Process Chemist

**Who we are: **

DUDE CHEM is a Green Chemistry startup with its origins in the German Cluster of Excellence in Catalysis at the University of Technology Berlin. We are a small but mighty team which is dedicated to fulfil our mission: Based on the 12 Principles of Green Chemistry we aim to build a green chemical-pharmaceutical industry. The industry currently consumes >13% of all fossil resources, most of them during the manufacturing. Our aim is to change this.

In order to achieve this goal, we have built a strong IP portfolio and validated the tech onto the market in order to reduce or reuse expensive resources in the production of chemicals and pharmaceuticals.

We believe that digitalization can be an integral tool for the implementation of greener, more sustainable production processes.

This is why we combine both scientific disciplines – digitalization and sustainability – in all of our projects. Over the last years, our team has proven that our approaches work and created hard competitive advantages in the core of the value chain of their customers.

Tasks

**Why we need you: **

We have recently secured a financing round in order to bring our first, greener manufactured products into the plants. Further, many customers are approaching us in order to get our support and help them to produce in a more sustainable and controlled way. Thus, we need your help to bring our greener processes into manufacturing as part of our Chemistry & Engineering Team.

In this role you will support our development team with your know-how in process chemistry, in the assessment of greener synthesis routes, the development of our green chemical processes, and scale-ups to the manufacturing plant. You will support us in establishing and shaping our process chemistry capabilities and strategy as the company grows into the future.

If you want to develop innovative green chemical manufacturing processes, bring them from the lab scale into the plant scale and have a real positive impact on the world, you are the perfect match for us!

**Results we expect: **

As a Process Chemist we expect you to help develop our processes across the process development life cycle, from route design to process validation and manufacturing. You will be working in a multidisciplinary team developing our green processes, using your organic and process chemistry knowledge and creative problem-solving skills.

• Scalable and greener routes designed in collaboration with our synthesis chemists.

• Planned, executed and analysed small scale laboratory experiments in collaboration with our lab technicians to develop our green processes. Identification and removal of impurities from our reaction process steps in collaboration with our analytical chemists.

• Processes that are scalable, developed in collaboration with our process engineers.

• Tested synthesized material in collaboration with our synthesis chemists and lab technicians.

• Successful tech-transfer to our manufacturing partners.

• Control strategies for the processes and materials in our developed processes, in collaboration with our analytical chemists.

Requirements

**Skills and attitudes that might be helpful: **

• Degree (M.Sc., Dipl.-Ing or PhD, or equivalents) in chemistry, natural sciences, or a related discipline.

• 3 years of experience working in the pharmaceutical or fine chemical industry in Chemical Process Development & Manufacturing.

• Experience developing and scaling synthesis processes, including common unit operations such as reactions, work-ups and crystallizations.

• Demonstrated expertise in reaction optimisation, including the application of Design of Experiments (DoE) and kinetic modelling/optimisation techniques.

• Experience supporting late-phase development of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs), including identification and control of Critical Process Parameters (CPPs), Critical Material Attributes (CMAs), and establishment of design space.Hands-on experience developing robust processes suitable for large-scale manufacturing, with a track record of effective collaboration with Contract Development and Manufacturing Organizations (CDMOs).

• Experience with regulatory authoring and submissions and authoring of technical reports.

• Knowledge of ICH guidelines and practical experience of working in a GMP manufacturing environment

• Experience working in multidisciplinary teams, and with external partners

• Experience in leading initiatives and projects

• Ability to juggle multiple priorities and effectively deliver in a fast-paced, dynamic environment

• Good organizational and time-management skills

• Exceptional communication skills and the ability to translate between different technical languages and understandings.

• Highly self-driven, professional personality with an aspiration to excel in the role.

• Excellent written and oral communication, as well as presentation skills.

• Being fluent in English is a must, in German a plus.

Benefits

What we offer:

We regard your skills as well as your conscience as our highest assets. We provide every team member with a veto right on projects, e.g. if you don’t want to work for a specific customer due to moral reasons. There were several occasions that also our CEO used this right.

We offer you an unlimited work contract and flexible working hours (results orientation), with the options to work from home at least one day per week. You will be part of an extremely motivated interdisciplinary team, giving you all the possibilities to further develop yourself and to help us to build an industry anew.

DUDE CHEM strives to be a diverse and inclusive workplace where we can ALL be ourselves. We encourage job applications from people of all genders, backgrounds, and communities.

We are consequently state-of-the-art driven and we promise that we will always listen to your ideas. Our dynamic and flat hierarchies enable us to flexibly adapt our organizational structure to the level of expertise required in a project. Sometimes you will learn and sometimes you will have the lead in a project.

Open communication and direct feedback are values that we live every day. The conviction to do something that creates a positive impact in the world drives us forward. We are a young, enthusiastic team that likes each other very much and we’d be very pleased if you’d be interested in working with us!

Unfortunately, we neither are able to pay you BASF salaries, nor are we able to pay them to ourselves. However, we will do our best to pay you a competitive salary, considering your individual needs and the specific circumstances you are in. Additionally, you will receive stock options from our employee stock option pool so that you can participate in the success of the company. 28 days holiday per year, as well as an entirely paid for annual ticket for the public transport (“Deutschlandticket”) come on top of that.

We provide you with organic fruits, snacks, coffee & tea and non-alcoholic drinks in our offices and labs in Berlin. It is important for that you develop professionally, thus we support and offer coachings and job relevant trainings to you. Lastly, we have frequent company socials to just have some fun.

Anything else you need? Just let us know! :-) Let’s transform the industry for the better, together!