Atomgrid
Website:
atomgrid.in
Job details:
🚀 We’re Hiring | Engineer – Technology Transfer
Location: Ankleshwar GIDC, Gujarat
Travel: PAN India, based on project and manufacturing requirements
Experience: 3–5 years
About AtomgridAtomgrid is building a new-age, asset-light, R&D-driven specialty chemicals platform, combining process innovation, market intelligence, and reliable contract manufacturing.
We operate across Agrochemicals, Surfactants & Emulsifiers, Flavours & Fragrances, and Pharmaceuticals, with a growing team of scientists, technology engineers, and project managers focused on delivering high-quality solutions, on time and at the right cost.
Founded by IIT-IIM alumni and backed by leading VCs, we’re building the manufacturing capabilities of a global specialty chemicals company from the ground up.
About the RoleWe are looking for an Engineer – Technology Transfer with strong hands-on experience in agrochemical formulations, process scale-up, and plant integration.
This is a highly execution-oriented role for someone who enjoys being at the intersection of R&D, manufacturing, and contract manufacturing partners — taking processes from the laboratory to commercial production and solving technical challenges on the ground.
What you’ll work on🔬 End-to-End Process Scale-Up
- Oversee the R&D process from laboratory scale through commercial production.
- Work closely with R&D teams on process optimisation, modifications, and pilot-scale trials.
- Lead scale-up from commercial pilot to plant-scale implementation, ensuring technical feasibility and process reliability.
🏠Plant-Scale Integration
- Work with manufacturing teams to optimise plant processes.
- Troubleshoot technical and operational challenges during scale-up and production.
- Ensure successful technology transfer and reliable implementation at manufacturing sites.
🤝 Job Work Site Management
- Act as the primary liaison with contract manufacturing partners.
- Manage day-to-day operations and resolve on-ground manufacturing challenges.
- Oversee raw material receipt, in-process quality checks, and finished goods dispatch.
- Represent Atomgrid on-site while ensuring process integrity and confidentiality.
- Track manufacturing trends, capacity utilisation, and new developments across key regions.
⚙️ Plant Operations & Manufacturing Oversight
- Oversee day-to-day plant and project activities across manufacturing sites.
- Ensure manufacturing activities follow Atomgrid’s Standard Operating Procedures.
- Track and report plant operations data on a daily basis.
- Conduct Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for deviations and share findings with management.
- Support commissioning and manufacturing activities across India.
What we’re looking for
- 3–5 years of hands-on experience in agrochemical formulations manufacturing.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering or an agrochemicals-related field.
- Strong exposure to contract/job-work manufacturing setups for herbicides, insecticides, and fungicides.
- Good understanding of agrochemical formulation processes, particularly EC, SC, WP, and WG.
- Familiarity with plant operations, technology transfer, and plant operation documentation.
- Ability to prepare and manage plant operation reports, BMR documentation, and site assessment reports.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Excellent communication and rapport-building skills with internal teams and external manufacturing partners.
- Dynamic, goal-oriented, proactive, and comfortable working in a fast-paced environment.
- A genuine “go-getter” attitude and willingness to travel extensively across India.
Why Atomgrid?
This is an opportunity to join a well-funded company at an early stage of its journey and play a foundational role in building its manufacturing capabilities.
You’ll get to:
- Work closely with a highly driven team building something ambitious in specialty chemicals.
- Take ownership of projects from R&D scale-up to commercial manufacturing.
- Work directly with manufacturing partners and solve real-world plant challenges.
- Be part of building Atomgrid’s manufacturing network from the ground up.
- Grow rapidly in a high-learning, high-responsibility environment.
Competitive compensation + performance incentives.
If you have strong agrochemical formulations and scale-up experience and enjoy working hands-on with manufacturing operations, we’d love to hear from you.
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