Process Development Scientist

Description

Location/Site: Worcester, MA

Remote, 100% Onsite, or Hybrid Onsite Schedule: Onsite

What are the top 3-5 skills, experience or education required for this position:

• Strong biological scientific understanding.
• Experience with chromatography and filtration for biologics purification
• Experience with bioanalytical assays and methods preferred

Are you open to look at candidates willing to relocate? Local preferred

Years of experience/education and/or certifications required: BS - Chemical Engineering, Biochemistry, or Chemistry with 3-5 yrs. experience

What is a nice to have (but not required) regarding skills, requirements, experience, education, or certification?

• BS - Chemical Engineering, Biochemistry, or Chemistry with 3-5 yrs. experience

Work Schedule (Define days,# of hours)/ Is Overtime offered or required? Monday - Friday, 8 hrs/day. No overtime

Does this position offer the ability to work remotely on a regular basis? No

Do you want interviews to be virtual or onsite? Onsite preferred

Job Description

This position is in the Biologics Purification Development team of the Product Development Science & Technology department at client.

• The candidate will be involved with all aspects of protein purification and protein chemistry to support biopharmaceutical process development.

Responsibilities, under the supervision of a Scientist II include:

• Execute high through put scale down robotic purification as part of early and late stage process development, viral clearance, process characterization, and continuous process improvement studies.
• Perform basic data acquisition and analysis, and documentation in electric lab notebooks.
• Will develop economical, robust steps for recovering the target protein from bioreactor harvests using chromatography, filtration, and other separation techniques; developing downstream purification processes to be transferred to manufacturing; and perform laboratory scale process characterization studies.
• Perform various bioanalytical assays, including HPLC, ELISAs and SDS-PAGE, to aid in rapid process development.
• The candidate must possess strong written, oral, and collaborative skills in order to effectively communicate experimental procedures and results.
• As appropriate, the candidate may supply technical support for pilot and/or GMP manufacturing of clinical materials.