TSR Consulting Services, Inc.
83130
**Please ONLY local candidates to Seattle WA
TSR is a premier National U.S. Staffing company with over 50 years of staffing excellence.
Our client, a leading pharmaceutical company is hiring an Assistant/Associate Scientist for a 12 + months contracting assignment.
Must have skills:
- Experience should include management of lab activities, technical support of a cGMP manufacturing facility, including strong knowledge and engineering leadership for viral vector manufacturing and processing equipment, and process characterization
- Prefer experience with leading experiments and designing DOEs
- Prior experience in/knowledge of cell culture, viral vector manufacturing, recovery and/or purification of viral vector product in a manufacturing environment preferred
Pay: $49-50/hour W2
Location: Seattle WA
Responsibilities:
- The successful candidate will design and execute experiments related to supporting commercial vector manufacturing processes
- This person will collaborate across all CMC functional areas to insure project advancement, rapid and best in class execution, and communication of challenges/opportunities
- Oversee lab activities and schedule
- Design studies to support commercial manufacturing deviation investigations
- Support the execution of process characterization studies
- Collaborate with commercial vector team to identify opportunities for process improvements, make formal recommendations
- Lead identification and implementation of new technologies and procedures from Development into Manufacturing
- Lead efforts focusing on alignment and harmonization of manufacturing process across multiple sites
- Support the hands-on training of commercial process unit operations to Vector MS&T
- Identify, design and manage small capital engineering projects
- Degree in Biology, Chemistry, Biochemical or Chemical Engineering, or equivalent area of related experience in biologics upstream manufacturing
- Preference given to candidates with experience performing process characterization
- Knowledge of cellular immunology and/or vector manufacturing a plus
- Experience with cGMP, ICH guidelines, PPQ (process validation), control strategy development, and working within a Quality organization