Senior Application Scientist

Job description

Roquette is a family-owned global leader in plant-based ingredients and a leading provider of pharmaceutical excipients. Want to help us make a difference? Using plant-based resources, we collaborate with our customers and partners to imagine and offer ingredients to better feed people and treat patients. Each of our ingredients responds to unique and essential needs, and they enable healthier lifestyles. RESPONSIBILITIES: - Contribute to and lead creative application approaches utilizing Roquette excipients for hard capsules developments via generation of ideas and concepts to meet current and anticipated customer needs and to offer strong alternatives to competitive products. - Define and establish the appropriate specifications for the starting materials applied in preliminary development tests of a new hard capsule product. - Define and prepare Designs of Experiments (DoE) for the characterization of films on laboratory scale. Apply the expertise and knowledge of thixotropic suspensions and pseudoplastic materials. - Elaborate manufacturing pilot batch protocols, and work with the application lab coordinating bench work to support project goals. - Write technical development re...