Opportunities
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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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Position
Senior Process Chemist
Salary compensation commensurate with experience.
Norac Pharma is looking to hire an experienced Process Chemist to join our team of dedicated professionals involved in Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) research, development and manufacture at our Azusa California site. The candidate that we recruit will ultimately be responsible for developing safely scalable processes for manufacture of existing API’s, as well as new medicines to benefit patients worldwide. These manufactures will be implemented in our Kilo Lab, Pilot Plant and Commercial Manufacturing facilities. The position requires the individual to provide technical leadership in performing synthetic chemistry experiments for understanding, developing and validating process chemistry for new and/or established products and projects, characterizing reaction products utilizing appropriate methodology and maintaining laboratory records in accordance with cGMP practices and requirements.
Norac Pharma is a California-based API contract research, development and manufacturing facility located in Azusa California, just east of Pasadena, at the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains. The region offers numerous hiking trails, as well as being ideally located for travelling to the beaches in the summer and to the mountains with skiing in the winter, in addition to providing easy access to superb arts, culture and a myriad of other social/leisure facilities and opportunities.
We believe that the long-term success of Norac Pharma depends first and foremost on recruiting and retaining the highest quality personnel, as well our cooperative cross-functional working thanks to our relatively small size of around 70 staff at this location, albeit with ongoing investment and growth and with strong supporting financial security. Norac Pharma enjoys world class facilities with state of the art analytical equipment which our scientists use for effective and efficient process design (detailed below). Apart from this breadth of analytical equipment, Norac Pharma has a variety of other process tools to aid in developing safe, scalable, robust processes (detailed below). We encourage diversity along with close and cooperative project team collaboration on each and every project.
Requirements:
M.Sc. degree in chemistry with at least 7 years of relevant work experience in the synthesis and manufacture of active pharmaceutical ingredients and/or Ph.D. degree in chemistry with at least 3 years of relevant work experience in the synthesis and manufacture of active pharmaceutical ingredients
Hands-on experience in the development and scale-up of a variety of synthetic organic transformations at multi-kilogram scale
Practical experience in the techniques and procedures of synthetic organic
chemistry including spectroscopy, chromatography, handling air-sensitive agents,
etc
Excellent interpersonal skills with an ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary
team, with the ability to manage, prioritize and coordinate activities with
cross-functional departments
Self-motivated with strong organizational and time management skills
Hands-on experience with a variety of analytical spectroscopic equipment such
as HPLCs, GCs, for organic reaction analysis
Clear writing and communication skills
Demonstration of previous project managerial experience and team leading
experience
Ideally has a working knowledge of cGMP principles and the ability to apply them
Experience with a range of chemical calculations
Computer literacy including practical experience with Excel, Word, Powerpoint,
Outlook, Chemdraw or equivalent software
A careful observer dedicated to maintaining comprehensive experimental records
including diligent lab notebook recording of work
Demonstration of understanding the mechanisms of reactions and reaction
kinetics as a predictor of control and scale up
A working knowledge in the use of factorial experimental design software to aid
process optimization is preferred
Responsibilities:
Develop and validate new process chemistry or evaluate and validate
established process chemistry for synthetic organic chemical manufactures
Scale-up of new products from gram quantities to multi-kilo to tonnage scale
manufacture in our Kilo Lab, Pilot Plant and Commercial Products Facilities
Take on Project Leader responsibilities and management of workload vs. project
timelines to complete projects on time, within budget and achieving the desired
quality
Generate insights into chemical reactions and procedures under development
Obtain scale-up kinetic and thermodynamic experimental data defining
controlling variables by performing periodic removal, quenching (if required) and
analysis of aliquots
Conduct thorough literature reviews to identify and assess feasibility of proposed
route(s) of synthesis
Write and present development reports to upper management and clients
Verbal interaction with clients to discuss scientific results
Prepare novel compounds and characterize them using modern spectroscopic
tools (IR, NMR (1H, 13C,1-D,2-D), UV-Vis, MS)
Generate gram quantities of high-purity samples of key intermediates, most often
by chromatography, recrystallization, sublimation, and/or fractional distillation
Maintain laboratory records in accordance with accepted good laboratory
practices, SOPs, and regulatory requirements
Teach and mentor junior staff with possibility of supervisory management role
Assist with the preparation/review of regulatory and controlled documentation
Adhere to current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP)
Actively support the Environmental, Health & Safety programs of Norac Pharma
to ensure employee, plant and community safety and security
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.
Ensure compliance with OSHA and other safety regulations (e.g., hot work, lock out tags, confined work space, etc.).
Analytical Equipment at Norac Pharma:
Waters and Agilent HPLC’s with a variety of detectors (UV-Vis, PDA, Refractive
Index, Charged Aerosol)
UPLC with Q-TOF Mass Spectrum
Bruker 400MHz NMR
Inductive Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS)
Gas Chromatography (Direct Injection, Head-Space GC, Mass Spectrum)
Malvern Mastersizer for particle size analysis
Air Jet Sieve methodology for particle size analysis
X-Ray Powder Diffraction
Polarimeter
Total Organic Carbon analyzer for fast turnaround for cGMP equipment cleaning
verification
Dynamic Vapor Sorption for determining solvent uptake
Thermal Gravimetric Analysis
Differential Scanning Calorimetry for thermal analysis of samples
Morphologi for particle size and shape analysis and visualization
Ion Chromatography
UV determination
Karl Fischer for water determination
Infrared analysis
Autotitrators
Process Research and Development Equipment at Norac Pharma
ReactIR for real time in-situ reaction monitoring
Teledyne ISCO for chromatographic separations
Focused Beam Reflectance Measurement for real time in-situ crystallization
monitoring
RC-1 calorimetry
Advanced Reactive System Screening Tool for process safety assessment
EasyMax for automated reaction execution and monitoring
Fisher-Porter bottles
Asynt multi-tube autoclave for pressure reaction screening
Multi-well reaction blocks for quick screening of reactions
Autoclaves for scale up of pressure reactions
Optical microscope
Standard laboratory equipment for reaction monitoring (e.g. J-Kem
thermocouples and vacuum controllers, overhead stirrers, jacketed reactors,
heater/chiller units, rotary evaporators etc.)
To apply please submit resumes to resumes@noracpharma.com
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