Description
Design, scale, and optimize chemical processes, performing qualitative and quantitative analyses to control quality and improve safety, yield, and efficiency from lab to production.
- • Analyze in-process materials, intermediates, and products using chromatography, spectroscopy, or spectrophotometry to monitor reaction progress and quality.
- • Develop and optimize reaction conditions, workups, and unit operations to improve yield, purity, cycle time, and cost.
- • Compile and analyze process and equipment data to assess efficiency and variability and to diagnose malfunctions or deviations.
- • Collaborate with chemical engineers, manufacturing, and QA to scale up processes and establish control strategies and specifications.
- • Guide and train technicians or operators in sampling, test procedures, and process-monitoring methods.
- • Run bench- and pilot-scale experiments varying temperature, pressure, stoichiometry, or catalysts to define robust operating ranges.
- • Write batch records, SOPs, technical reports, and process standards or specifications.
- • Prepare and qualify reagents, standards, and process solutions for trials and in-process testing.
- • Maintain and troubleshoot HPLC, GC, spectrometers, and process sensors to ensure reliable measurements.
- • Conduct in-process and final quality control tests to verify conformance to specifications.
- • Evaluate process and laboratory safety procedures and implement improvements to meet standards.
- • Manage inventories and purchasing of process chemicals, catalysts, and consumables, tracking expiration and storage conditions.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
