Associate Specialist, Engineering, Protein Purification

Job Description

Position Description:

Associate Specialist, Engineering, Protein Purification

West Point Technical Operations Laboratory organization is seeking highly motivated individuals to join their laboratory team supporting multi-product vaccine manufacturing processes.

This role will be 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. 

Responsibilities:

• Functioning as a key member of the technical operations lab team through executing lab-scale downstream process optimization and investigation support, including 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. 

Position Qualifications:

Education Minimum Requirement:  

• B.S. in Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Biology, Biochemistry or comparable discipline. 

Required Experience and Skills:  

• Hands-on experience within lab, pilot-scale, or manufacturing environment  

• Knowledge in protein purification

Preferred Experience and Skills: 

• 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. 

NOTICE FOR INTERNAL APPLICANTS

In accordance with Managers' Policy - Job Posting and Employee Placement, all employees subject to this policy are required to have a minimum of twelve (12) months of service in current position prior to applying for open positions.

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.

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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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