Visual Inspection Manufacturing Scientist - Military Veterans

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The mission of Technical Services/Manufacturing Sciences (TS/MS) is to provide scientific leadership and technical support for manufacturing to make medicine today and tomorrow.  The Visual Inspection Manufacturing Scientist provide technical support to achieve the reliable and compliant manufacture of parenteral drug product to predetermined global quality standards via a detailed set of manufacturing instructions and procedures.  This person interacts daily with a wide variety of people, including customers, other personnel and site management.

Responsibilities:

• Understand the scientific principles required for manufacturing parenteral drug products, including the interaction of the chemistry, equipment, aseptic processes, and container closure systems on inspection processes.


• Ensure that an accurate instruction set (tickets & procedures) and process flow document describe the process as performed and the control strategy for the discrete manufacturing steps.


• Develop, monitor and appropriately react to established statistically based metrics in real-time to assess process variability and capability.


• Understand, justify and document the state of validation with data that evaluate the capability of the manufacturing process to meet its stated purpose.


• Prepare, review, approve, and provide technical support for preparation of relevant technical documents, as required, such as: change controls, regulatory submissions, deviation investigations, validation protocols and summary reports, processing records, procedures, process flow documents, validation master plans, annual product reviews, periodic monitoring, etc.


• Participate in development and implementation of process improvements, including capital expansions and technical projects. Work within or lead cross- functional teams in positive fashion to implement technical objectives and deliver on business plan, quality objectives or to improve process control, yield,  and/or productivity.

Basic Requirements:

• Bachelors in scientific disciplines of Biochemistry, Chemistry, Microbiology, Pharmacy, or Engineering.

Additional Preferences:

• Technical/Scientific knowledge


• Good written and oral communications


• Clear understanding of cGMPs


• Teamwork and interpersonal skills


• Computer skills


• Decision making


• Multi-tasking


• Problem solving


• Responsible for maintaining a safe work environment, working safely and accountable for supporting all HSE Corporate and Site Goals.

Additional Information:

• This position is day shift, Monday-Friday, with off hours and weekend support needed, by request.

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