Senior Technical Transfer Specialist

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The Position

A healthier future. It’s what drives us to innovate. To continuously advance science and ensure everyone has access to the healthcare they need today and for generations to come. Creating a world where we all have more time with the people we love. That’s what makes us Roche.

As a Senior Technical Transfer Specialist, you are a coordinator between Operations and the Development, Regulatory and Project teams at Roche.  You assist with launching new assays, reagents and bulk materials used in tissue diagnostic tests. This position is responsible for ensuring that all Operations needs are met from a manufacturability, quality, cost and schedule perspective. This business critical role will also support, as needed, the transfer of products from site to site, or site to supplier within the US to other US or international sites. 

The Opportunity

• You define, understand and communicate manufacturing best practices at the site and communicate minimum requirements to the core project team to ensure manufacturability and scalability. Your expertise covers assays, reagents and bulk materials used in tissue diagnostics. 

• You lead and execute Validation protocols utilizing Good Manufacturing Processes (GMP) and standards for transferred products. You actively define and improve Validation standard work in coordination with the site Validations team to ensure uniformity across the organization.  

• You are a Global Operations project focal point and ensure that all Operations stakeholders (Manufacturing, Process Engineering, Validation Engineering, Functional Leads, Quality, Validation, Planning, Purchasing, Procurement and Label Control) needs are understood and communicated through the transfer process.

• You establish and refine Technology Transfer standard work to continuously improve the transfer process. You actively seek out, create and implement new ways to drastically simplify our ways of working within the team. 

• You participate in and/or lead cross-functional teams to ensure the needs of the technology transfer project are met. You establish partnerships across other organizational groups (Lifecycle, Regulatory and other business partners) as required. This includes mentoring, coaching and leading other Technical Transfer Specialists in the execution of projects.

• You prepare and deliver presentations of project results to others; you present data to larger and diverse audiences.

Who You Are

• You have a Bachelor’s degree in an Engineering/Engineering Technology or Life Science discipline.

• You have 5-8 years of mechanical/manufacturing systems development/technology transfer, or related experience.

• You have a PMP certification or are willing to obtain it within 1 year, required.

Preferred

• You have a Master of Science in an Engineering/Engineering Technology or Life Science discipline preferred with 5 or more years of experience in mechanical/manufacturing systems, or related.  Equivalent combination of education and/or experience may be accepted upon management and HR review

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• You have demonstrated ability to lead, influence and coach team members.

• You have a strong understanding of assay, bulk and reagent manufacturing processes and design and the ability to apply scientific methods as it relates to production.

• You have advanced technical writing skills to produce reports and documents.

• You have the ability to apply 6 Sigma and Lean Manufacturing Methods during the development phase, and have experience with systems such as SAP and ETQ (preferred).

Locations

You are local to Tucson, Arizona.

Relocation benefits are not available for this position.

The expected salary range for this position based on the primary location of Tucson is $71,600 and $133,000.  Actual pay will be determined based on e