Opportunities
JOB DESCRIPTION:
JOB TITLE: Accounting Clerk
DEPARTMENT: Accounting
SUPERVISOR: Accounting Manager
Description:
The Accounting Clerk’s areas of responsibility include coordination of company shipments, client invoicing, accounts receivable monitoring, and front office support.
Responsibilities:
- SHIPPING
- Coordinate outbound shipments according to the company policy and procedures.
- Obtain DOT & IATA Hazmat Shipping certification.
- CONTRACT MONITORING AND INVOICING
- Monitor service contract billing milestones and related project materials.
- Monitor project spending variances.
- Prepare service invoices and issue upon approval.
- Prepare material charge invoices and issue upon approval
- Coordinate with project leaders to ensure vendor invoices are coded to the proper projects and make adjustments for sales taxes when required.
- Prepare and issue project financial reports to Project Leaders.
- Monitor customer accounts receivable. Contact customers regarding past-due invoices and report collection status to management
- Fulfill Customer Service tasks including:
- Order entry.
- Coordinate with coworkers in production, quality and shipping.
- Coordinate with customers regarding deliveries.
- Establish and update project financial tracking reports using the company provided forms.
- Portfolio meeting: prepare project slides for a monthly project review meeting and circulate post-meeting action items and notes.
- FRONT OFFICE SUPPORT
- Cover front desk (greet visitors, provide visitor badges, answer phones, monitor staff going off site, etc.) when the receptionist is absent or at lunch.
- Prepare and print labels for lab chemical inventories.
- Maintain Confidential Disclosure Agreements (CDA) for clients and vendors in document management system.
Education / Experience / Personal Requirements:
- 2 years experience in an administrative, clerical or bookkeeping role
- Accounting/Bookkeeping coursework, preferred
- Experience with QuickBooks preferred
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office (Excel/Word)
- Meet commitments timely and manage expectations
- Exhibit close attention to detail and maintain an organized work space
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JOB DESCRIPTION:
JOB TITLE: Senior Chemist II Process Research and Development
DEPARTMENT: Process Research and Development
SUPERVISOR:Projects Leader, Projects Leader I, Projects Leader II,
Principal Scientist, Senior Principal Scientist, Group Leader,
Senior Group Leader, Associate R&D Director or Director,
Process Research and Development
Description:
The Process Research and Development Senior Chemist II provides
technical leadership to perform synthetic chemistry experiments developing
and validating process chemistry for new and/or established products and
projects, characterizing reaction products and intermediates with appropriate
methods and maintaining laboratory records in accordance with cGMP/GLP
practices and requirements.
Responsibilities:
- Primary Responsibilities:
- Assist in evaluating the feasibility of synthesizing compounds that may be brought to Norac Pharma.
- Develop and validate synthetic lab and pilot plant processes to produce a variety of organic and organometallic compounds.
- Conduct relevant literature searches.
- Develop lab scale procedures for the syntheses of organic compounds.
- Optimize the procedure to improve yields in the syntheses of organic compounds.
- Scale up the lab process to produce pilot plant and production quantities of the compounds in accordance with cGMP requirements.
- Write Development Reports on synthesis and scale up projects per cGMPs.
- Maintain complete laboratory records in accordance with accepted laboratory practices, SOPs, and regulatory requirements.
- Develop analytical methodologies
- Monitor yield and efficiencies of processes after commercial startup at the plant.
- Help establish necessary practices to ensure GLP/cGMP compliance.
- Take on Project Leader responsibilities and manage the work load vs. project timelines to complete projects on time, within budget and achieving the desired quality.
- May provide direct supervision to junior staff as well as work in a mentoring role. Acts as peer review for work of others, consistent with training.
- Assist with the preparation / review of controlled and regulatory documents.
- Work with contract organizations as necessary.
- Adheres to current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP’s).
- Verbal interaction with clients to discuss scientific results.
- Safety Responsibilities:
- Actively support the Environmental, Health & Safety programs of Norac Pharma to ensure employee and plant safety and security
- Perform a critical review of the processes to determine potential risk and make recommendations to mitigate the risks.
- Work with management, technical personnel, and EHS director to ensure any new process or changes to existing processes follow OSHA PSM guidelines.
- Ensure compliance with OSHA and other safety regulations (e.g., hot work, lock out tags, confined work space, etc.).
Education / Experience / Personal Requirements:
- M.Sc. in Chemistry (or equivalent) with 15+ years of work experience in the synthesis and manufacture of active pharmaceutical ingredients
- Ph.D. in Chemistry (or equivalent) with 5+ years of work experience in the synthesis and manufacture of active pharmaceutical ingredients
- Hands on experience with a variety of analytical equipment such as HPLCs, GCs, and usual organic spectroscopic instrumentation.
- Displays excellent working knowledge of cGMP/GLP principles and able to apply the principles.
- Excellent interpersonal and leadership skills.
- Ability to operate in a decentralized environment.
- Ability to manage multiple tasks and prioritize work.
- Self-motivated with strong organizational and time management skills.
- Demonstration of previous managerial experience and/or team leading experience is preferred.
- Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team and coordinate activities with cross-functional departments.