Associate Scientist, Process Development Downstream

Avid Bioservices•Tustin, CA

3d•$94,400 - $118,000•Onsite

About The Position

Within Process Development, the Associate Scientist, Process Development - Downstream in the Purification Process Development lab will design, optimize scales and transfer downstream processes for mAb development programs.

Requirements

PhD degree, with preferred 2 years of process development and/or similar experience or: Master’s degree and minimum 2 years; with preferred 4 years of process development and/or similar experience or: Bachelor’s degree and minimum of 4 years; preferred 6 years of process development and/or similar experience.

Nice To Haves

Process development experience.
You have a "bring it on!" team player approach and an unshakable positive attitude, always ready to tackle anything that comes your way.
Your written and verbal skills are out of this world, and you communicate with clarity and confidence.
You have exceptional multitasking skills and an unparalleled attention to detail that ensure the smooth running of everything.
You are a master at building relationships, capable of establishing connections with anyone, be it team members, clients, vendors, or suppliers.

Responsibilities

Applies established platform approaches and utilizes problem-solving skills to rapidly solve day- to day experimental challenges.
Performs experiments at the bench scale, spanning the end-to-end downstream drug substance process.
Applies fundamental scientific and engineering principles to purification processes to support process development and process characterization, evaluate process improvements and resolve potential processing issues.
Designs suitable experiments and analyzes results to draw meaningful conclusions.
Communicates work through oral presentations and written documentation including technical reports and GMP documents to support regulatory filings.
Participate with cross-functional teams and interact with representatives from Process Development, Project Management, Manufacturing, and Quality to arrive at and implement viable/practical solutions to support clinical/commercial manufacturing.
Provides scientific technical support for technology transfer of processes to manufacturing.
Demonstrates the desire to expand and develop skills in purification.
Utilizes out-of-the-box thinking to contribute to technology development.
Familiarity with design of experiments and statistical analysis of data.
May be the primary project contact with a client and must be able to articulate the science and problem solving.
May supervise laboratory assistants or research associates but primarily would be an individual contributor.
Other duties may be assigned.