Formulation Development Chemist

Company Details

Novocol Pharma is a growing contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), specialized in sterile injectable cartridges and combination product manufacturing. We strive for excellence and customer‑centricity to deliver value to global pharmaceutical clients through contract services for drug development and commercial manufacturing. With over 40 years in operation, our team of 600 employees and modern facilities, located in Cambridge, Ontario, provide a personalized and responsive experience for our customers. We are focused on serving our strategic partners and patients with quality, integrity, and value.

We are proud members of the Septodont group of companies. Septodont is a pharmaceutical and medical device company with a global leadership position in dental pain management, and our Cambridge facility serves as a significant manufacturing site with high‑volume dental anesthetic production for a global customer base. We have an opportunity for a Formulation Development Chemist.

Job Summary

The Formulation Development Chemist is accountable to and interacts with the Pharmaceutical Development Manager. The formulation development chemist supports all activities required to develop, optimise, scale‑up and technology transfer of a stable formulation and its associated manufacturing process, to make it suitable for commercial production as well as subsequent product launch and commercialization activities. The projects include those from internal and external customers.

Responsibilities

• Provides leadership within the pharmaceutical development team, as well as across functional project tactical team.
• Develops complex new formulations and their corresponding manufacturing processes that are scalable to commercial production setting.
• Sources the excipients used in formulation and the API that meet the regulatory requirement.
• Conducts experiments with regards to various types of packaging components for product package development.
• Manufactures pharmaceutical development lab batches : weighs, mixes and blends raw materials to produce experimental trials and small‑scale batches for solutions and semi‑solid formulations.
• Records observations on product and process characteristics during experimental trials and proposes changes to improve compounding procedure based on observations.
• Tests physical parameters for formulated and brand‑leader product for laboratory, scale‑up process samples and others as required.
• Designs and conducts accelerated or long‑term experiments to establish the physical stability of the formulation.
• Sets up and cleans all equipment including mixers, homogenisers and tanks.
• Authors the formulation / processing development protocol and report, writes‑up and signs off various documents such as compounding batch record and demo batch study protocol.
• Assists in scale‑up and technology transfer from pharmaceutical development batch scale to commercial process and trains production operators.
• Assists with trouble‑shooting from process development / scale‑up to production of stability batches.
• Develops and writes SOPs related to formulation work for general lab use.
• Provides technical support and expert advice to production during manufacturing of stability batches.
• Assists in investigating process deficiencies of existing formulations to determine the cause and recommends solutions for improvement.
• Attends external customer project meetings and contributes to the technical discussion.
• Follows GMP and regulatory requirements and ensures quality standards are met.
• Follows and supports all safety guidelines and regulations.
• Demonstrates the Company Mission, Vision and Values Statements, policies and current standard business practices.
• Performs other related duties as required.

Qualifications

Education

Experience

What we offer

We are committed to diversity and inclusion, and thank all applicants in advance; however, we will be corresponding only with those selected for an interview.

In accordance with the Ontario Human Rights Code and the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, we are committed to providing an inclusive and barrier‑free recruitment and selection process.

Recruitment fraud – please be aware. Novocol Pharmaceutical of Canada Inc. will never ask for banking information, money or any personal information up front. We will only respond to official applications submitted through our careers site and will only use official corporate e‑mail addresses (septodont.com or novocolpharma.com) to communicate with applicants. Should you be contacted without submitting an application, please delete the message and advise your e‑mail provider.

Internal Job Posting Grade 9. The due date for internal applicants to apply for this role is November 18, 2025.

Contract type

Permanent

Seniority level

Entry level

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Research, Analyst, and Information Technology

Industries

Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

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