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The Opportunity

• Bring your experience in variety of chromatography techniques to work
  
• Collaborate regularly with multi-disciplinary teams of scientists
  
• Join CSIRO – Australia’s National Science Agency – and grow your research career!

As an Analytical Chemist, you’ll be a part of the Materials Characterisation and Modelling Program at CSIRO providing routine and specialised chromatography support to researchers.
You will be responsible for contributing to delivering team outcomes and will require working closely with internal and external clients analyse sampled and write reports. To excel in this role all you require is technical skills, adaptability, and a willingness to learn new skills and build new capabilities to ensure the high standard of our characterisation facilities.

Your duties will include:

• Designing and performing routine laboratory analyses by designing new processes by adapting existing techniques to meet special circumstances or undertaking modifications to methods requiring some innovation.
  
• Performing non-routine analyses using a range of techniques, often working on a number of parallel and competing tasks.
  
• Working with discretion to decide on the timing of operations within the work team’s plan and planning ahead to meet experimental and/or project demands.
  
• Independently testing possible solutions to resolve identified problems.
  
• May have responsibility for maintaining laboratory consumables and scheduling and instructing staff in the use of shared equipment.
  
• Maintaining confidentiality when dealing with commercially sensitive information.
  
• Performing routine maintenance on equipment, as well as fault-finding and repairs, and liaising with vendor service engineers.
  
• Maintaining safe working practices when handling a range of chemicals and cryogenic materials.

Location: Clayton, VIC

Salary: AU$68k - AU$86k plus up to 15.4% superannuation

Tenure: Specified term of 3 years / Full-time

Reference: 95284

To be considered you will need:

• Relevant bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant work experience in analytical chemistry or separation science.
• Demonstrated experience in chromatography method development, for both liquid (eg UHPLC, HPLC) and gas chromatographies. Experience in taking analytical methods and successfully scaling up to preparative (multigram) separations.
• An understanding of the data produced by the various techniques and the ability to determine whether the results are expected, accurate, and correct, and to troubleshoot where they are not.
• Demonstrated experience in the routine maintenance and ad hoc repairs of complex scientific equipment, in particular, chromatography systems.
• Demonstrated experience in the production of standard operating procedures and training programs along with supporting technical, operational, training, and safety documentation.
• Experience working under a quality management system in a regulated environment, such as GLP/GMP, ISO9001, ISO17025, etc. Experience developing analytical methods and associated documentation, including design, validation, execution, and reporting.

For full details about this role please review the Position Description.

Eligibility

Applications for this position are open to Australian/New Zealand Citizens or Australian Permanent Residents only. Appointment to this role is subject to provision of a national police check and may be subject to other security/medical/character requirements.

Flexible Working Arrangements

We work flexibly at CSIRO, offering a range of options for how, when and where you work.

Diversity and Inclusion

We are working hard to recruit people representing the diversity across our society, and ensure that all our people feel supported to do their best work and feel empowered to let their ideas flourish.

About CSIRO

At CSIRO Australia's national science agency, we solve the greatest challenges through innovative science and technology. We put the safety and wellbeing of our people above all else and earn trust everywhere because we only deal in facts. We collaborate widely and generously and deliver solutions with real impact.

CSIRO is committed to values-based leadership to inspire performance and unlock the potential of our people.

Join us and start creating tomorrow today!

How to Apply

Please apply on-line and provide a cover letter and CV that best demonstrate your motivation and ability to meet the requirements of this role.

Applications Close

14 January 2024, 11:00pm AEDT