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 chemicalpharmaceutical 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.

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 knowhow in process chemistry in the assessment of greener synthesis routes the development of our green chemical processes and scaleups 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!

Tasks

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 manufacturing. You will be working in a multidisciplinary team developing our green processes using your organic and process chemistry knowledge and creative problemsolving 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 techtransfer to our manufacturing partners.
• Control strategies for the impurities 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 Process Development & Manufacturing.
• Experience developing synthesis processes including common unit operations such as reactions workups and crystallizations.
• Experience developing processes for large scale manufacturing and working with contract development manufacturing organizations (CDMOs).
• Experience with regulatory authoring and submissions.
• Knowledge of ICH guidelines and GMP manufacturing.
• 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 fastpaced dynamic environment.
• Good organizational and timemanagement skills.
• Exceptional communication skills and the ability to translate between different technical languages and understandings.
• Highly selfdriven 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 dont want to work for a specific customer due to moral reasons. There were several occasions that also our CEO used this right.

We offer very flexible working hours (results orientation) and the integration into an extremely motivated interdisciplinary team. Moreover you will have 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 stateoftheart driven and we promise that we will always listen to your ideas. Our dynamic 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 wed be very pleased if youd 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 consider your individual needs and the specific circumstances you are in. Additionally we have established a stock option pool for our employees and you will get 28 days holiday per year on a 100% position as well as a ticket for the public transport in Berlin.

We also provide you with organic fruits snacks and nonalcoholic drinks in our offices and labs in Berlin. Coachings and job relevant trainings are supported as well.

Anything else you need Just let us know! :)

Lets transform the industry for the better together!

How you can apply:

Send your CV cover letter and anything else which you consider relevant for us to our team. We are very much looking forward to hearing from you!