Associate Process Development

Payrate: $22.00 - $23.00/hr. Summary: The Pre-Pivotal Drug Substance Technologies organization develops, characterizes, and supports clinical drug substance manufacturing processes for all early-stage programs. The role involves supporting the development, characterization, scale-up, and support of upstream and downstream processes to enable clinical advancement. This integrated bioprocess development group provides the opportunity to work on multiple modalities, including antibodies, BiTEs, oncolytic viruses, bispecifics, and siRNAs. Responsibilities: • Work in a team environment to contribute to drug substance process development. • Conduct mammalian cell culture experiments at different scales in shake flasks and bioreactors. • Implement purification experiments, mainly filtration and chromatography, at bench and pilot scale as needed. • Document experimental data in lab notebooks. • Analyze data and present findings to the team. • Author technical reports and support regulatory filing as needed. • Contribute to technology development projects to seek continuous improvement in reliability and efficiency. • Gain experience in both cell culture development and purification development to become a well-rounded process development scientist. Qualifications: • Degree in Chemical Engineering, Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Bioengineering, Biomedical engineering, or Bioprocessing field, or relevant experience in the pharmaceutical or related industry preferred. • Relevant hands-on lab experience in cell culture or protein purification. • Attention to detail and critical thinking ability. • Ability to identify, develop, and implement solutions to practical problems through the application of fundamental scientific and engineering principles, preferably in a process development environment. • Basic understanding of protein chromatography, filtration, or cell culture principles; hands-on experience with mammalian cell culture and/or purification operations is a plus. • Prior experience with data analytical tools (Excel, Spotfire, etc.). Experience with statistical analysis and programming in JMP, R, and/or Python environments is a plus. Desired Skills: • Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering, Biochemical Engineering, Life Sciences, or other relevant sciences with a demonstrated record of excellence. • Motivated self-starter with excellent interpersonal and organizational skills. • Team player with the ability to successfully work within a diverse team in a dynamic, cross-functional environment. • Familiarity with design of experiments and statistical analysis of data is desirable. Pay Transparency: The typical base pay for this role across the U.S. is: $22.00 - $23.00 /hour. Non-exempt positions are eligible for overtime at a rate of 1.5 times the base hourly rate for all hours worked in excess of 40 in a work week, or as required by state or local law. Final offer amounts, within the base pay set forth above, are determined by factors including your relevant skills, education and experience. Full-time employees are eligible to select from different benefits packages. Packages may include medical, dental, and vision benefits, health savings accounts with qualified medical plan enrollment, 10 paid days off, 3 days paid bereavement leave, 401(k) plan participation with employer match,  life and disability insurance, commuter benefits, dependent care flexible spending account, accident insurance, critical illness insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, accommodations and reimbursement for work travel, and discretionary performance or recognition bonus. Sick leave and mobile phone reimbursement provided based on state or local law. 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