MSD

Pharmaceutical Commercialization Scientist – Engineer

MSD

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: West PointNew JerseyPennsylvaniaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $87,300 - $137,400 per year

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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