Process Engineering Assistant (Intern)

Catalent Pharma Solutions • San Diego, CA

9d • 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 pre-formulation 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 equipment and systems. Process Engineering Assistants (Interns) will have the opportunity to support R&D scale-up and process development by drafting, executing, and documenting development batch records, performing routine experiments, and generating technical reports under engineering or chemistry supervision. 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 (ideally third year) Engineering student. Chemical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering majors preferred.
• Completion of college level science lab and familiarity with basic lab equipment.
• Availability to work 15-20 hours per week on-site during the hours of 8am-5pm, Monday-Friday (no exceptions)

Nice To Haves

• Basic knowledge of chemistry and statistics is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Draft development batch records (DBRs) for R&D scale up experiments.
• Document experiments in DBRs under the supervision of a full-time engineer.
• May perform routine experiments without supervision.
• Assist in experimentation and development activities under the supervision of a full-time pharmaceutical process engineer or chemist.
• Complete executed DBRs and generate technical reports.
• Setup, breakdown, and cleaning of designated manufacturing/laboratory equipment.
• Maintain a clean and organized laboratory workspace.
• Work with engineering team to troubleshoot and maintain manufacturing/laboratory equipment.
• Work on process improvement projects for the Process Engineering team.
• Learn and comply with all cGMP practices in use at Catalent San Diego.
• All duties performed in compliance with SOPs
• Other duties as assigned

Benefits

• Awesome employee activities: Movie Day, Monthly Birthday Celebrations, Friday Bagel Breakfast, On-site Fitness Center with machines, Sponsored Sports Teams, and several other company-sponsored events that encourages positive employee comradery, which contributes to effectively building positive employee relationships, overall creating a positive work environment.
• Environmentally friendly green initiatives with on-site practices as well as regularly participating in Beach Clean-up activities for community engagement.
• Several Employee Resource Groups focusing on Diversity and Inclusion.
• 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!
• Paid work experience
• Professional development and science communication training through a UC San Diego course for academic credit (Co-Op Program)

What This Job Offers

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