Associate Scientist Process Development

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Job description

Job Description

Position Overview:

Catalent hires people with a passion to make a difference to the health of millions of people globally. Your expertise, coupled with Catalent's advanced technologies and collaboration with thousands of innovative pharmaceutical, biotech and healthcare companies, will help bring life-enhancing products to the people you know and love. Your talents, ideas and passion are essential to our mission; to develop, manufacture and supply products that help people live better, healthier lives. Interested in learning more about life at Catalent? Start here

Catalent is a global, high-growth, public company and a leading partner for the pharmaceutical industry in the development and manufacturing of new treatments for patients worldwide. Your talents, ideas, and passion are essential to our mission: to help people live better, healthier lives.

The Associate Scientist - Purification Development's primary role is to design, execute and analyze laboratory and pilot scale experiments for drug substance process development and/or to support tech. transfer activities to GMP DS manufacturing.

This position works days; Monday - Friday

Catalent is committed to a Patient First culture through excellence in quality and compliance, and to the safety of every patient, consumer and Catalent employee.

The Role

• Leading development work for and applying technical knowledge of projects in order to develop robust processes that scale effectively to GMP manufacturing as needed
• Designing, executing and interpreting internal and external client experimental plans including DOE; Troubleshooting experiments
• Guiding Assistant and Associate Scientists with troubleshooting and experimental design
• Acting as project lead, including preparing and presenting data to clients informally and formally, with support of Senior or Principle Scientists as necessary
• Maintaining necessary documentation in a lab notebook; Authoring and reviewing technical reports
• Supporting process transfer into manufacturing by providing written and oral communication of the process
• Training of manufacturing associates; Review and approval of documentation, and on-floor support

The Candidate

• Bachelor's degree in Biochemistry, Biomedical Engineering or related discipline preferred plus 3-5 years of relevant experience in the biopharmaceutical industry
• MS in Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Microbiology, Chemical Engineering or related discipline or equivalent work experience plus 0-2 years direct relevant experience in the biopharmaceutical environment
• Knowledge of laboratory procedures and operations gained through work experience
• Knowledge and experience with current approaches to purification of biologics including monoclonal antibodies
• Excellent written, oral and organizational skills
• Must be results-oriented with a hands-on attitude in a fast-paced environment

Why You Should Join Catalent

• Competitive medical benefits and 401K
• 19 days of PTO + 8 Paid Holidays
• Dynamic, fast-paced work environment
• Opportunity to work on Continuous Improvement Processes

Catalent offers rewarding opportunities to further your career! Join the global drug development and delivery leader and help us bring over 7,000 life-saving and life-enhancing products to patients around the world. Catalent is an exciting and growing international company where employees work directly with pharma, biopharma and consumer health companies of all sizes to advance new medicines from early development to clinical trials and to the market. Catalent produces more than 70 billion doses per year, and each one will be used by someone who is counting on us. Join us in making a difference.

Catalent is committed to the health and safety of its employees, visitors and the customers and patients we serve. As a result of the global pandemic, we have modified many of our recruitment and on-boarding processes to maintain everyone's safety. The Human Resources teams will communicate all necessary safety processes and procedures throughout each stage.

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