2026 Future Talent Program - Global Science, Engineering and Commercialization Co-Op

MSD•Upper Gwynedd Township, PA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Future Talent Program offers Cooperative (Co-op) education opportunities that last up to 6 months and include one or more projects within the Manufacturing Division. These opportunities aim to provide significant development and a chance to assess suitability for long-term career goals with the company. The company's vision is to make a difference in the lives of people globally through innovative medicines, vaccines, and animal health products, striving to be a premier, research-intensive biopharmaceutical company. Core areas of focus include diabetes, infectious diseases, oncology, vaccines, livestock, companion animal, and aquaculture. This co-op specifically involves a Global Science, Engineering and Commercialization role, providing global technical support to vaccine and biologics manufacturing areas while actively supporting and embracing an empowered team culture. Co-ops will have the opportunity to work alongside scientists and engineers in late-stage process development, commercialization, tech transfer and expansion, and commercial manufacturing support, emphasizing a “Safety First, Quality Always” mindset and a drive for continuous improvement and innovation. Global Science, Engineering and Commercialization is responsible for end-to-end technology support for vaccines and biologics, advancing the growing pipeline of large molecule products, and supporting existing commercial manufacture and expansion. This includes planning and execution of process development studies to support the design and characterization of commercial-scale processes. The organization is also responsible for technology transfer to commercial manufacturing sites, supporting process validation, regulatory approval, and initial launch of new products. As a co-op in GSEC, you will have the opportunity to work collaboratively in one of the following areas: Global Vaccine and Biologics Commercialization (focused on commercialization of biologic and vaccine drug substances) or Sterile Drug Product Commercialization (focused on commercialization of sterile drug products, including biologics, vaccines, and sterile small molecules). This involves bringing chemically or biologically derived research and discoveries to production by applying engineering, chemistry, and pharmaceutics skills to characterize and scale-up processes, developing and implementing innovative manufacturing technologies and analytical methods, and using process modeling with statistical, data analytics, and data science tools. Technical Product Leadership focuses on end-to-end support of vaccine and biologic products, collaborating with operations and quality groups on strategic projects, examining issues from diverse perspectives, and supporting product transfers within the company’s internal and external manufacturing network.

Requirements

Currently pursuing a bachelor’s or master’s degree in engineering, science, or related disciplines.
No prior experience is required.
Candidates must have superior technical competency as demonstrated by excellent academic record and work achievement.
Candidates must have strong communication skills, personal character, and ethics.

Nice To Haves

Demonstrated skills in computer programming and/or data science & data analytics.
Ability to work independently and in teams.
Effective problem-solving, collaboration, project management, and written and oral communication skills.
Previous process development, research, or manufacturing experience.
Strong technical competency and a desire to innovate.

Responsibilities

Contributes to the performance and results of a department.
Applies technical skills to align activities with department objectives.
Designing and executing process development and characterization studies.
Authoring technical protocols for studies, including ensuring appropriate design of experiments (DoE), sample size selection, and acceptance criteria.
Managing sample submission and tracking.
Employing statistical tools and methods to analyze results.
Authoring technical reports that can be used as source documentation for regulatory filings.
Participation in development and commercial teams (working group/product council).
Presenting study results and conclusions at team (working group/product council) and department meetings.
Ensuring technical information is clearly understood and integrated into decision making.
Supporting computational modeling work.
Authoring or performing second-person review (SPR) for high-quality regulatory submissions.
Works as a team member on manufacturing investigations, validation activities and/or process improvement projects.
Has ability to examine an issue from diverse perspectives (safety, compliance, automation, equipment, process, and people) in order to best understand and resolve the root cause.
Assures consistent application of standardized work, engineering and process tools and procedures.
Authors and updates technical and manufacturing documents necessary for investigations, process design/definition, engineering studies, process demonstrations, change control and validation.
Supports departmental plans and priorities based on team/department scorecard to address local business, service and operational challenges.
Identifies and resolves technical and operational problems using MPS and lean/six sigma tools.
Effectively collaborates with peers on site and above site as required.
Effectively communicates both verbally and written.
Makes decisions – guided by policies, procedures and department objectives.
Consults on an as-needed basis with next-level manager on more complex decisions.
Ensuring safety when performing experiments in the lab and documentation compliance when performing technical writing.
Contributing to a culture of high performance, out of the box thinking, innovation and learning, empowerment, diversity and inclusion.
Bring chemically or biologically derived research and discoveries to production by applying engineering, chemistry, and pharmaceutics skills to characterize and scale-up bench or pilot-scale processes.
Develop, optimize, and implement innovative manufacturing technologies and analytical methods.
Use process modeling combined with statistical, data analytics, and data science tools to analyze and identify insights from process information.
Support process technology development and transfer to commercial operation groups.
Collaborate with operations and quality groups on the execution of strategic projects to ensure a high level of process performance and enhance World Class Supply for commercial products.
Examine an issue from diverse perspectives (safety, compliance, automation, equipment, process, and people) to best understand and resolve the root cause.
Support the transfer of products within the Company’s internal and external manufacturing network and ensure proper knowledge management.