Scientist

GE Healthcare Life Sciences provides products and services used as tools for biopharmaceutical manufacturing, drug discovery and the latest in cellular technologies, thereby enabling our customers around the world to be more productive, effective and creative. Our motivation is to create better health for more people. Through our five decades of supporting the biopharmaceutical industry and its research partners to become more productive, we are helping to reduce costs, increase access and improve quality in the healthcare system. We use our expertise and know-how in imaginative ways to work with our customers to provide whats needed today and create products and solutions to enable the medical treatments of tomorrow.

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Role Summary
We are looking for a creative, skilled polymer chemist or chemist with a strong understanding of emulsification processes (PhD in polymer, physical, colloid, surface or materials chemistry or similar experience) with a strong laboratory orientation. You will, as part of R&D, contribute to development of leading products which are used in the manufacturing of vitally important biological drug therapies.

Essential Responsibilities
The role is with the Particle Design section of the BioProcess Media department, BioProcess R&D. The section?s main activities are focused on the design and characterization of structured particles for chromatographic separation of biomolecules.

More specifically your tasks will include:
-Act as a technical specialist in the field of particle technology/emulsification
-Identify, implement new techniques and follow the technical development in the field
-Independently plan and accomplish given tasks, to reach given project objectives
-Independently solve problems of "trouble shooting character" in project work
-Act as supervisor
-Identify and lead external collaborations
-Document and report results both verbally and written

Qualifications
-PhD or equivalent in in polymer, physical, colloid, surface or materials chemistry or related fields
-Experience from techniques for particle synthesis methods, e.g. emulsification- suspension polymerisation
-Experience and have worked active with material related questions: e.g. physical properties related to microstructures
-Experience from supervising personnel
Strong interpersonal skills and excellent communication skills
-Experience from laboratory work and report writing; enthusiasm to spend a large part of time in laboratory work
-English and Swedish as working languages
-EU work permit

Desired Characteristics
Experience of industrial development work
Experience of work with poly saccharides
Delivery focus

Please send us your application via gecareers.com job nr. 1970400. Last application day is August 15th.