Process Engineering Assistant (Intern)

Catalent•San Diego, CA
•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.
  • Basic knowledge of chemistry and statistics is preferred.
  • 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

  • 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

  • On-site Fitness Center with machines
  • Competitive salary/hourly rate offering students an amazing company to add to your resume before graduation with exciting hands-on lab experience.
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