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Actual compensation will depend on a candidate’s education, experience, skills, and geographic location.  The anticipated wage for this position is

$69,000 - $179,300

At Lilly, we serve an extraordinary purpose. For more than 140 years, we have worked tirelessly to discover medicines that make life better. These discoveries start in Lilly Research Laboratories, where our scientists work to create new medicines that will help solve our world’s greatest health challenges

Responsibilities:

In this role, the Chemist would be operating and maintaining chemistry scale-up equipment in a pharmaceutical research and development laboratory. Actively involved in receiving chemistry from early phase process chemistry and medicinal chemistry labs: evaluating the safety of the incoming procedures in collaboration with the safety group, ordering and staging chemicals, obtaining reference materials and participating in setting up analytical methods, performing scale-up reactions to supply materials to support early phase development and to complete demonstrations towards technical transfers to a GMP kilo-lab. Training and assisting scientists that submit chemistry for scale-up and demonstrations. Participation in the development of chemical reactions, work-ups, and purifications/isolations.

Basic Qualification

BS/MS level chemist with experience developing and scaling reactions from gram to hundreds of grams scale.

Additional Preferences:

Expected to maintain a safe, clean, well-organized, and productive chemistry lab.Good working knowledge of organic chemistry and mechanisms and application to reaction improvement and optimization.Experience with a variety of analytical techniques: HPLC/UPLC, MS, NMR, GC, KF, DSC, XRD, etc. Process quantification and tying up mass balance.Familiarity with physical/solid state chemistry: crystallization development and optimization, understanding of polymorphism and particle size control, and safe handling of solids/dry end processing.Proficiency with the purification of chemicals via chromatography and distillation.Maintaining a well-organized and detailed lab notebook with accurate descriptions of the chemistry and observations to enable the preparation of technical packages/technical transfers and accurate replication in receiving labs.Participate in training, mentoring, and supporting chemists in safe and practical process chemistry techniques during demonstrations and material preparations.

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Full-time equivalent employees also will be eligible for a company bonus (depending, in part, on company and individual performance). In addition, Lilly offers a comprehensive benefit program to eligible employees, including eligibility to participate in a company-sponsored 401(k); pension; vacation benefits; eligibility for medical, dental, vision and prescription drug benefits; flexible benefits (e.g., healthcare and/or dependent day care flexible spending accounts); life insurance and death benefits; certain time off and leave of absence benefits; and well-being benefits (e.g., employee assistance program, fitness benefits, and employee clubs and activities).Lilly reserves the right to amend, modify, or terminate its compensation and benefit programs in its sole discretion and Lilly’s compensation practices and guidelines will apply regarding the details of any promotion or transfer of Lilly employees.

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