Scientist - Biopharmaceutical Pilot Registration Lab

Role Description

The Scientist in the Biopharmaceutical Pilot Registration Lab plays an essential role in the Zoetis biopharmaceutical program for veterinary medicine. As a scientist working in the Registration Lab, the individual should have technical knowledge of downstream processing for the final development, scale-up, and transfer to manufacturing for CHO expressed monoclonal antibodies. The successful candidate should have hands-on experience with recombinant protein production including centrifugation, chromatography and filtration processes. Experience associated with upstream cell culture equipment for cell growth at a 50L to 2000L scale is desired.

The successful candidate will work with minimal supervision in a GMP-regulated environment, providing strong technical support and participating in multi-disciplinary teams in close collaboration with a range of scientists and manufacturing representatives across the organization. The position is based in Lincoln (Nebraska, USA) with frequent interactions with colleagues and external partners located around the globe.

Position Responsibilities

• Operate and troubleshoot large scale equipment for purifying recombinantly-produced therapeutic proteins
• Develop process documentation, operating procedures, bills of materials, and protocols required for process transfer and validation. Author protocols, reports, and technology transfer documents that will support technology transfer within the company and to support regulatory filings for new product registrations. Maintain documentation and equipment records in accord with current GMPs.
• Collaborate with downstream process development to optimize the fit of the manufacturing to the pilot and commercial manufacturing facilities.
• Represent the pilot function on interdisciplinary project teams and serve as a liaison between product development teams and manufacturing functions. Contribute at the technical level to the direction of the team and provide information to support decision making in the realm of process scale up and transfer. -
• Hands-on participation in the execution of GMP batches for any of the following unit operations :

downstream purification unit operations such as cross-flow filtration, centrifugation, process chromatography, precipitation, ultrafiltration, and sterile filtration

Education and Experience

Technical Skills Requirements

Full time

Regular

Colleague

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