Engineer, Technical Services - 1st Shift

Viatris•St. Albans, VT

2d•$66,000 - $127,000•Onsite

About The Position

Viatris is a global healthcare company uniquely positioned to bridge the traditional divide between generics and brands, combining the best of both to more holistically address healthcare needs globally. With a mission to empower people worldwide to live healthier at every stage of life, we provide access at scale, currently supplying high-quality medicines to approximately 1 billion patients around the world annually and touching all of life's moments, from birth to the end of life, acute conditions to chronic diseases. The Engineer Technical Services role will make an impact by providing product stewardship through developing subject matter expertise for products and processes. This expertise will be utilized to advance process/product quality, safety, supply, cost of goods, and general continuous improvements. The role involves conducting complex investigations and providing technical evaluations for unplanned manufacturing events, with support from Technical Services staff. It also includes providing Technical Services troubleshooting and completing process improvement projects resulting from those findings. The engineer will lead cross-functional teams, develop detailed timelines for projects, follow up on open actions, publish reports, and escalate when obstacles/challenges arise. They will interface frequently with other departments to lead completion of assigned projects and occasionally represent Tech Services as a team member on sitewide projects. Designing functional requirements, risk assessments, and protocol generation and execution for processes, products, and equipment is also a key part of the role, all within a cGMP environment. The position requires preparing presentations for project updates, including the use of laboratory notebooks, meeting summaries, project status updates, protocols, and reports. Interaction with vendors and outside contractors/consultants is expected as needed. The role will also support project/trial financial estimates, annual budget, and forecast duties. Off-shift/weekend support to Operations may be necessary, as well as providing technical support to regulatory and management staff for MPD pharmaceutical components.

Requirements

Engineering Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) and 5 years of pharmaceutical experience is required.
A combination of experience and/or education will be taken into consideration.
Must possess strong technical knowledge and the ability to think critically.
Must have troubleshooting skills and have solid communication and writing skills.
Must possess computer skills and knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Word, Access, PowerPoint, and Outlook.

Nice To Haves

Preference given to knowledge of statistical software programs (MiniTab).

Responsibilities

Provide product stewardship by developing subject matter expertise for products and processes.
Utilize subject matter expertise to advance process/product quality, safety, supply, cost of goods, and general continuous improvements.
Conduct complex investigations and provide technical evaluations for unplanned manufacturing events, with some support from Technical Services staff.
Provide Technical Services troubleshooting and complete process improvement projects resulting from those findings.
Lead cross-functional teams and develop detailed timelines for projects.
Follow up on open actions, publish reports, and escalate when obstacles/challenges arise.
Interface frequently with other departments to lead completion of assigned projects and occasionally represent Tech Services as a team member on sitewide projects.
Design functional requirements, risk assessments, protocol generation and execution for process, products and equipment.
Document all work appropriately in a cGMP environment.
Prepare presentations for project updates.
Interact with vendor and outside contractors/ consultants as needed.
Support project/trial financial estimates, annual budget and forecast duties.
Provide off-shift / weekend support to Operations as necessary.
Provide technical support to regulatory and management staff for MPD pharmaceutical components.