Pact Group’s Contract Manufacturing Division manufactures across several operational sites and supplies a wide range of homecare and Personal-Care categories to all the major retailers and global FMCG brand owners.

About this opportunity

Based at Hornsby, our senior process development chemist will develop and optimize chemical processes for the manufacture of new existing cosmetic products on a large scale. You will conduct laboratory-scale experiments to determine the feasibility of new processes, and then scale them up for production, investigate and resolve any problems that arise during the production of chemical compounds, including issues related to quality, cost, and safety.

Your key responsibilities will be to:

• Support production personnel follow all relevant company procedures and filling instructions in consideration of Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) as well as Work Health & Safety (WH&S) principles to ensure products are produced to meet the required customer specification, are of a high-quality standard and are produced safely.
• Implement scale up from laboratory to pilot/fill trial and full-scale production ensuring GMP and Hygiene principles.
• Liaise with the Development Chemists and Packaging Engineer to ensure both formulations and packaging are being developed within production capabilities and identify where new equipment is required.
• Problem solve for reworking production batches and identify formulations restrictions and provide corrective actions and testing requirements.
• Assist Quality Control in the investigation of out of specification results and customer complaints.
• Update and create materials and BOM’s in SAP.
• Develop manufacturing and production processes by studying product requirements, researching, designing, modifying, testing manufacturing methods and equipment, and conferring with equipment vendors when necessary.
• Identify, plan, and implement key projects to expand process and product capabilities, improve quality, reduce waste, and increase productivity, utilisation & efficiency that will result in significant business improvement and customer satisfaction.
• Support corrective actions and initiate preventive measures for any reoccurrence of non-conformities relating to process, system, and material.
• Liaise with finance and other members of the organization in assessing, tracking, and reporting the financial benefit of a Cost Saving project.

Your skills and experience

To be successful in this role, you’ll have:

• Qualifications in chemical engineering, and may have worked in a variety of industries, including pharmaceuticals, petrochemicals, and consumer goods.
• strong knowledge of chemical engineering and process design, as well as laboratory experience and problem-solving skills.
• Effective communication of findings and recommendations to other team members and stakeholders.
• At least 3 -5 years prior experience in process chemist.
• Experience in Quality Management and working knowledge of Quality Management Systems
• Understanding of continuous improvement concepts including Six Sigma, Lean, value stream mapping
• Ability to respond to changing priorities.
• SAP Operational knowledge

Pact Group’s Contract Manufacturing Division manufactures across several operational sites and supplies a wide range of homecare and Personal-Care categories to all the major retailers and global FMCG brand owners.

About this opportunity

In this contract role, you will manage development projects and support the implementation of new products for the contract manufacturing division, across all Personal Care categories. From initial concept through to full scale production by initiating innovation, formulating new products, producing lab scale batches and supporting the new product development team.

Your key responsibilities will be to:

• Project manage all projects to completion within budget and agreed timelines
• Manage the formulation and development of new innovative personal care products and improve formulae and processes of existing products to enhance product quality and manufacturing efficiencies.
• Complete manufacture of laboratory scale batches for formulation development, customer sampling and stability testing.
• Oversee the implementation and progress of stability related testing of all new products for validating shelf life.
• Provide support to manufacturing NPD, technical/laboratory sales and marketing personnel as required.
• Liaise with new product development and marketing personnel, raw material suppliers and customers as required, facilitating the formulation and development process.
• Oversee the sourcing of raw materials both internally and externally for use in the formulation and development of new products and identifying alternate equivalent sources of supply when required.
• Develop and maintain professional relationships with customers and suppliers.
• Assisting site in the investigation of out of specification results and customer complaints.
• Develop tools and processes to support improvement of product development efficiency.
• In conjunction with relevant departments ensure compliance of new and adapted products to market regulations and any relevant quality and safety requirements.
• Contribute to the achievements of the department and company’s quality objectives.
• Support the Technical Lead chemist and co-operate with laboratory team members to achieve efficient output.
• Complete any other required tasks/assignments as directed. 

Your skills and experience

To be successful in this role, you’ll have:

• Experience in the personal care manufacturing industry
• Tertiary qualifications in a Scientific/Engineering field [e.g. Bachelor of Science (Chemistry), Chemical Engineering or equivalent] 
• Ability to develop a sound understanding of technical, IP and regulatory issues relating to product development in personal care.
• Ability to investigate and fully scope new products and make sound recommendations for execution.
• Ability to trouble-shoot and implement an investigative approach to a wide variety of technical, timeline-related challenges as required.
• Knowledge of Aust/NZ regulatory requirements for personal care products

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• Learn about and support the team on Product Quality (PQ) Standards, Manuals and Procedures 
• Record, investigate, and action PQ incidents to ensure that they are managed in accordance with standards
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• Learn about adequate processes to assure the quality of the bio components, renewable fuels, alternative fuels, and the biofuels in supply chain
   

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Duties include however, not limited to:

• Understanding of the processes in the preparation and analysis of samples by AAS , pXRF , XRF, ICP-OES and MS. 
• Validation of Methods for ICP-OES / MS, AAS, XRF and pXRF 
• Training of Laboratory staff on analytiucal instruments.
• Understanding of assay methods and recognition of sample types. 
• All functions to be performed in correct numerical order, while adopting QC requirements and avoiding potential contamination. 
• Complete QC and process paperwork adequately.