Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins works with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate.
Eurofins is the global leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and in agroscience Contract Research Organisation services. Eurofins is one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and in the support of clinical studies, as well as having an emerging global presence in Contract Development and Manufacturing Organisations. The Group also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialised and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products.
In over just 30 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to 55,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of 900 laboratories in over 50 countries. Eurofins offers a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products.
In 2020, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR € 5.4 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.
Job Description
- Responsible for performing upstream process development, including timely completion of small-scale experiments, scale-up, technology transfer and GMP floor support for programs that bring new biopharmaceutical products to pre-clinical, clinical and process validation manufacturing phases.
- Cell banking, cell expansion, bioreactor process, and harvest clarification process development, optimization, characterization, scale-up, and technology transfer to CMO's and/or internal manufacturing facilities.
- Participate in cell culture process development, scale-up, and technology transfer activities.
- Applies basic knowledge from various technical areas, industry standards and practices, provides quality and productive output that is consistently timely, reliable and reproducible.
- Provide technical support and apply knowledge and execute experiments toward development and optimization of cell culture processes and in line with overall project plan and milestones under close supervision.
- Manage, operate, monitor, and troubleshoot bench-top bioreactors and related control systems.
- Documents data accurately in laboratory notebooks and completely as per established company guidelines/SOPs.
- Contributes to technical documents such as reports, protocols, internal presentations and regulatory filing documentation.
- Participate in and contribute to team meetings, including sub-teams, project teams, tech. transfer teams, and departmental meetings.
Qualifications
- BS (0-3 years) in Chemical/Biochemical Engineering/Biological Sciences or related discipline with relevant industry experience in upstream process development.
- Proven record of technical proficiency and troubleshooting.
- Proven ability to work in a fast-paced environment with demonstrated capacity to juggle multiple competing tasks and demands.
- Have working knowledge and experience with mammalian cell culture process development, process scale-up, tech. transfer, and GMP manufacturing support
- Have experience in design-of-experiment and the ability to analyze and interpret data collected
- Embrace and demonstrate teamwork/collaboration and the ability to communicate appropriately and effectively in both oral and written format
- Demonstrate ownership in executing bioreactor process development, tech. transfer, and manufacturing support
- Have the ability to proactively learn new technologies and manage changes in bioreactor process development and process scale-up
- Have experience working in GMP environment
- Experience with mammalian cell culture, experienceworking specifically with CHO cells is preferred
- Present issues and discussresults in group and team settings as needed.
- Apply fundamental engineering and/or biological principles to practical technical challenges
- Work closely with his/her supervisor and coworkers in managing projects.
- Provide input into the development of new cell culture processes.
Additional Information
Position is full-time, Monday - Friday 8:00am - 5:00pm.Candidates currently living within a commutable distance of Lexington, MAare 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
Eurofins is aM/F, Disabled, and Veteran Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer.
Company:Eurofins USALocation:Lexington - Massachusetts - United StatesJob Types:Full TimePost Date:November 1, 2021Valid Through:November 30, 2021