R&D Engineer
Apply NowCompany: Creative Alignments
Location: Austin, TX 78745
Description:
Join a dynamic team where you'll lead cutting-edge process innovation, scale lab discoveries to full production, and pave your path to an R&D leadership role in a fast-growing company!
Premier Research Labs
Premier Research Labs (PRL) is a company that specializes in producing high-quality dietary supplements, with a focus on providing pure, scientifically-backed nutritional products. Their offerings are designed for health professionals and individuals who prioritize holistic wellness and natural health. PRL emphasizes quality, using rigorous testing and sourcing high-grade ingredients to ensure the efficacy and safety of their products. The company is committed to advancing nutritional science and supports its clients with educational materials, product knowledge, and tailored health solutions.
What You Will Do
You will focus on learning PRL's processes, mastering lab-to-production scale-up techniques, and working with encapsulation equipment. You will navigate the challenges of scaling production while optimizing efficiency and streamlining operations. You will help drive tangible improvements in process optimization, technology transfer, and product development. This role presents an exciting opportunity to directly impact manufacturing innovation and lay the foundation for a future leadership role in R&D.
Qualifications:
You are a dynamic and hands-on Chemical Process Engineer with a strong background in lab-to-production scale-up, batch processing, and encapsulation equipment. You thrive on problem-solving, optimizing manufacturing efficiency, and are eager to grow into an R&D Manager role. With a solid foundation in Chemical Process Engineering, including lab work, batch processing, fluid dynamics, and material sciences, you bring expertise in process design, scale-up, and technology transfer from lab to production. Your experience, ideally in the pharmaceutical industry, has equipped you with the skills to tackle complex manufacturing challenges.
Responsiblities:
Premier Research Labs
Premier Research Labs (PRL) is a company that specializes in producing high-quality dietary supplements, with a focus on providing pure, scientifically-backed nutritional products. Their offerings are designed for health professionals and individuals who prioritize holistic wellness and natural health. PRL emphasizes quality, using rigorous testing and sourcing high-grade ingredients to ensure the efficacy and safety of their products. The company is committed to advancing nutritional science and supports its clients with educational materials, product knowledge, and tailored health solutions.
What You Will Do
You will focus on learning PRL's processes, mastering lab-to-production scale-up techniques, and working with encapsulation equipment. You will navigate the challenges of scaling production while optimizing efficiency and streamlining operations. You will help drive tangible improvements in process optimization, technology transfer, and product development. This role presents an exciting opportunity to directly impact manufacturing innovation and lay the foundation for a future leadership role in R&D.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's or advanced degree in Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, or a related field.
- Experience in chemical process engineering, particularly in lab work, batch processing, and scale-up.
- Strong expertise in fluid dynamics, material sciences, and process design.
- Hands-on experience with automatic and semi-automatic encapsulation equipment is a strong plus.
- Preferably from the pharmaceutical industry
- Demonstrated success in technology transfer and optimizing manufacturing efficiency.
- Strong problem-solving abilities and a passion for continuous improvement.
- Excellent communication skills with an extroverted personality and a good sense of humor.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, evolving environment with a long-term career trajectory toward R&D management.
You are a dynamic and hands-on Chemical Process Engineer with a strong background in lab-to-production scale-up, batch processing, and encapsulation equipment. You thrive on problem-solving, optimizing manufacturing efficiency, and are eager to grow into an R&D Manager role. With a solid foundation in Chemical Process Engineering, including lab work, batch processing, fluid dynamics, and material sciences, you bring expertise in process design, scale-up, and technology transfer from lab to production. Your experience, ideally in the pharmaceutical industry, has equipped you with the skills to tackle complex manufacturing challenges.
Responsiblities:
- Lead lab-to-production scale-up efforts, ensuring smooth transition from bench-top to full-scale manufacturing.
- Optimize batch processing and improve efficiency in fluid dynamics and material science applications.
- Work closely with automatic and semi-automatic encapsulation equipment to enhance production processes.
- Drive technology transfer from R&D to manufacturing, ensuring process integrity and scalability.
- Collaborate cross-functionally to streamline manufacturing workflows and identify areas for improvement.
- Troubleshoot and resolve process inefficiencies to enhance productivity and product quality.
- Support continuous improvement initiatives and contribute to the company's long-term R&D strategy.