IPL Biologicals - Project Manager - Probiotics

Manager for the Probiotic development and Agri-biologicals down streaming

Roles and Responsibilities :

Role for Probiotic project for human health:

- Hands on experience on the probiotics culture handling, Isolation and purifications of Probiotic strains from natural source such as fermented and beverages.

- Experience in developing Bacillus spore, Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium probiotics for humans health.

- Well verse with the probiotic production techniques i.e. Fermentation, Freeze drying & and spray drying.

- Must have knowledge and experience in determining the Probiotic safety (phenotypic and genotypic) and Probiotic efficacy (Pre-clinical & clinical).

- Develop Methods and assays to evaluate various food and beverage applications of probiotic products.

- Hand on experience on the identification, lab scale cultivation/production of sporulating Probiotic bacterial culture for human health application. Knowledge on anaerobic culture handling and cultivation is preferred.

- Must have knowledge and experience in registering probiotic products in Indian marker and overseas markets.

Role for Probiotics like Agri Biologicals down streaming project:

- Well verse with the probiotic production techniques i.e. Fermentation, Freeze drying & and spray drying.

- Experience in the upstream, shake flask technology, fermentation, product formulation for microbial based products

- Experience in the upstream, shake flask technology, fermentation, product formulation for microbial based

- Process improvement of Fungal and Bacterial systems. Knowledge of Microbial testing, culture isolation, Characterization & purification etc.

- Handling all kind of fermenters like semi-automated and fully automated and 100 L to 10,000L fermenters.

- Expertise in various downstream processes like freeze drying, spray drying, centrifugation etc. at both lab scale and commercial scale.

- Responsible for end to end product development and commercialisation of products.

- Experience in down streaming processes to handle bacterial and fungal products for separation/concentration of biomass followed by drying techniques i.e. spray drying and freeze drying etc.

- Microbial encapsulation techniques to optimize down streaming process for microbial products for maximum viability followed by storage stability.

- Developing water soluble formulation of microbial based products.

Key Responsibilities :

- Managing a team of Scientists and execution of the projects related to probiotic development and agri-biologicals involving down streaming process optimization.

- Technology transfer to plant and validation of the same

- Project management, Technology commercialization

- Project proposal generation as per the agenda, techno commercial feasibility analysis of the same.

- Securing the IP of the technologies and products developed in the project scope.

Qualifications: Ph.D. in Microbiology/Biotechnology with the specialization of Human probiotic research and down streaming process optimization with 10 to 12 years of industrial experience.

- Experience in aseptic microbial techniques for handling pure single strain of anaerobic and aerobic bacterial and fungal cultures.

- Experience in bacterial and fungal phenotypic and genotypic identification techniques with the addition of whole genome sequencing technique along with bioinformatics tools.

- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, inclination to learn, grow and contribute for the success of organization.

Education - Ph.D. in Industrial Microbiology/ Biotechnology

Skills required :

- Well verse with the probiotic production techniques & various downstream processes like freeze drying, spray drying, centrifugation etc. at both lab scale and commercial scale.

- Hands on experience on the probiotics culture handling, Isolation and purifications of stains from natural source such as fermented and beverages.

- Knowledge and experience in determining the safety (phenotypic and genotypic) and efficacy of probiotic potential.

- Develop methods and assays to evaluate various food and beverage applications of probiotic products.