
Pharmaceutical Commercialization Scientist – Engineer
MSD
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: West Point • New Jersey • Pennsylvania • United States
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Salary
💰 $87,300 - $137,400 per year
Tech Stack
About the role
- Plan, conduct, and interpret pharmaceutical process development studies with manager and team support, such as scale up, technology transfer, design space development, clinical and stability batch manufacture, and process validation
- Participate in drug product working groups and/or technology development teams and represent the department in cross-functional interactions
- Apply problem-solving skills and aspects of Quality by Design, including risk-based approaches to development, design of experiments, and process modeling
- Author technical documents, such as experimental protocols, reports, and regulatory filings
- Demonstrate oral and written communication skills and effective collaboration and leadership within teams
- Evaluate new and innovative technologies and equipment, perform physical testing and data analysis, and comply with applicable safety and current good manufacturing practices
- Contribute to publications and presentations within the scientific community as appropriate
- Support digital and data analytics initiatives and contribute to an innovative environment
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree and two years related experience or master’s degree and one-year related experience in Chemical/Biochemical Engineering, Materials Science/Engineering, Pharmaceutical Sciences, or related discipline
- Proven ability to work both independently and as part of a team and execute against commitments
- Strong written and oral communication skills
- Technical writing experience
- Interest in solving technical problems and driving to root cause understanding
- Hands-on experience in a laboratory, pilot plant, or manufacturing facility (preferred)
- Experience with process scale-up and/or technology transfer (preferred)
- Familiarity with concepts and application of cGMP during pharmaceutical development and production (preferred)
- Demonstrated capability to design and execute experiments with mechanistic understanding, process robustness, productivity, and cost in mind (preferred)
- Experience with data analytics, process modeling, and/or statistical process control (preferred)
- Digital fluency in one or more of the following: Python, R, powerBI, power apps, Generative AI as a productivity tool, data literacy and statistical reasoning (preferred)
Benefits
- medical, dental, vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family)
- retirement benefits, including 401(k)
- paid holidays
- vacation
- compassionate and sick days
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
pharmaceutical process developmentscale uptechnology transferdesign space developmentprocess validationQuality by Designdesign of experimentsprocess modelingdata analyticsstatistical process control
Soft Skills
problem-solvingoral communicationwritten communicationcollaborationleadershipindependent workteamworkcommitment executiontechnical writingroot cause analysis