Overview
In this MSAT role, you drive technical leadership across LC column manufacturing, solving high-impact production challenges and boosting product consistency. You will bridge manufacturing, quality, R&D, and global teams to optimize processes, enable robust operations, and deliver data-driven improvements that raise quality and customer satisfaction. You’ll tackle root-cause investigations, transfer knowledge, and scale processes to support new products. This is a chance to shape chromatography performance across sites within a leading life-sciences instrumentation company.
Leistungen / Benefits
- bonus eligible
- stock options
- benefits package
- full-time
- annual pay range provided
Verantwortungsbereiche
- Provide technical leadership for LC column manufacturing, including silica particle production/modification and packing/loading operations
- Lead root-cause investigations for production issues affecting quality, throughput, yield, or customer performance
- Apply chemistry, materials science, and engineering knowledge to understand process interactions and develop sustainable solutions
- Use statistics, DOE, process capability metrics, and advanced data analytics to drive decisions
- Improve process robustness and reduce variability via targeted improvements
- Collaborate with Manufacturing, Quality, R&D, Supply Chain, and Product Management to resolve challenges and implement lifecycle improvements
- Support technology transfer, scale-up, material changes, supplier changes, and new product introductions
- Develop and maintain process knowledge, control strategies, and technical standards for consistent performance across sites
- Drive value creation initiatives focusing on quality, delivery, capacity, and cost improvements
- Communicate findings and recommendations clearly to technical and business stakeholders
Zentrale Anforderungen
- Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, Engineering, or related discipline
- 4+ years in a manufacturing environment with process improvement experience
- Experience applying data analysis and statistical tools to solve problems
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional technical investigations and implement corrective actions
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills
- Analytical mindset
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Clear communication
- Chromatography/LC column manufacturing
- Silica materials; particle synthesis; porous materials
- Process capability analysis; DOE; SPC; Lean Six Sigma; advanced manufacturing analytics
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