Job Description
The Future Talent Program features Cooperative (Co-op) education that lasts up to 6 months and will include one or more projects. These opportunities in our Manufacturing Division can provide you with great development and a chance to see if we are the right company for your long-term goals.
This experience will provide you with great opportunity to develop yourself both technically and professionally. This co-op will work in a Large Molecule Science and technology role providing global technical support to vaccine and biologics manufacturing areas while actively supporting, participating in and embracing an empowered team culture. You will get an opportunity to work alongside scientists and engineers in tech transfer, expansion and commercial manufacturing support.
About Us
Large Molecule Science and Technology is responsible for end-to-end technology support for vaccines and biologics. Advancing our growing pipeline of large molecules while supporting the existing commercial manufacture and expansion. This includes the planning and execution of process development studies to support design & characterization of commercial-scale processes. The organization is also responsible for technology transfer to commercial manufacturing sites. We support process validation, regulatory approval, and initial launch of our new products.
This LM S&T co-op includes the departments listed below based in West Point, PA.

• Technical Product Leadership is focused on worldwide end to end technical support of vaccine and biologic products including internal and external manufacturing nodes.
• Global Science and Technology Services is focused on specific subject matter expertise support of commercialization and manufacturing including data science, raw materials, product contact components, primary packaging components, quantitative sciences, and validation.
• Biologics Drug Substance Process Development & Commercialization (Kenilworth, NJ and North Wales, PA and West Point, PA), is focused on commercialization of biologic and vaccine drug substances
• Sterile Drug Product Commercialization - is focused on commercialization of sterile drug products, including biologics, vaccines, and sterile small molecules
• Commercialization Operations and Process Attribute Sciences is focused on analytical characterization of biologics and vaccines process

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Strategic technical support of existing commercial vaccines and biologics franchises worldwide.
• Opportunity to make problems visible across all manufacturing nodes within a product franchise.
• Designing and executing process development and characterization studies.
• Authoring technical protocols for studies, including ensuring appropriate design of experiments (DoE), sample size selection, and acceptance criteria.
• Managing sample submission and tracking. Employing statistical tools and methods to analyze results
• Developing analytical characterization tools and delivering results in support of process development studies
• Authoring technical reports that can be used as source documentation for regulatory filings
• Participation in development and commercial teams (working group/product council)
• Presenting study results and conclusions at team (working group/product council) and department meetings
• Ensuring technical information is clearly understood and integrated into decision making
• Supporting computational modeling work
• Works as a team member on manufacturing investigations, validation activities and/or process improvement projects.
• Has ability to examine an issue from diverse perspectives (safety, compliance, automation, equipment, process, and people) in order to best understand and resolve the root cause.
• Assures consistent application of standardized work, engineering and process tools and procedures.
• Authors and updates technical and manufacturing documents necessary for investigations, process design/definition, engineering studies, process demonstrations, change control and validation.
• Authoring or performing second-person review (SPR) for high-quality regulatory submissions
• Effectively collaborates with peers on site and above site as required.
• Effectively communicates both verbally and written.
• Contributing to a culture of high performance, out of the box thinking, innovation and learning, empowerment, diversity and inclusion

Required Education and Experience:

• Candidates must be currently working toward B.S. in Chemical Engineering, Biochemical Engineering, Data Science or related field
• Candidates must have superior technical competency as demonstrated by excellent academic record and work achievement
• Candidates must have strong communication skills, personal character, and ethics

Preferred Experience & Skills:

• Candidates should have previous process development, research, or manufacturing experience preferred
• Candidate should have a working knowledge of project management skills
• Candidates should have ability to work independently or in teams
• Candidates should have strong communication skills
• Hands-on laboratory experience in biologics or vaccine research.
• Experience with software such as Excel, JMP, Minitab, and MATLAB.

Our Manufacturing & Supply Division is dedicated to being the most trusted supplier of bio-pharmaceuticals worldwide. Our facilities, along with our external contractors, suppliers, and partners, create a reliable global manufacturing network that's devoted to delivering a high-quality, reliable supply to customers and patients on time, every time.
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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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Employee Status:
Intern/Co-op (Fixed Term)
Relocation:
No relocation
VISA Sponsorship:
No
Travel Requirements:
No Travel Required
Flexible Work Arrangements:
Hybrid
Shift:
1st - Day
Valid Driving License:
No
Hazardous Material(s):
Job Posting End Date:05/17/2024
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Requisition ID:R292719