Job Description

The Role:

Joining Moderna means advancing mRNA science to transform medicine. Work with exceptional global teams on a broad pipeline and build a career that makes a real difference for patients.

Moderna is strengthening its presence in Norwood, Massachusetts, a cornerstone of our manufacturing and operational excellence. Our Norwood campus translates mRNA science into scalable impact, supporting the global delivery of our medicines. We welcome talent ready to drive innovation and make a meaningful difference for patients worldwide.

In this role, you will execute critical environmental monitoring and utility sampling that directly supports the integrity of GMP manufacturing operations.
You will serve as a key quality partner across clinical and commercial production, ensuring sterility assurance through precise, compliant laboratory practices.

This individual contributor role offers the opportunity to deepen microbiological expertise while leveraging digital systems and gaining exposure to advanced data and AI-enabled technologies.

Here's What You'll Do:

• Conduct Environmental Monitoring activities (routine, in-process monitoring, and EMPQs) across manufacturing areas to ensure compliance and control.

• Perform critical utility sampling, including Water for Injection (WFI) and compressed gas systems, maintaining the highest standards of sterility assurance.

• Maintain laboratory equipment, ensuring calibration, readiness, and adherence to housekeeping standards within GMP environments.

• Author, review, and execute SOPs, protocols, and technical reports with a high degree of accuracy and compliance.

• Perform data entry, review, and trending within LIMS, contributing to data integrity and enabling advanced analytics and digital insights.

• Coordinate sample management and testing with internal and external laboratories, ensuring timely and accurate results.

• Troubleshoot laboratory equipment and test methods, driving continuous operational efficiency.

• Support quality systems processes, including deviations, change controls, and CAPAs, ensuring thorough documentation and resolution.

• Participate in internal and external audits, contributing to inspection readiness and continuous improvement initiatives.

• Train and expand capabilities in microbiology lab techniques related to critical utilities testing, including bioburden and endotoxin assays.

The key Moderna Mindsets you’ll need to succeed in the role:

• “We act with urgency; Action today compounds the lives saved tomorrow.”

• “We obsess over learning. We don’t have to be the smartest we have to learn the fastest.”

Here’s What You’ll Need (Basic Qualifications)

• Education: Degree

• Experience: STEM degree with 0+ years’ of experience in a GMP QC laboratory setting, focusing on microbiology.

• Specific Certifications or Training: None

Here’s What You’ll Bring to the Table (Preferred Qualifications):

• Hands-on experience with particle counters, viable air samplers, and gas equipment.

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Programs and electronic databases (LIMS, SAP, eQMS).

• Excellent troubleshooting skills and the ability to communicate scientific issues clearly.

• Strong written and oral communication skills and organizational abilities.

• Knowledge of GMP, microbiology, aseptic techniques, and general laboratory instrumentation.

• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, cross-functional matrix environment.

• Familiarity with relevant FDA, EU, ICH guidelines, and regulations

• Bold, Relentless, Curious, and Collaborative.

Pay & Benefits

At Moderna, we believe that when you feel your best, you can do your best work. That’s why our US benefits and global well-being resources are designed to support you—at work, at home, and everywhere in between.

• Best-in-class healthcare coverage, plus voluntary benefit programs to support your unique needs

• A holistic approach to well-being, with access to fitness, mindfulness, and mental health support

• Family planning benefits, including fertility, adoption, and surrogacy support

• Generous paid time off, including vacation, volunteer days, sabbatical, global recharge days, and a discretionary year-end shutdown

• Savings and investment opportunities to help you plan for the future

• Location-specific perks and extras

The salary range for this role is $53,500.00 - $85,600.00. This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An individual’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, specific competencies, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, performance, and business or organizational needs.
The successful candidate may be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, other incentive compensation, or equity award, subject to company plan eligibility criteria and individual performance.

About Moderna

Since our founding in 2010, we have aspired to build the leading mRNA technology platform, the infrastructure to reimagine how medicines are created and delivered, and a world-class team. We believe in giving our people a platform to change medicine and an opportunity to change the world.

By living our mission, values, and mindsets every day, our people are the driving force behind our scientific progress and our culture. Together, we are creating a culture of belonging and building an organization that cares deeply for our patients, our employees, the environment, and our communities.

We are proud to have been recognized as a Science Magazine Top Biopharma Employer, a Fast Company Best Workplace for Innovators, and a Great Place to Work in the U.S.

If you want to make a difference and join a team that is changing the future of medicine, we invite you to visit modernatx.com/careers to learn more about our current opportunities.

Our Working Model 

As we build our company, we have always believed an in-person culture is critical to our success. Moderna champions the significant benefits of in-office collaboration by embracing a 70/30 work model. This 70% in-office structure helps to foster a culture rich in innovation, teamwork, and direct mentorship. Join us in shaping a world where every interaction is an opportunity to learn, contribute, and make a meaningful impact.

Moderna is a smoke-free, alcohol-free, and drug-free work environment.

Equal Opportunities

Moderna is committed to equal employment opportunity and non-discrimination for all employees and qualified applicants without regard to a person's race, color, sex, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, ancestry or citizenship, ethnicity, disability, military or protected veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, marital or familial status, or any other personal characteristic protected under applicable law. Moderna is a place where everyone can grow. If you meet the Basic Qualifications for the role and you would be excited to contribute to our mission every day, please apply!

Moderna is an E-Verify Employer in the United States. We consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

Accommodations

We’re focused on attracting, retaining, developing, and advancing our employees. By cultivating a workplace that values diverse experiences, backgrounds, and ideas, we create an environment where every employee can contribute their best.

Moderna is committed to offering reasonable accommodations to qualified job applicants with disabilities. Any applicant requiring an accommodation in connection with the hiring process and/or to perform the essential functions of the position for which the applicant has applied should contact the Accommodations team at leavesandaccommodations@modernatx.com 

Export Control Notice
This position may involve access to technology or data that is subject to U.S. export control laws, including the Export Administration Regulations (EAR). As such, employment is contingent upon the applicant’s ability to access export-controlled information in accordance with U.S. law. Due to the nature of the work and regulatory requirements, only individuals who qualify as U.S. persons (citizens, permanent residents, asylees, or refugees) are eligible for this position. For this role Moderna is unable to sponsor non-U.S. persons to apply for an export control license.
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