We are seeking a Growth and Improvement minded Technical Operations Upstream Support Laboratory Associate Specialist that can help drive our Strategic Operating Priorities.
Invent | Pursue the Most Promising Internal and External Science to Address Significant Unmet Medical Needs
Execute | Prioritize Resources Behind Our Key Growth Drivers (Oncology, Vaccines, Select Specialty Areas, Animal Health) While Optimizing Our Base Business)
Adapt | Develop Our People, Culture and Business Model to Evolve with a Dynamic Landscape
Diverse Talent | We are committed to providing an inclusive and welcoming environment with supporting leadership behaviors because having a high-performing, engaged workforce is critical to our ability to deliver innovative solutions to patients and customers around the world
Values and Standards | Our Steadfast Commitment to Our Values and Standards will Continue to Guide Us as We Take on New Challenges and Will Always be Fundamental to Our Success - They are a Competitive Advantage for Us
Summary, Focus and Purpose
The West Point Technical Operations Process Support Laboratories is searching for a highly motivated individual to join their upstream live virus vaccine (LVV) laboratory team supporting multi-product vaccine manufacturing processes.
This role is a laboratory based role collaborating with Operations, Quality, and other support groups to meet targeted manufacturing and product projects, including product/process investigation, continuous improvement changes, and strategic product/process initiatives.
Key Functions
Work Independently and as a Team member with Integrity | Precision | Accomplishment | Motivational Ambition | Respect | Inclusion.
Functioning as a key member of the upstream LVV technical operations Lab Team through execution of lab-scale experimental support looking at process optimization, investigational support and analytics
Functioning as a key team member to collaborate with manufacturing teams to support facility activities and to support area objectives.
Participating in technical support activities for licensed vaccines
Executing assignments against accelerated, critical-path timelines in a right-first-time manner
Education
B.S. or M.S. in Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Biology, Biochemistry or comparable discipline
Experience | Skills | Knowledge
Required
Hands-on experience in lab, pilot-scale, or manufacturing environment
Strong drive to learn.
Good team collaborator
Preferred
Experience with processing of pharmaceuticals and large molecule (vaccine or biologics)
Working knowledge of cGMPs
Strong problem solving skills and a hands-on approach to problem solving, with a bias towards going to see problems for oneself in the field.
Authoring technical documentation
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If you have been offered a separation benefits package, but have not yet reached your separation date and are offered a position within the salary and geographical parameters as set forth in the Summary Plan Description (SPD) of your separation package, then you are no longer eligible for your separation benefits package. To discuss in more detail, please contact your HRBP or Talent Acquisition Advisor.
Employees working in roles that the Company determines require routine collaboration with external stakeholders, such as customer-facing commercial, or research-based roles, will be expected to comply not only with Company policy but also with policies established by such external stakeholders (for example, a requirement to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to access a facility or meet with stakeholders). Please understand that, as permitted by applicable law, if you have not been vaccinated against COVID-19 and an essential function of your job is to call on external stakeholders who require vaccination to enter their premises or engage in face-to-face meetings, then your employment may pose an undue burden to business operations, in which case you may not be offered employment, or your employment could be terminated. Please also note that, where permitted by applicable law, the Company reserves the right to require COVID-19 vaccinations for positions, such as in Global Employee Health, where the Company determines in its discretion that the nature of the role presents an increased risk of disease transmission.
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basic lab chemicals and wasteRequisition ID: R277292
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