Senior Scientist, Formulations

Your core mission as Senior Scientist on the Formulation team is to provide technical expertise for the company’s current and future products by independently performing research and development activities to improve existing products, develop new products, or develop new product concepts and platforms for commercialization.

You will deliver on this mission by:

• Scoping projects to identify critical milestones and develop timeline estimates.
• Leading complex projects through the relevant R&D process levels and milestones to ensure the projects meet the established goals and timelines.
• Designing and executing experiments, analyzing results, troubleshooting challenges, and preparing detailed reports for assigned work, noting conclusions, and making recommendations to various audiences including Management, PDP Committees, product management and other members of the team through regular meetings, presentations, and technical reports.
• Delivering impactful results by performing research and development activities with the expected scientific rigor and the knowledge of an established professional in the field.
• Ensuring accurate calculations, making observations, and gathering complete and accurate data. Maintaining up‑to‑date working records, such as lab notebooks, sample reports and project summary files.
• Developing strategies and methods to test and achieve the deliverables of a project.
• Supervising, training, and mentoring junior staff on experiment design, methods, and data interpretation to facilitate advancement of departmental goals.
• Adhering to local, provincial, and federal legislation pertaining to company employment and health and safety policies.
• Demonstrating Vive’s corporate values in the performance of the work and interactions with others.

• Internally – Joint Health and Safety Committee , Product Development Chemistry , Research , Biology, Application Science, Process , Marketing, Business Development
• Externally – Service Providers , Suppliers , Consultants, Partners

• Take a lead role in assigned projects, internal and external, to ensure the projects meet timelines and goals. Maintain up‑to‑date records, such as lab notebooks, sample reports and project summary files by summarizing data, observations and conclusions, and writing detailed scientific reports as needed. Supervise junior staff. Complete other R&D tasks as assigned.
• Independently troubleshoot and advance projects including early‑stage product concepts or later‑stage prototypes using appropriate formulation techniques , experimental designs , testing, and analyses .
  Of particular interest for this role is work with aqueous formulations including O/W emulsions, suspension concentrates, and suspo‑emulsions.
• Perform routine bench‑scale formulation experiments including measurements of particle size, viscosity, pH, density, microscopy, zeta potential and storage stability . Less routine experiments could include soil columns, UV degradation screens, tank‑mix compatibility, and viability assays . Develop and utilize new test methods as required for unique product and platform concepts.
• Assist in scale‑up processes, potentially including at external manufacturing toller facilities as needed for later stage projects.
• Provide critical input into applied or advanced research and development projects to other teams (biology, regulatory, etc ) , on the design, development, characterization, and evaluation of new and existing products, and to new product concepts, systems and technologies.
• Act as a technical leader to the team, other functional groups and external partners through advanced knowledge in area of specialization. Provide training, mentorship, and technical support to junior staff and work closely with other scientists towards department goals and company objectives .
• Perform scientific activities with keen observation, accuracy of calculations, completeness of data and general adherence to prescribed methods.
• Follow all laboratory safety rules and regulations.
• Perform other job‑related duties, as necessary.

• University degree or equivalent in an applicable scientific…