Manufacturing Associate - All Levels - Days

Lonza•Portsmouth, NH

1d•Onsite

About The Position

At Lonza Portsmouth, you won’t just make medicine — you will help shape the future of how it is made. Our site is uniquely positioned at the intersection of personalized Cell Therapy and large-scale Mammalian biologics manufacturing. In one facility, we produce both patient-specific, life-saving cell therapies and high-volume biologic medicines used by people around the world. That means your career here doesn’t live in a single box — it grows across platforms, technologies, and modalities. Your responsibilities will scale with your experience and may span both Cell Therapy and Mammalian Manufacturing depending on business needs and your career path.

Requirements

High School Diploma required for all levels
Foundational / Early-Career: No prior biotech experience required. We look for high attention to detail, reliability, and an interest in learning a highly specialized life-science trade.
Intermediate (Level II / III): 1–5 years of experience in regulated manufacturing or clinical labs.
Advanced / Senior: 5+ years of GMP experience. Track record of leading complex operations, mentoring others, and owning deviations.

Nice To Haves

Associate’s or Bachelor’s in STEM preferred for intermediate and advanced roles.
Experience with aseptic technique, cleanrooms, or bioreactors is a plus.

Responsibilities

Work in Grade B cleanrooms requiring full sterile gowning.
Perform aseptic processing inside laminar flow hoods using strict sterile technique.
Receive, process, expand, and cryopreserve patient-derived primary cells.
Execute flawless cGMP documentation for individualized patient batches.
Operate mammalian cell culture bioreactors (2,000, 6,000, and 20,000).
Execute both upstream and downstream processes.
Set up, operate equipment, and monitor production processes, including clean-in-place (CIP) and steam-in-place (SIP) operations and report production in written and electronic documents in accordance with good manufacturing practice (GMPs) and good documentation procedures (GDPs).
Conduct in-process testing pH, conductivity, metabolites, etc.