Fermentation lead

Miller Ag is seeking a Fermentation expert for our client to lead a team of scientists and engineers to successfully drive our pipeline projects through the development phase and into production.

Fermentation lead

Specific Responsibilities

·         Serve as the Fermentation Team lead, providing guidance to the fermentation team to ensure project success and to manage equipment and personnel resources 

·         Serve as an industry expert in understanding the critical path to optimizing fermentation processes  to be robust, economical and commercially viable.

·         Understand and develop economic models to evaluate processes and guide development efforts.

·         Possess in-depth process knowledge and act as an expert in understanding pilot scale manufacturing capabilities and limitations. 

·         Identify and manage pilot plant capacity to meet the technical and regulatory needs of the projects as they move through the development phase and into production.  

·         Liaise with the Production Team on product specific Tech Transfer packages

·         Liaise with the Regulatory Team on product registrations

·         Develop a long term growth plan for our Fermentation team, to include required people/skillsets and associated technical capabilities

·         Support team members on fit for purpose experimental design to address specific project needs in an efficient and direct manner.  May include hands on experimental support as needed

·         Build and monitor annual team budgets as needed per company policy and procedures

·         Serve as the technical expert on Project Teams and translate Project goals into action plans for the Fermentation team

·         Integrate information from Research, Development and Commercial teams into coherent Functional objectives for Fermentation.  Anticipate future needs and build the necessary technical capabilities.

·         Willing to travel as needed.  Travel commitment <40%

Required Skills, Competencies and Behaviors

·         Highly collaborative, communicative and transparent.

·         High emotional intelligence and well-developed conflict management skills.

·         Flexibility to assume a variety of roles in our rapidly developing company.

·         Ability to manage ambiguity in self and others in a highly dynamic working environment

·         Strong leadership skills including exceptional technical and interpersonal skills to effectively work with a diverse group of people across interdisciplinary teams. 

·         Strategic planning, especially the ability to assess organizational needs/gaps and propose the most effective solutions.

·         Ability to communicate effectively, both written and verbal, at all levels of the organization.

·         Ambition to continue learning the most current developments in the fermentation industry and bioprocessing.

·         Experience with fermentation scale-up including, upstream and downstream processing at pilot scale.

·         Direct experience with successful tech transfer to production scale.

Qualifications (Education and Experience)

·         Degree in Chemical Engineering, Biochemistry, Microbiology or related field and relevant experience in developing fermentation processes.  PhD with 5+ years experience or MS with 8+ years experience or BS with 10+ years experience.

Our Client will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this role, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.