Lab Assistant (Intern), Quality Control

Catalent • San Diego, CA

4d • Onsite

About The Position

Catalent, Inc. is a leading global Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO), and Catalent’s San Diego facility focuses on early-stage development of small molecule and peptide drug candidates from the bench to the clinic. This facility offers an array of services that support oral and injectable dosage forms that include preformulation testing, formulation and analytical development, cGMP manufacturing and clinical packaging, labeling, and worldwide distribution. Our San Diego location is the home of our Catalent Spray Drying technologies with downstream roller compaction capabilities to support the needs of our client’s most challenging compounds. Catalent offers students a fun and stimulating environment to gain lab experience and exposure to pharmaceutical chemistry development. Lab Assistants will have the opportunity to learn about formulation development of drug products, including but not limited to tableting, solutions, suspensions, encapsulation, and spray drying. In addition, Assistants will have the opportunity to learn the analytical chemistry techniques used to characterize active pharmaceutical ingredients and formulations such as: pH, density, powder X-ray diffraction, thermal analysis, microscopy, and dissolution testing. If you are a UC San Diego student and are hired, you are likely eligible to enroll in the UC San Diego School of Biological Sciences Co-Op Program. In addition to paid work experience at Catalent, you’d gain professional development and science communication training through a UC San Diego course for academic credit. This is a PART TIME, PAID, YEAR-ROUND student internship, and all students are required to commit 15-20 hours per week (NOTE: bachelor’s degree graduates will not be considered). To be considered for this San Diego-based internship, you must be able to work on-site weekly.

Requirements

• Must currently be a full time, minimum second year college student with a major in life sciences.
• Chemistry, Biochemistry, or Biology majors (with a focus in Chemistry) preferred.
• Completion of Upper Division Chemistry Coursework is preferred.
• Prior experience in chemistry and chemistry lab techniques are strongly recommended.
• Candidates should be highly self-motivated, organized, and able to work as part of a team
• Availability to work 15-20 hours per week on-site during the hours of 8am-5pm, Monday-Friday (no exceptions)
• Housing assistance and/or relocation are NOT available for this role

Responsibilities

• Cleaning laboratory glassware and supplies.
• Performing maintenance on designated laboratory equipment and ordering supplies.
• Preparation of buffers and laboratory reagents.
• Documenting experiments in a laboratory notebook.
• Assistance in experiments under the supervision of a full-time pharmaceutical chemist or quality control analyst.
• May also perform routine experiments without supervision.
• Learn and comply with all GMP practices in use at Catalent.
• All duties performed in compliance with SOPs.

Benefits

• Competitive salary/hourly rate offering students an amazing company to add to your resume before graduation with exciting hands-on lab experience.
• Positive and fast-paced working environment focusing on continually improving processes to remain innovative and dynamic.
• Rewarding opportunities to further your career!
• Join the global drug development and delivery leader and help us bring over 7,000 life-saving and life-enhancing products to patients around the world.
• Catalent is an exciting and growing international company where employees work directly with pharma, biopharma and consumer health companies of all sizes to advance new medicines from early development to clinical trials and to the market.
• Catalent produces more than 70 billion doses per year, and each one will be used by someone who is counting on us.
• Join us in making a difference.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Intern
• Education Level: Associate degree