Characterisation Specialist

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**The Opportunity**:
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- **Collaborate regularly with multi-disciplinary teams of scientists**

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- **Join CSIRO - Australia’s National Science Agency - and grow your research career**

The role of Research Scientist staff is to conduct innovative research leading to scientific achievements that are aligned with CSIRO’s strategies. The Research Scientist may be engaged in scientific activity ranging from fundamental research to the investigation of specific industry or community problems. The Research Scientist will have the opportunity to build and maintain networks, play a lead role in securing project funds, provide scientific leadership and pursue new ideas and approaches that create new concepts.
- The Materials Characterisation and Modelling Program boasts analytical and characterisation expertise in areas from spectroscopy and chromatography to microscopy and X-ray science and has stewardship of over $40m of instrumentation.
- As part of CSIRO Manufacturing, our Materials Characterisation and Modelling Program specialises in complementary and wide-ranging analysis and characterisation fields and provides integrated expertise in chemical, physical and biological materials interrogation at the biology-materials science interface.

We are recruiting a research scientist to join the Molecular Interactions Team based at Clayton. You should have diverse yet complementary skills in spectroscopy, spectrometry, and chromatography, and expertise in the areas of the analysis and characterisation of organic chemicals, polymers, materials, or have experience in natural products isolation and structural elucidation.

**Your duties will include**:

- Working with clients of the Laboratories to provide appropriate support to ensure successful project outcomes.
- Keeping records of samples received, and analyses and separations undertaken, including in laboratory notebooks and/or LIMS systems as appropriate.
- Presenting results in a meaningful format, preparing reports for clients and/or writing scientific papers for publication.
- Undertaking and completing tasks under general direction, working with discretion to decide on the timing of operations within the Laboratory’s plan, and planning ahead to meet experiment and/or project demands, often working on a number of parallel and competing tasks.
- Employing safe working practices when handling a range of chemicals and cryogenic materials.
- Overseeing the activities of less experienced staff and providing guidance on experimental techniques and protocols as required.
- Working collaboratively as part of a multi-disciplinary, often regionally dispersed, research team to carry out tasks in support of CSIRO's scientific objectives.

**Location**: Clayton, VIC

**Salary**: AU$105,806 - AU$114,500 per annum plus up to 15.4% superannuation

**Tenure**: Indefinite / Full-time

**Reference**: 91610

**To be considered you will need**:
**Essential**
Under CSIRO policy only those who meet all essential criteria can be appointed.- A PhD (or an equivalent combination of qualifications and research experience) in a relevant field such as organic or analytical chemistry, or materials science, with extensive experience in characterisation techniques.
- Demonstrated experience in mass spectrometry and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy of organic compounds, polymers, or materials.
- Demonstrated experience in the determination and selection of the most appropriate analytical techniques to solve complex problems, with the ability to show how the complementary nature of the results obtained by different techniques will bring about this solution.
- An understanding of the data produced by the various techniques and the ability to determine whether the results are expected, accurate, and correct, and to troubleshoot where they are not.
- Demonstrated experience in the routine maintenance and ad hoc repairs and maintenance of complex scientific equipment, e.g. mass spectrometers, NMR spectrometers, chromatography systems.
- Demonstrated knowledge of the software required to operate analytical instrumentation and to process, interpret, and assess output from these techniques. This will be a combination of vendor and third-party software.
- Effective stakeholder management and delivery of high-quality analytical outcomes in an autonomous and timely manner.
- Preparation of research outcomes for reports, publications and presentations which has resulted in the continuation of research.
- Demonstrated experience in the production of standard operating procedures and training programs along with supporting technical, operational, training, and safety documentation. E