ADVERTISEMENT FOR RECRUITMENT OF SCIENTISTS TECHNOLOGISTS AND ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT STAFF FOR BIOPROCESSING UNIT AT Dept of Biotechnology , Govt of india dated 20.10.2012 | Last date of application 15.11.2012

ADVERTISEMENT FOR RECRUITMENT OF SCIENTISTS TECHNOLOGISTS AND ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT STAFF FOR BIOPROCESSING UNIT AT Dept of Biotechnology , Govt of india dated 20.10.2012 | Last date of application 15.11.2012

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BIOPROCESSING UNIT

(An Autonomous Institute of Department of Biotechnology)

(Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India)

(at Knowledge City, Sector-81, Mohali, Punjab)

RECRUITMENT OF SCIENTISTS, TECHNOLOGISTS AND ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT STAFF

BY DIRECT SELECTION  or  ON DEPUTATION BASIS

(Advt. No. BPU-2/2012)

[Note: Completed Applications must be sent at New Delhi address: BPU Secretariat, A-254, 1st floor, Veera Tower, Defence Colony, Bhishma Pitamaha Marg, New Delhi-110024, India, to reach latest by November 15, 2012.]

Applicants (Indian citizens Only) from abroad can send the duly filled application as per prescribed format by email: bpusecretariat@gmail.com

Application format, details of the vacancies etc. can be downloaded from BPU website (www.bpu.res.in) or DBT website (www.dbtindia.nic.in) under heading "Vacncies"

The Department of Biotechnology, Government of India is establishing the BioProcessing Unit (BPU), an autonomous institute in the "Knowledge City", at Sector-81, SAS Nagar, Mohali (Punjab). This futuristic innovation institute of its own kind in the country would link the innovations and emerging technologies with entrepreneurs in the area of bioprocesses and bio-products. To realize its vision and steer its mission, the institute intends to recruit scientists, technologists, and administrative support staff as detailed below:

1. Associate Plant Manager (Technical Innovation, Process/Plant Design and Operation): PB-4 (`Rs. 37400-67000) Grade Pay of  Rs. 8700 (higher start within the scale is possible for a deserving case): One Post (Unreserved).

    

Age limit: *Below 55 Years.

     Essential Qualifications:

(a)    Educational: Ph.D. or First class (or equivalent) M.Tech./M.E. in Chemical Engineering/Chemical Technology/Processing Design Technology/Processing Plant Engineering/Food Engineering.

(b)   Professional Experience: Professional work experience in relevant areas such as above (a) at an institute or university or industry of repute for a period of at least 7 years for M.Tech. plus Ph.D. or 10 years for M.Tech./M.E., with evidence of leadership. The experience should be substantiated by consistent productivity/performance with respect to at least one of the following: (a) high impact SCI publications (b) competitive quality patents (leading to licensing, translation or tangible superiority in the relevant field) in chemical engineering/process engineering for bioproducts/semi-bioproducts, (c) demonstrated consultancy or other such projects executed in public or private sectors related to bioprocessing with specific and significant technological ingenuity  of contribution and outcome.

Desirable Qualifications: Possessing leadership in one or more of the following:

(i)                              Technical experience of designing, installing and running a processing plant particularly                  bioprocessing plant.

(ii)                            Experience of up-scaled production in a pilot plant beginning with bench                                         scale inputs/information/leads.

(iii) Experience of working in/for a chemical processing/bioprocessing based industry of repute with   consistent actual involvement in the   technology and/or process for product(s) generation.

(iv)              Patents/publications density around specific process(s) relevant to bioprocessing.

(v)                            Significant participation in designing/improving, installation and operation of a sizable                   translational facility for  specific agri-produce processing based product(s).

(vi)              Demonstrated ability of bulk production of phytochemicals, chemicals and other products from    biological materials.

Job Requirements: This is a leadership position to carry out assimilation of the existing technologies of diverse origin and translate them for up-scaled production considering all techno-economic aspects of the feed stock bio-resources, processing and the end product(s). The position bears the responsibility of technical execution and management of the processing plant (covering design, installation and operational domains). The position particularly attracts an experienced person with passion to development of lead knowledge and technology guided demonstration units of different production scales from diverse bio-resources of value added usage. The assignments could be dynamic in tune with the requirements of the institute from time to time.

