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As the global leader in the supply of positron emission tomography (PET) radiopharmaceuticals, SHS Radiopharma pioneered the commercial PET radiopharmacy model over 30 years ago—and continues to shape the future of molecular imaging.
Join us as a Technical R&D Scientist and help us shape the future of precision theranostics while advancing patient care.
The Technical R&D Scientist plays a key role in supporting the development and industrialization of PET radiopharmaceuticals, contributing to innovation, robustness, and compliance across the product lifecycle. Positioned at the interface between R&D, Quality, and Manufacturing, the role supports the translation of laboratory developments into scalable and GMP‑compliant solutions, while ensuring scientific rigor, operational reliability, and alignment with project and business objectives.
Location: Marseille (13)
Your role:
- Design, plan, and perform scientific experiments related to PET radiopharmaceutical manufacturing and/or Quality Control (QC) activities.
- Analyze, interpret, and evaluate scientific and technical data, draw conclusions, and report results internally.
- Actively contribute to team meetings and scientific/technical discussions.
- Ensure clear understanding of objectives and deliverables and deliver high‑quality laboratory work, proactively seeking support and coaching from the TRD Manager or technical experts when needed.
- Proactively communicate key issues, risks, or critical topics to the TRD Manager and relevant project stakeholders.
- Prepare accurate, structured, and compliant documentation in line with internal guidelines, and support documentation and literature reviews as required.
- Contribute to the transfer of analytical and/or manufacturing procedures in an international, multi‑site environment.
- Support process optimization and continuous improvement initiatives within assigned projects.
- Ensure proper maintenance of laboratory resources (equipment calibration and maintenance, method validation, consumables management).
- Maintain a clean, organized, and compliant workspace and ensure timely and accurate logbook completion.
- Strictly follow SOPs, GLP, GMP, safety standards, and AdAcAp Molecular Imaging / Siemens Healthineers guidelines.
Fixed term contract : 12 months
This role requires potential involvement in shift work (including night shift) as per project needs.
Your expertise:
- Master’s degree required in medicinal, organic, complexation and/or analytical chemistry; PhD and/or specialization in radiochemistry desirable.
- Minimum 2 years of proven laboratory experience as a principal scientist in R&D, within medicinal or industrial chemistry, pharmaceutical production, radiochemical and/or radiopharmaceutical development.
- Strong scientific and technical knowledge in synthetic, analytical and pharmaceutical disciplines, with knowledge of GMP production.
- Hands‑on experience with laboratory and analytical tools (HPLC, GC, TLC, etc.) and related software (e.g. Chromeleon, miniGITA).
- Awareness of safe handling of chemicals, hazardous materials and equipment.
- Desirable experience in covalent and/or complexation chemistry in the radiopharmaceutical field, including automated synthesis and GMP manufacturing processes, as well as GMP radiopharmaceutical production.
- Strong literature search, reporting and presentation skills.
- Professional English required (written and spoken); French desirable (site language).
- Autonomous, accountable and well‑organized profile, with a strong problem‑solving mindset.
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