment.
- Experience with solid state characterisation for oral dosage forms (SEM, Powder Rheometer, Particle Size Analyser, Flowability Tester, etc.).
- Basic analytical skills (UV & HPLC).
- Competent in wet granulation, the use of fluid bed dryers, extrusion-spheroidisation and/or fluid bed (Wurster) coating processes and scale-up of these processes.
- Competent in formulation development techniques and interpretation of results.
- Experience with transfer of scale-up process into production.
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