2.  Processing Plant Engineer: (Chemical Engineering/Processing Technology):  PB-3 (`Rs. 15600-39100) Grade Pay of  Rs. 7600 (higher start within the scale is possible for a deserving case): One Position (Unreserved)

     Age limit: *50 Years.

     Essential Qualifications:

(a)    Educational: Ph.D. or M.Tech./M.E. in Chemical Engineering/Chemical Technology/Process Design/Process Engineering/Processing Technology/ Process Engineering/ Food Technology/Engineering.

(b)      Professional Experience: Professional work experience in relevant areas such as above at (a) in an institute or university or industry of repute of at least 5 years for M.Tech./M.E. plus Ph.D. or 8 years for M.Tech./M.E. degree holders, with evidence of leadership. The experience should be substantiated with demonstrated consistent productivity/performance with respect to at least one of the following: (a) high impact SCI publications related to chemical engineering/process engineering for bioproducts generation in bulk and/or (b) relevant bioprocess/bioproduct patents with strengths of licensing, translation or of tangible superiority in the field of competition and scope and/or (c) demonstrated consultancy or other such projects executed in public sector organizations or private sectors related to bioprocessing with significant technological ingenuity/ contribution and outcome.

Desirable Qualifications: Experience in one or more of the following:

(i)                              Process or product development patent portfolio relevant or related to agri-processing/bio-             processing.

(ii)                Consistent track-record of technical work of process translation/optimization/up-scaling                leading to quantifiable output in a reputed organization having R&D or innovational strength.

(iii)              Experience of working on separation/production process(es) or development/translation/up-          scaling of a process.

(iv) Innovation of processes/application of processes of linkage with/relevance to                                  industry/entrepreneurship/start-up companies

(v)                Experience of working in an industry of repute with production portfolio of chemical                    processing/bioprocessing based bulk products and with core involvement in the technology and    process of the product(s).

Job Requirements: This is a senior/lead innovational-cum-developmental engineering position with key focus on use of technological processes for production of up-scaled value-added products from the feed stocks of biological origin (agro/food/feed etc.). The position requires development and functionalization of general as well as an array of process/product-specific facilities, their usage for demonstration and delivery of quality products and their commercial perspectives. It also involves innovations on feed stocks to produce quality products from them. The position particularly attracts a creatively thoughtful person with passion to effectively undertake ground work and to deliver tangible results, keeping in view techno-economic and scalability considerations of the processes and products based on secondary agriculture. Understanding and implementation of quality controls and enabling production in a cGMP environment for the bulk products would also be required.

3. Scientist E or Scientist D (Production Chemist): For Scientist E: Pay Band-4: (Rs. 37400-67000  with Grade Pay of Rs. 8700); For Scientist D: Pay Band-3: (Rs. 15600-39100 with Grade Pay of Rs. 7600) One Post (Unreserved).

     Age limit: *Below 55 Years for Scientist E and *50 Years for Scientist D

     Essential Qualifications:

(a)    Educational: Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry or Chemistry with specialization (Thesis) in Organic Chemistry/Natural Product Chemistry

(b)   Experience: At least 10 Years for Scientist E and 8 Years for Scientist D experience in isolation of metabolites/biomolecules from natural resources (plants, microbes, animals) and their structure elucidation, quality control, with evidence of leadership manifested by one or more of the following:

(i)                  High quality publications in SCI journals

(ii)                            Quality patents

(iii) Results/leads in practice or pipeline of translation

(iv) Volume production of valuable metabolites from bio-resources

(v)                Biochemical or Chemical processes/technologies developed for transformation, semi-                     synthesis, recovery of compounds

(vi) Biochemical products of utility identified/advanced in quality

Job Requirement:

To develop and lead a team of chemical and biochemical processing researchers/technical workers/innovators with key focus on value-additive transformation of biomass, recruitment/validation of such processes for potential applications/products  related to agri-food,  agro-industry and agri-mass supply and agri-waste  scenario etc. Collateral activities expected are process economics, process scalability, process sustainability and product analysis/quality control, stabilization/stability evaluation. An inter-disciplinary orientation of thoughts and actions is also necessary for linkage/utility of the work and to perpetually serve the mandate of the institute. Other such bioprocessing relevant tasks may also be expected as per needs of the institute from time to time.

