Job Description

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Adherence to all Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) Safety Standards, Cleanroom: no hair products, jewelry, makeup, nail polish, perfume, exposed piercings, facial hair etc... allowed

Job Description

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

DESCRIPTION:

Join our team at Thermo Fisher Scientific as a Scientist II, Formulation, where you'll contribute to innovative scientific solutions. You'll perform complex manufacturing and formulation activities in a GMP environment, working with advanced technologies to develop and produce high-quality biopharmaceutical products. This role offers the opportunity to enhance processes while maintaining rigorous quality standards. You'll work with colleagues across functions to ensure successful technology transfers, process validation, and commercial manufacturing operations. We're seeking detail-oriented professionals dedicated to serving science and enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer.

Responsibilities

• Supports in NPI (New Product Introduction) or existing product by participating in validation, qualification activities of products and processes, re-qualification activities and quality investigations. Responsible to author technical Operations protocols, reports and other documentations related to existing product or NPI at site.
• Provide training to Operation team necessary to support manufacturing and process activities.
• Demonstrates expertise in good technical writing skills with respect to reports, protocols, quality investigations and change requests.
• Provide technical expertise for day-to-day production activities of commercial products, e.g. Support in identifying root causes of problems using appropriate problem solving tools; changes and improvements to processes; implementation of new production technologies etc.
• Provides technical expertise for quality compliance activities (for e.g. documentation update to batch records, SOPs, risk assessments etc.), change control, investigations and CAPA and support for health authorities' inspections.
• Demonstrates and proactively participate in Continuous Process Verification (CPV) and Annual Product Review (APR) activities to trend, monitor and analyze and adjust and shift in process parameters, critical quality attributes (CQAs) and process and equipment performance. Must be familiar with using appropriate statistical tools to read and react on the trends.
• Participates in critical technical projects related to the production of commercial sterile pharmaceuticals.
• Ensures that new products/processes introduced into production are robust and efficient. It follows and supports from a technical point of view or the engineering and validation batches in order to ensure the robustness and efficiency of the transferred processes.
• Participation in project meetings, aimed at transposing the production processes requested by the customer, the approval of the instructions regarding production operations, any support in the event of anomalies with respect to production standards.
• Demonstrate and promote EHS safe practices as per safety standards SOPs. Ensure all the activities are carried out as per EHS standard and site safety SOPs. Participate in safety activities, HAZOPS and process safety activities related to the product at site
• Any other duties assigned by manager.

REQUIREMENTS

• Advanced Degree with no prior experience required, or Bachelor's Degree plus 2 years of experience in pharmaceutical/biotechnology manufacturing or laboratory environment
• Preferred Fields of Study: Chemistry, Biology, Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Chemical Engineering or related scientific field
• Demonstrated expertise in GMP manufacturing processes and documentation practices
• Strong understanding of aseptic techniques and clean room operations
• Pharmaceutical manufacturing processes

Knowledge of Statistical Process Controls and related tool

Good computer skills

Knowledge of laws and regulations relating to safety and conservation of the environment

Flexibility

Relationship skills:

Openness and attentive

Specific experience in the production of sterile injectable drugs is preferred

Specific experience in packaging and visual inspection activities is preferred.

Highly motivated to work in pharmaceutical Industry.

Able to work as a team.