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Pay Range - $35 to $40/hr. (negotiable)

Job Description:
Job Roles & Responsibilities:

• Seeking motivated, team-oriented individuals with scientific expertise in process development as well as pre-clinical and clinical operations related to recombinant proteins.

Specific Responsibilities and skills for Position:

• The successful candidate will have a working understanding of downstream process development and scale up including centrifugation, normal flow filtration, chromatography operations, tangential flow filtration, and virus inactivation/removal. The ability to demonstrate hands on experience in several of these areas is expected.
• The candidate is expected to work effectively within the purification team to help design and execute experiments supporting process definition, optimization, and characterization with an increasing level of independence.
• The candidate will collaborate with Technical Operations in technology transfer from process development to clinical and commercial GMP manufacturing, including definition of bill of materials, batch record drafting/review, and discrepancy resolution.
• The candidate will also contribute to the preparation of regulatory filings and process validation and characterization reports.
• The applicant should be an effective communicator of ideas, project goals and results to the team and should have the ability to proactively identify issues and suggest solutions in a collaborative multidisciplinary environment.
• This is a highly collaborative environment where willingness and ability to communicate and work effectively with individuals across various teams is essential.
• Candidates should be self-motivated, organized, and enjoy scientific investigation and thinking.
• The applicant is also expected to recommend alternatives, research new methods and technologies that can advance purification platforms, and proactively seek out senior personnel to discuss potential solutions to problems.
• The candidate will monitor and contribute to external literature and scientific conferences.

Essential Duties and Job Functions:

• Hands-on execution of all aspects of purification process development, process scale up and GMP manufacturing support.
• Ability to work with increasing independence in the initiation and execution of laboratory experimentation
• Willingness to proactively seeking out senior personnel to define goals, design experiments, discuss results and suggest next steps.

Knowledge, Experience and Skills:

• Requires a BS (2+ years of experience) or MS (0+ years) in Chemical/Biochemical Engineering, Biochemistry or a related scientific discipline and relevant experience that demonstrates experience in purification process development.
• Excellent communication skills (both verbal and technical) and interpersonal skills are required.
• Must be able to participate in highly effective teams, and work with collaborative communication and problem solving spirit.
• Demonstrates ability to recognize anomalous and inconsistent results and interpret experimental outcomes.