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Are you ready to accelerate your potential and make a real difference within life sciences, diagnostics, and biotechnology?

At Cytiva, one of Danaher’s 15+ operating companies, our work saves lives—and we’re all united by a shared commitment to innovate for tangible impact.

You’ll thrive in a culture of belonging where you and your unique viewpoint matter. And by harnessing Danaher’s system of continuous improvement, you help turn ideas into impact – innovating at the speed of life.

Working at Cytiva means being at the forefront of providing new solutions to transform human health. Our incredible customers undertake life-saving activities ranging from fundamental biological research to developing innovative vaccines, new medicines, and cell and gene therapies.

At Cytiva, you will be able to continuously improve yourself and us – working on challenges that truly matter with people that care for each other, our customers, and their patients. Take your next step to an altogether life-changing career.

We are currently looking for a Scientist with expertise within GC, GC-MS, and LC-MS (high resolving). As Scientist, you will be part of the Extractables & Leachables section within the R&D Start to Finish department at Cytiva in Uppsala, Sweden. The main mission of the Extractables & Leachables section is to execute extractables studies, including planning, extracting, analyzing, evaluating, and writing reports. We work with analytical techniques such as LC-QToF, GC-MS, TOC, etc., in a GMP-like environment. The position reports to the Senior Manager, Extractables & Leachables and is an onsite role.

This position will also be involved in supporting our quality control and production units, to support them with problem solving as well as method development for the analysis of substances related to the production of chromatographic resins, using GC and GC-MS.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

• Work closely in a team to perform extractables studies on mainly single-use bioprocess equipment.
• Run screening methods of organic molecules using mainly GC-MS and LC-QToF.
• Perform data evaluation including spectra interpretation and identification of “unknowns”.
• Perform analysis and method development for GC and GC-MS.
• Perform assignment analyses from the production and quality control departments.

The essential requirements of the job include:

• PhD or MSc with considerable experience within Analytical Chemistry or equivalent with focus on mass spectroscopy (GC-MS, LC-QToF).
• Previous experience of working with Extractables & Leachables topics is recommended.
• Quality oriented with an analytical attitude and a flexible, accurate, and structured way of working.
• Experienced in working within a quality framework, performing method validations, etc.
• English as a working language, Swedish is a plus.