Senior Synthetic Chemist

- Regular/Permanent

- USA / Texas

- Remote Options

Welcome to Orano

Helping to meet current and future challenges to preserve our world and build the world of tomorrow while taking care of everyone's health is stimulating for you. For us too. By joining the Orano Group, a leading international player in the nuclear industry, you are in the right place.

Every day we work to produce efficient low-carbon energy, to fight global warming, to find solutions that save natural resources, and to contribute to progress in health.

Our strengths? Across the entire fuel cycle, we have extensive expertise in cutting-edge technologies, safe, high value-added products and services, and a strong capacity for innovation. All of these factors reflect the strong skills of our 17,000 employees, whom we are constantly striving to develop. With their different backgrounds and experience, they are proof of our openness to all talents. They share the same ambition: to give nuclear energy its full value.

Job description

Orano Med Theranostics

Are you passionate about ensuring the highest standards in pharmaceutical manufacturing? Do you thrive in a fast-paced, detail-oriented environment where your work directly impacts clinical trial success?

Join our team as a Senior Synthetic Chemist and play a vital role in safeguarding the integrity of raw materials and sterile drug products. Are you seeking your next challenge as a Senior Synthetic Chemist? If so, this is your chance to grow within a dynamic, mission-driven organization that’s transforming oncology from the inside out.

The Synthetic Chemist is responsible for manufacturing products inside a traditional chemistry lab. These products support the business catalog, custom synthesis business, as well as the GMP business. Key responsibilities include developing methods to synthesize compounds, providing internal technical guidance, proposing solutions to complex chemistry problems, and acting as a backup for chemists, as needed.

Key Responsibilities

Synthetic Knowledge:

- Research and design multi-step synthetic routes for targeted compounds

- Fundamental familiarity with classic reactions mechanisms and principles

- Optimize reaction conditions and troubleshooting synthetic challenges

- Characterize products and identify impurities using NMR, LC-MS, LC-QTOF, and related techniques

Laboratory Skills:

- Perform extractions, crystallizations, and chromatographic separations (normal and reverse phase)

- Operate and maintain standard chemistry equipment (rotary evaporators, hydrogenation apparatus, chromatography systems, high-vacuum systems, overhead stirrers, etc.)

- Maintain accurate laboratory notebooks, records, and reports in compliance with company standards

Team Integration:

- Provides technical guidance to Macrocyclics team for problem solving

- Generates ideas for new compounds for radio imaging, radiotherapy, and fluorescent applications

- Collaborate with colleagues across project teams to ensure timely completion of deliverables

- Mentors and develop other chemists

Our Full-Time Benefits

- Competitive compensation

- Health, Dental, and Vision insurance – with generous employer contributions

- 401(k) with employer matching and contribution amounts

- Life insurance and Short- and Long-Term Disability insurance provided by the company

- Generous Paid Time Off and holiday schedules

- Numerous Training and Development opportunities

- and more…

Ideal qualifications

Education & Experience

Minimum Qualifications:

- Ph.D. Organic or Synthetic Chemistry, or other discipline with relevant industry experience

- M.S. in Organic or Synthetic Chemistry with 15+ years of relevant industry experience

Required Skills & Competencies:

- Strong synthetic chemistry skills with demonstrated understanding of reaction mechanisms.

- Hands-on experience with chromatographic separations and purification strategies.

- Familiarity with solvent solubility principles, extraction, and crystallization techniques.

- Exceptional analytical skills.

- Familiarity with the principles of coordination chemistry (preferred)

- Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot experiments and adapt to project needs.

Preferred Skills & Competencies:

- Familiarity with the principles of coordination chemistry, metal-ligand design, and complexation kinetics.

- Familiarity with quality systems and GMP protocols for clinical phase drug substances

- Experience handling and working with radionuclides/radiopharmaceuticals

Orano is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, citizenship, veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic predisposition or carrier status or any other characteristic protected by law.