4. Scientist C (Microbiology/Fermentation)- Pay Band-3: (Rs.15600-39100 with Grade Pay Rs. 6600): One Post (Unreserved).

     Age limit: *45 Years

     Essential Qualifications:

(a)    Educational: Ph.D. in Microbiology with specialization (Thesis) in Food or Feed or Dairy Microbiology/Fermentation or M. Tech./M.E. in Fermentation Engineering/Fermentation Technology/Microbial Technology.

(b)   Research or Industrial Experience: Four Years relevant R&D experience in the area of translation of metabolic abilities of microbes or fermentation technology or engineering/industrial microbiology or enzyme technology in an institute or university or reputed industry. The experience should be substantiated by demonstrated output with respect to one or more of the following:

(a)        SCI publications and quality patents related to microbial fermentation based products and/or        microbial biotransformation.

(b)         Identified/Developed new/novel microbial species/strains of bio-production advantage

(d)         Experience of large scale maintenance, handling and processing of microbial cultures

(e)         Identification, characterization of microbial species, genetic transformations and    synthetic          biology

Desirable Qualifications:

ExperTangible outputs on applied aspects of microbes for bioprocessing with respect to development of value-added products of diverse nature/utilities originating from biological feed stocks and/or their preparations, downstream processing, bioreactor-aided production etc.

Job Requirement:

To collect/procure/develop/identify and use microbial cultures (including fungal, yeast, bacterial cultures) of bioprocessing advantage, fermentative cultures, downstream processing, up-scaled and optimized production through microbial metabolism/biotransformation, up-scaled isolation/production of enzymes from microbial cultures and other such bioprocessing relevant tasks, bioreactor aided production of valuable products.

5. Administrative Officer: Pay Band 3 (Rs. 15600-39100) with Grade Pay of Rs.6600/- One Post (Unreserved).

Age limit: *45 Years

Essential Qualifications: Graduate in any discipline and experience in administration/Accounts/Execution of stores and purchase processes and procedures as under:

For Deputation: The candidates holding analogous post or five years service on lower posts in the pay scale of Rs. 15600- 39100 in PB-3 with GP of Rs. 5400/- OR

The candidates having worked in the pay scale of Rs 9300-34800 in PB-2 with GP of Rs. 4600/- for at least 7 years or in the pay scale of Rs 9300-34800 in PB-2 with GP of Rs. 4800 and Rs. 15600-39100 in PB-3 with GP of Rs. 5400/- with total of 6 years service in administration, accounts, house-keeping, establishment matters with at least graduate qualification in any discipline

Direct recruitment: Graduate, preferably with MBA or Post Graduate diploma in Personnel Management, recognized course/training in Secretariat work or passed UPSC examination of Section Officers / Stenographer /Private Secretary /Stores Purchase Officer,  in the grade of Rs 15600-39100 in PB-3 with GP of Rs. 5400/-with five years experience or Rs 9300-34800 in PB-2 with GP of Rs.4600/- with seven years experience or Rs 9300-34800 in PB-2 with GP of Rs. 4800/- (four years) and Rs. 15600-39100 in PB-3 with GP of Rs. 5400/- (four years), thus with total of 8 years experience of administration, accounts and establishment work in a Govt. Office or a Public body/organization of repute.

Desirable: Knowledge of Govt. rules & Regulations, Computer Application / Management Information System, awareness of administrative workings, requirements, specialties etc. of scientific/technological/academic institutions/organizations.

Job Requirements:

Administration/Establishment, estate development/contractual matters, discipline, drafting of rules/regulations, office orders, academic/industrial matters, planning/holding internal and external interaction meetings, managing routine institutional services, looking after establishment & personnel matters, looking after the official business of other administrative staff, stenographic process, drafting of agenda / minutes, maintenance of confidential records and other relevant tasks as assigned by the CEO from time to time.

6. Stores and Purchase Officer Pay Band 3 (Rs. 15600-39100 with Grade Pay of Rs.6600/-): One Post (Unreserved).

Age limit: *45 Years

Essential Qualifications: Graduate qualification in any discipline with experience in administration, accounts, house-keeping, establishment matters, purchase as under:

For Deputation: The candidates holding analogous post OR

The candidate has worked in the lower post in the pay scale of Rs 15600-39100 in PB-3 with GP of Rs. 5400/- for at least five years or

Candidates with seven years service in the pay scale of Rs 9300-34800 in PB-2 with GP of Rs. 4600/-

Candidates in the pay scale of Rs 9300-34800 in PB-2 with GP of Rs. 4800 and Rs. 15600-39100 in PB-3 with GP of Rs. 5400/- with total of six years service in purchase, materials, stores, administration, accounts, house-keeping, establishment matters etc.

