Senior Scientist - Fermentation

Title: Senior Scientist - Fermentation

Location: North East

Employment Type: Permanent

Salary: £35,000 - £48,000

We are looking for an experienced Fermentation Scientist to join a highly innovative organisation tasked with bringing the UK at the forefront of innovation across a wide range of scientific sectors including biotech, agri-tech, pharma and biopharma. Joining an expanding team, the main responsibility for the Senior Scientist will be to provide Fermentation leadership to ensure that

products from food and feed processes can be delivered safely and compliantly, acting as the

technical lead in the timely delivery and realisation of a variety of projects, (small and medium scale

projects, and projects of some complexity).

Responsibilities:

• Act as the primary technical contact and decision point within the pilot plant for the operations and fermentation.
• To support the development of scalable fermentation processes from shake flask to 10000 litre reactor scale. To work closely with commercial clients to de-risk the scale-up of fermentation-based
• To support the set-up, operate and monitor microbial fermentation processes under batch,fed-batch and continuous conditions following predefined protocols.
• To work in partnership with colleagues to modify or reconfigure bioreactor vessels and associated equipment to define the process parameters necessary to achieve optimal production conditions.
• To support the routine maintenance of fermenters, identifying and escalating issues which may impact their performance and availability.

The successful Senior Scientist must possess significant, technical expertise in fermentation and demonstrate compelling evidence of complex technical problem solving. They will need to hold exhibit professional mastery of principles and practices in fermentation gained through career to date in area of specialism. They should be able to actively demonstrate in-depth technical and theoretical knowledge of at least one area and be viewed as a specialist in this area by peers: (1) Fed-batch fermentation; (2) continuous fermentation; or (3) precision-fermentation.

Interested? Or know someone who will be?

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If you are interested in this role and require more information, please contact Shazad Arshid on or email

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