Associate Scientist - Dissolution

Thermo Fisher Scientific • Boston, MA

12d • Onsite

About The Position

Associate Scientist - Dissolution Position: Shift: Full-Time; Monday – Friday; 8am-5pm EST ONSITE: This is a fully onsite role based at our customer’s site in (Boston, MA). We welcome applicants from all locations within the U.S. Please note that relocation assistance is not provided for this position, and any relocation costs will be the responsibility of the candidate. Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship. Must be able to pass a comprehensive background check, which includes a drug screening. At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life - enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research, development and delivery of life-changing therapies. With clinical trials conducted in 100+ countries and ongoing development of novel frameworks for clinical research through our PPD clinical research portfolio, our work spans laboratory, digital and decentralized clinical trial services. Your determination to deliver quality and accuracy will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on – now and in the future. Thermo Fisher's clinical research business is a leading global contract research organization and world leader in serving science. We are passionate, deliberate, and driven by our mission – to enable our customers to make the world healthier, safer, and cleaner. Our Laboratories Functional Service Partnership (FSP) team plays a direct role in advancing drug development by creating sustained groups of talent within our customers’ organizations to provide long-term support. Through this collaborative approach, our professionals bring their commitment to excellence, industry knowledge, and operational strength directly into customer environments, helping to enhance capabilities and advance the delivery of life-changing therapies.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in lab sciences such as Chemistry, Biochemistry, Material Science, Immunology, Biology, Molecular Biology or similar
• Assoc Scientist: Previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 0-2 years’)
• In some cases, an equivalency, consisting of a combination of appropriate education, training and/or directly related experience, will be considered sufficient for an individual to meet the requirements of the role.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.
• Must be able to pass a comprehensive background check, which includes a drug screening.

Nice To Haves

• The ideal candidate will have proven hands-on experience with laboratory work with the ability to excel in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• As a member of the Formulation Development team, this role will support the drug development programs through dissolution testing and dissolution method development.
• Develops, troubleshoots and conducts dissolution experiments in support of drug product process development
• Performs dissolution stability testing on drug products
• Maintains accurate records of experiments and results in an electronic laboratory notebook and authors reports as assigned
• Designs, executes, and interprets experiments with a high degree of reliability and independence
• Maintains general lab equipment, including HPLCs and dissolution systems.
• Collates and interprets data systematically, and compiles results into conclusions or recommendations for discussion with manager
• Authors and reviews reports, as assigned
• Participates in the preparation of presentations and may present experimental conclusions at internal department or project team meetings
• Demonstrates ability to provide high quality data collected in a compliant fashion in support of regulatory submissions and/or manufacturing
• Demonstrates effective, self-sufficient communication skills, especially in peer/team discussions
• The ability to work in a fast-paced environment, manage priorities, and maintain timelines
• The ability to work successfully in both a team/matrix environme

Benefits

• competitive remuneration
• annual incentive plan bonus
• healthcare
• A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs
• Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement
• At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO)
• 10 paid holidays annually
• paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave)
• accident and life insurance
• short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy
• Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan
• Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level