Downstream Process Scientist at Eurofins Lancaster Laboratories Professional Scientific Services, LLC in Malvern, Pennsylvania

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Company Description



Are you looking for an exciting opportunity, a rewarding, enriching, and fulfilling career, and the opportunity to grow to greater levels of success with a company that values you? Then look no further! Join Eurofins PSS: a world class company that is growing by leaps and bounds while making a difference to humanity.


At Eurofins PSS, you will gain experience working in state-of-the-art laboratories, and be a part of a team that is dedicated to testing, development, and advancement of life-saving drug products to make the world a healthier and happier place to live in. Our people are our chemistry and we need talented people like you now more than ever.



Job Description



The candidate for this position will work as a member of a small team to perform scale-up/scale-down development of therapeutic biologics with strong emphasis on API proteins within the Large-Scale Development & Operations downstream (DSP) group in Malvern, PA. The candidate's primary responsibilities will include a component of pilot-scale DSP operations execution, DSP data acquisition and modeling, and optimizing the process steps to be representative of the target process scale to ensure right first time technical transfers.


This will include:

• Pilot-scale and occasional laboratory work with chromatographic purification and several types of filtration systems


• Record and analyze data, verify data integrity and accuracy, and report/summarize findings to the project development teams


• Design experiments to optimize DSP operations within the Large-Scale Development & Operations DSP group to ensure that they are representative of internal and external manufacturing sites


• Draft technical documents, SOPs, and work instructions


• Work in a team environment as well as contributing individually to meet project timelines and objectives

• Minimum of BS in scientific related discipline is required.


• Knowledge of and hands-on experience with DSP purification (chromatography, filtration) of protein therapeutics (such as antibodies) is required.


• Experience with scale-up/down of DSP, and/or execution at pilot or manufacturing scales for biologics manufacture is preferred.


• Exposure to analytical method development for in-process methods is preferred.


• The candidate must be highly organized and capable of managing/pursuing multiple projects with some supervision.


• Experience maintaining written records of work in the form of (electronic) notebooks, technical reports and protocols is preferred.


• Data reporting, ability to present findings to management, and experience with team-based collaborations is required.

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  Position is full-time, Mon-Fri 9am-5pm. Candidates currently living within a commutable distance of Malvern, PA are encouraged to apply.
  
  
  


• Excellent full time benefits including comprehensive medical coverage, dental, and vision options


• Life and disability insurance


• 401(k) with company match


• Paid vacation and holidays