Co-op Student, Medicinal Chemistry

3 weeks ago

Vancouver, Canada Zymeworks Full time

Job Req ID: 1180- Location: Vancouver, BC, CAN- Additional Locations: N/A- Department: Medicinal Chemistry- Job Type: Fixed Term- Workplace Type: On-Site**Co-op Student, Medicinal Chemistry**:
**Company Description**

**About the Position**

The hourly wage for this co-op position is $21.00 CAD.

**Key Responsibilities**:
The student is expected to participate in the generation of new drugs and drug-linkers for evaluation as potential antibody-drug conjugate platform technologies:

- Reproduces or adapts established synthetic procedures to transform chemical species into target payloads, intermediates, and drug-linkers
- Monitors reaction progress using HPLC-MS and TLC
- Uses appropriate purification techniques (wet work-up, flash chromatography, prep-HPLC-MS) to isolate desired chemical products
- Characterizes isolated materials to confirm structure and purity (NMR, HPLC-MS)
- Performs experiments, interprets, and analyzes data, and prepares presentations for group meetings
- Administrative duties such as contributing to the chemical inventory system
- Conducts all activities in accordance with scientific standards, OS&H regulations and established Zymeworks policies and practices
- Adheres to Zymeworks standard procedures for generating, documenting, and archiving data, maintaining an accurate, up-to-date electronic notebook
- Contributes to a safe and highly efficient laboratory environment through ordering of consumables, regular maintenance of reagent inventory, preparation of solutions, stocking of consumables, and maintaining a clean working environment

**Education and Experience**:

- Currently enrolled in an undergraduate program in Chemistry and successful completion of Organic Chemistry courses (2nd Year) with lab.
- Availability for an 8-month co-op term is required.
- Experience with multi-step synthetic chemistry over and above the teaching lab is preferred.

**Skills and Abilities**:

- Proven interpersonal skills with the ability to work collaboratively as a member of cross-functional team. Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships
- Good organizational skills and the ability to work effectively in a high-paced, fast-changing environment. Results-oriented mindset
- Experience with multi-step synthetic chemistry over and above the teaching lab is required
- Experience with characterization of small molecules using NMR and HPLC-MS and some familiarity with operating these instruments outside of the teaching lab is preferred.
- Excellent oral and written communication capabilities Good computer skills particularly with MS Office suite and ChemOffice (ChemDraw)

**Why Work for Us?**
- Innovation. Act with Integrity. Collaboration. Embrace Diversity. Care_
We come from many countries, cultures, races, ethnicities, abilities, and nationalities. We bring our passions including singing, biking, swimming, dancing, cooking, volunteering, parenting, coaching, and much more We are proud of our nearly equal balance of men and women and strengthened by our non-binary and transgender team members. Every employee belongs.

**How to Apply**
- Date: Apr 26, 2024

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