R&D Director

CK Science are seeking an R&D Director to join a Cutting-Edge, Super-Exciting, Advanced-Materials-Based start-up in the Heart of Miami, on a permanent full-time basis. 

Location: Miami, FL

Salary: $150,000-$160,000

[Opportunities for promotion and commensurate compensation increase based on performance.]

The ideal candidate will be a Senior or Principle Scientist with 5 years of industry experience, with 2-3 years of experience in a supervisory position, who is looking for the next step up in their career. This position will have huge involvement in the science work in a hands-on role, alongside providing leadership and mentoring the team of bright junior scientists.

Role & Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage a growing team of research scientists across all product lines.
• Ensure safe conditions and operation of laboratory.
• Ensure project plans are developed and implemented; assist team to overcome obstacles and adjust plans as needed; communicate progress against milestones.
• In collaboration with management, develop capital and expense budget to support project plans; monitor spending against budget.
• Manage portfolio of projects across team to ensure balancing of resources and progress against plans. 
• Collaborate with scientific team, business development, and management in the development of business cases for new projects, go to market strategies, supplier relationships, and other key commercial activities.
• Actively participate and direct scale-up and product development efforts interacting with external partners.
• Collaborate with management team on developing go-to-market strategies, supplier relationships, and other key commercial activities.
• Director of R&D will report to the President Materials

Requirements:

• Candidates should be highly motivated and hard-working individuals who will thrive in a collaborative and fast-paced work environment.
• Candidates should have experience directly supervising and managing teams in a lab environment and proven leadership skills.
• Demonstrated capabilities to progress R&D through scale-up and prototyping, such as process engineering or comparable experience. 
• Candidates should be able to anticipate scale-up/prototyping challenges and formulate strategies to efficiently resolve barriers to scale-up.
• Candidates should also be capable of independent research, data analysis, critical thinking and next step experimental design.
• Excellent spoken and written communication skills are critical as our candidate must be able to present results to technical and non-technical strategic partners in a concise and compelling manner. 
• Candidates should have a PhD (or equivalent) preferred from a leading university.  Academic studies or equivalent experience should include a focus in chemistry, chemical engineering, materials science and/or physics.
• 5+ years experience in a related field, including 2+ years experience in a supervisory capacity.

Apply:

Entitlement to work in the US is essential. For more information or to apply for this R&D Director position, please contact the US team on +1 (617) 6922948 or alloyd@ckscience.com. Please quote job reference 92003 in all correspondence.