FSP Scientist: Pre-Formulation

Thermo Fisher Scientific • San Diego, CA

2d • $31 - $39 • Onsite

About The Position

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, or similar
• Scientist: Previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 2-4 years)
• 2+ years of experience in a chemistry, analytical, or characterization laboratory setting desired
• Able to execute experiments efficiently and suggest small process improvements
• Able to recognize patterns or inconsistencies in data results
• Able to deduce meaningful results while conducting routine analyses or troubleshoot minor issues.
• Good knowledge of one scientific discipline
• Developing knowledge of scientific principles, methods and techniques
• Good knowledge and some experience working with discipline specific laboratory equipment/tools
• Ability to work as part of a team
• Good computer skills
• Developing communications, problem-solving, analytical thinking, planning and organization skills
• Detail oriented
• Understands importance of meeting deadlines
• Able to communicate, receive, and understand information and ideas with diverse groups of people in a comprehensible and reasonable manner.
• Able to work upright and stationary and/or standing for typical working hours.
• Able to lift and move objects up to 25 pounds
• Able to work in non-traditional work environments.
• Able to use and learn standard office equipment and technology with proficiency.
• May have exposure to potentially hazardous elements, including infectious agents, typically found in healthcare or laboratory environments.
• Able to perform successfully under pressure while prioritizing and handling multiple projects or activities.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with preformulation and/or characterization equipment such as HPLC, PXRD, DSC, TGA, and SEM a plus
• Familiarity of physical & analytical techniques as they pertain to biopharmaceutical properties.
• Ability to learn quickly and think independently.
• Familiarity with the development and execution of chemical and instrumental methods (e.g. HPLC, Solubility Analysis, DSC, TGA, PXRD, Particle-Size Analysis, GVS, PLM, T3, and SEM) of analyses for development compounds, drug substances, raw materials, intermediates, drug products, and packaging materials.
• Some knowledge of a cGMP-regulated environment, including familiarity of relevant US/EU regulatory and quality requirements, standards, and practices.
• Familiarity with biotech/pharma manufacturing operations and product and process development

Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on laboratory assistance to support preformulation, materials science, and compounding activities for small molecule, peptide, and antibody drug development projects.
• Maintain laboratory equipment, perform calibrations/verifications, and prepare vehicles/buffers/solutions as needed.
• Assist in studies such as solubility, characterization, and preclinical formulation development to support selection and optimization of developable candidates along with other preformulation/characterization studies.
• Create and manage documentation for study planning and organization, laboratory inventory, and instrument maintenance schedules.
• Preparation of solvents, standards, buffers, and other solutions with proper weighing, record-keeping, and adherence of safety protocols
• Operate and maintain laboratory instrumentation and equipment, and facilitate service with technicians as needed
• Collaborate and assist other lab scientists in preparing samples and performing other lab support tasks
• Assemble and maintain documentation of data to allow efficient retrieval of results
• Performs other duties as assigned.

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, and 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