For Direct Recruitment: Management training in Secretarial work or passed UPSC examination of Section Officer/Stores Purchase Officer//Stenographer/Private Secretary in the grade of Rs.15600-39100 in PB-3 with GP of Rs. 5400/- for at least five years or

In the pay scale of Rs 9300-34800 in PB-2 with GP of Rs. 4600/- with seven years service or

In the pay scale of Rs 9300-34800 in PB-2 with GP of Rs. 4800 (four years) and Rs. 15600-39100 in PB-3 with GP of Rs. 5400/- (four years), thus, with total of eight years experience of Stores, keeping accounts in Stores work in a Govt. office or a Public Body/Organization.

Desirable: Knowledge of Govt. rules & Regulations, Computer Application / Management Information System, post-graduate diploma/degree in material management, awareness of working requirements, specialties etc. of scientific/technological/academic institutions/organizations

Job Description:

Holding the responsibility of stores / purchase, inventory management, physical stock verification, general administration of stores, personnel, secretary to various purchase committees, forecasting stores, time bound and efficient execution of assignments as per standard purchase procedures and provisions of the Government of India/autonomous institutes of the central government, enabling maintenance of the facilities and services, rate contractual procurement mechanisms in  a professional manner as required by the institute from time to time. To carry out any other works of the institute as per assignment/exigency.

7. Management Assistant: Pay Band 2 (Rs. 9300-34800 with Grade Pay of Rs. 4200/-): One Post (Unreserved)

     Age limit: *30 Years

Essential Qualifications:

Graduate with minimum 3 years experience in the pay band of Rs 5,200-20,200 in PB-1 with Grade Pay of Rs. 2,400/-

Desirable: Persons having training/experience in administration/finance/office management/secretarial work etc. and/or efficiently working with computers including usage of standard application software.

Selection Process:

1. The applications received against the advertised positions would be screened by a Screening-cum-Shortlisting Committee constituted for the purpose.
2. The candidates from amongst the eligible candidates would be short-listed by the Screening-cum-Shortlisting Committee on the basis of qualifications, nature and quality of experience etc.
3. If required a written test or other professional test(s) may be conducted by the institute for assessing the capability/intellect and/or professional competence and/or comparative evaluation for pe-screening before interview.
4. The Screening-cum-Selection Committee would make a decision as to the number of candidates to be recommended for calling for interview with respect to each position.
5. The short listed candidates would be called to appear for an interview before a Selection Committee for the final selection.
6. In the event of none of the interviewed candidates is found suitable for the position(s), the post(s) would not be filled.

General Conditions

1.      The date for determining the age, experience, qualifications etc. shall be the last date of receiving applications at BPU.

(*Age limit for candidates to be considered on deputation on foreign service terms is 56 years, as per Govt. of India rules, and upper age limit is relaxable for SC/ST/OBC/Women etc. as per Govt. of India rules)

2.      In addition to the usual pay & allowances as admissible vide 6th Pay Commission in the above scales, other benefits such as Leave Travel Concession, Medical expenses, House Rent Allowance, Transport Allowance, Telephone Expenses etc. are also available as per Government of India rules.

3.      Candidates on direct selection shall be governed by New Pension Scheme of Central Government made effective from 01-01-2004.

4.      The appointee would be on probation for a period of one year which may be extended or curtailed at the discretion of the Competent Authority. Further, continuation will also depend on candidate's performance during the initial period of five years.

5.      At the time of joining, the candidate will have to withdraw any other applications that he/she may have submitted elsewhere for employment.

6.      Application must be complete in all respects and as per the prescribed format that can be downloaded from website of Department of Biotechnology (www.dbt.nic.in) under 'Vacancies' or Bioprocessng Unit website (www.bpu.res.in)

7.      Applicants from abroad (Indian Citizen only) may also apply by email (bpusecretariat@gmail.com) by the last date of application.

The vital point information like designation, organization, previous employment profile, scale and band of pay and grade pay, type of pay scale like central Govt. (CDA) or Industrial (IDA) and equivalent CDA in case of later, nature of duties etc. must be given in full, failing which the application may be summarily rejected without any further