Qualifications:

PhD with 2+ years’ experience

OR MS with 5+ years of experience, preferably in Chemical industry

Key Responsibilities:

- Literature search and evaluation
- Plan safe, scaleable and commercially viable synthetic routes for the preparation of fragrance and flavor compounds
- Recent process development
- Cost reduction in existing commercial processes
- Impurity Synthesis and characterization
- Trouble shooting regarding commercial non-conformance batches
- Progress report preparation and presentation
- Document review regarding process development and validation
- SOPs/ guidelines preparation, review and training
- Facilitate internal audits
- Maintain safety standards & lab discipline
- Team development
- Maintain & upgrade R&D; infrastructure

Experience In

- Experience of handling the complete management of synthetic organic chemistry projects.
- Responsible for literature search and designing the synthetic route and schemes of the organic compounds of interest.
- Synthesis, purification and structural elucidation of organic compound in milligram to kilogram scale




- Ability of improvement in product manufacturing process for efficient optimization and cost reduction in commercial product from R&D; scale to pilot plant.
- Ability to handle product safely on chemical process & the ability to estimate and remove the risk for pilot plant production.
- Responsible for managing other research chemist in order to achieve the objective goal as well as leadership in the function and ability to work together with other relevant section.
- Experience of process development, validation, commercialization, process safety data interpretation and troubleshooting of the upstream and downstream process
- Calibration, operation and maintenance of variety of laboratory equipment as specified by the requirements of the research study.
- Excellent understanding of organic chemistry fundamentals including stereochemistry, and reaction mechanisms
- Familiarity with Gas Chromatography, Mass Spectrometry, H & C NMR, IR and UV-vis spectroscopy
- Experience with Design of Experiments (DoE) software or knowledge of DoE is preferred
- Experience with reaction kinetics/mechanistic investigation is a plus

📌 Research Scientist/ Lead Scientist - Synthesis (Mumbai)
🏢 Aarav Fragrances u0026 Flavors
📍 Mumbai