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2025 University Recruiting - Quality Assurance Intern

MSD
West Point, United StatesRemotefull_timeVerifiedPosted 6 Sept 2024

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Job Description

The Future Talent Program features internships that last up to 12 weeks 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. 

Job Requisition:

Our Quality Assurance group ensures every single material inside our products is manufactured, processed, tested, packaged, stored, and distributed aligned with our incredibly high standards of quality, and meets all regulatory requirements.  Partnering across our internal manufacturing facilities, external contract manufacturers, and suppliers we create an interdependent global manufacturing network dedicated to delivering a compliant, reliable supply to customers and patients on time, every time, across the globe.

Our Quality Organization ensures every single material inside our products is manufactured, processed, tested, packaged, stored, and distributed aligned with our high standards of quality, and meets all regulatory requirements. The 2025 Quality Operations Interns will have the opportunity to work on a strategic project(s) aligned to our site and divisional quality goals in the areas of Quality Operations, Quality Assurance, or Quality Control. The intern will have the opportunity to drive project(s) through the organization, leading multi-functional teams and interacting with Senior Leaders.

The following areas are potential areas of focus the incumbent may support:

  • Laboratory Technical Services (Chemistry/Biochemistry, Virology, Microbiology)

  • Laboratory Instrument and Equipment Support

  • Digital Solutions/Data Visualization

  • Environmental Monitoring/Qualification

  • Quality Systems

Primary Activities: 

  • Develop a project plan to address the strategy/problem statement that you will be working on

  • Schedule routine meetings with the necessary stakeholders

  • Actively participate in the Tier process and use this forum to make concerns visible

  • Maintain metrics and track progress on a project.

  • Ensure all data is in compliance with cGMPs, GLPs, departmental procedures and assay methods and is of the highest integrity, quality, and accuracy

Required Education & Experience:

  • Candidates must be currently enrolled in a B.S. or M.S., in Scientific or Engineering field program

Preferred Experience & Skills:

  • Candidates should demonstrate interpersonal skills including flexibility, collaboration, and inclusion skills, and the ability to work in a team environment.

  • Candidates should have experience in the pharmaceutical industry.

  • Candidates should be a self-starter with the capability to develop innovative solutions to challenges.

  • Candidates should have proven analytical aptitude, critical thinking skills, and the ability to apply key concepts.

  • Candidates should have strong written and verbal communication skills.

  • Candidates should have hands-on experience in a laboratory setting (chemistry/biochemistry, microbiology, etc.)

Our Manufacturing & Supply Division is dedicated to being the most trusted supplier of biopharmaceuticals 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. 

MMD2025

FTP2025

Future Talent - Intern

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 C

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