Formulation Associate

Merck•Indianapolis, IN

About The Position

Work Your Magic with us! Start your next chapter and join EMD Serono. Ready to explore, break barriers, and discover more? We know you’ve got big plans – so do we! Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people’s lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix of people, customers, patients, and planet. That's why we are always looking for curious minds that see themselves imagining the unimaginable with us. United As One for Patients, our purpose in Healthcare is to help create, improve and prolong lives. We develop medicines, intelligent devices and innovative technologies in therapeutic areas such as Oncology, Neurology and Fertility. Our teams work together across 6 continents with passion and relentless curiosity in order to help patients at every stage of life. Joining our Healthcare team is becoming part of a diverse, inclusive and flexible working culture, presenting great opportunities for personal development and career advancement across the globe. This role does not offer sponsorship for work authorization. External applicants must be eligible to work in the US.

Requirements

Bachelors Degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chemical Engineering, Biochemical Engineering, or other Engineering discipline.
1+ years of experience in engineering, pharmaceutical formulation and process development.

Nice To Haves

3+ years of experience in engineering, pharmaceutical formulation and process development.
Experience with LIMS or Minitab.
Experience performing root cause analysis for investigations.
Experience with statistical designs of experiments (DOE) methodology.

Responsibilities

Execute developmental and investigational tasks through Quality by Design (QbD)approaches utilizing DOE principles. Associated tasks include formulation development, process design and engineering, equipment specification and engineering, data collection and analysis, generation and testing of critical process parameters (CPPs) to match the critical product attributes (CPAs) of the final drug product.
Provide technical support via lab-scale execution for the manufacturing processes, including process investigations, process changes, and technical transfer and scaleup of new product introductions.
Adapt formulation solutions to complex products through guidance from senior scientific staff and collaborators
Develop efficient, appropriate formulation procedures and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for new equipment/processes as well as update of existing SOPs.
Partner with the analytical technical services group to perform sample analyses in support of formulation development, in-process sampling and stability testing of final drug products/samples.
Present quality written documentation, notebooks, methods, data reports and summaries.
Report and treat data with a high level of integrity and ethics
Discuss routinely with supervisor, project manager and peers the status of the assigned programs and potential problems.
Communicate effectively on research results, issues, and plans.
Conduct laboratory operations in a safe manner.
Maintain compliance with the Chemical Hygiene Plan.
Exhibit safety awareness and safe work practices.
Follow responsible actions regarding chemical disposal in close collaboration with the EHS staff.
Maintain compliance with appropriate SOP’s.
The person may also be expected to interface with external clients and contractors in support of existing projects.