Merck & Co Hiring for Senior Scientist/Engineer – Upstream Vaccine Process Development job in West Point Full Time

Job Description

Applications are sought for an opportunity in the Vaccine Process Development (VPD) department, which is part of the company’s Research Labs (Research Division) of our company.- The individual will support our company’s discovery & development efforts for Vaccine programs at West Point, PA.-

The successful candidate is expected to work with other upstream scientists and engineers, typically focusing on one to two vaccine programs at a time, while also supporting the overall program management and governance activities across larger multi-functional and cross-divisional teams.– The candidate must have the ability to work independently and as part of a team, self-motivation, adaptability, and a positive attitude.- The candidate must have the ability to learn new techniques, to balance multiple projects, to keep accurate records, to follow instructions, and to comply with company policies.- The successful candidate will possess proven ability to work in a hands-on laboratory setting and excellent organization, interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills.–

• Design, execute, and analyze process development experiments to maximize understanding of cell culture and fermentation processes to make vaccine products
• Contribute to the development of new principles, concepts, and methods to enable process development, scale-up of processes to pilot scale, and technology transfer to manufacturing scale
• Conduct laboratory bench work to execute, optimize, and troubleshoot cell culture or fermentation processes
• Analyze, summarize, and present experimental results in a collaborative team environment
• Interface with multidisciplinary groups and coordinate multiple program activities with Process Research & Development (R&D), Analytical R&D, Vaccine Basic Research and various functional groups within our company.
• Supervise/Mentor the work of junior staff in the laboratory settings.- Provide technical guidance in the various aspects of the upstream process development of the vaccine candidate

Position requires employee to be willing to work with infectious agents and/or pathogens.- Occasional travel and off hour/weekend work will be required.

Education Minimum:-

• BS or MS or Ph.D in relevant field
• Engineering: Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering, Biomedical Engineering-
• Science and Technology: Cell Biology, Biological Sciences, Biotechnology

Qualifications:

• For BS, at least six (6) years of experience in bioprocess/biotechnology-related position (vaccines and/or therapeutic proteins)
• For MS, at least five (5) years of experience in bioprocess/biotechnology-related position (vaccines and/or therapeutic proteins)
• Strong scientific understanding of fermentation and cell culture processes. Must have- experience with hands-on bioprocess development.
• Excellent scientific understanding of cell biology including cell metabolism and molecular biology
• Demonstrated proficiency in bench scale bioreactor, shake flask, or other cell propagation system- for the optimization of cell culture or fermentation processes

Preferred Experience and Skills:

• Prior experience in optimizing recombinant protein expression (quality and quantity of product).
• Prior experience with fermentation bioprocesses (E. coli, Yeast).
• Prior experience applying Omics to solve bioprocess challenges.
• Ability to interface with discovery colleagues to influence pre-clinical development (expression system selection, protein engineering, etc.).

Your role at our company is integral to helping the world meet new breakthroughs that affect generations to come, and we’re counting on your skills and inventiveness to help make meaningful contributions to global medical advancement. At our company, we’re inventing for life.

We are a research-driven biopharmaceutical company. Our mission is built on the simple premise that if we “follow the science” that great medicines can make a significant impact to our world. We believe that a research-driven enterprise dedicated to world-class science can succeed by inventing medicine and vaccine innovations that make a difference for patients across the globe.

Who we are …

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world’s most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

What we look for …

Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us-and start making your impact today.

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Employees working in roles that the Company determines require routine collaboration with external stakeholders, such as customer-facing commercial, or research-based roles, will be expected to comply not only with Company policy but also with policies established by such external stakeholders (for example, a requirement to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to access a facility or meet with stakeholders). -Please understand that, as permitted by applicable law, if you have not been vaccinated against COVID-19 and an essential function of your job is to call on external stakeholders who require vaccination to enter their premises or engage in face-to-face meetings, then your employment may pose an undue burden to business operations, in which case you may not be offered employment, or your employment could be terminated. Please also note that, where permitted by applicable law, the Company reserves the right to require COVID-19 vaccinations for positions, such as in Global Employee Health, where the Company determines in its discretion that the nature of the role presents an increased risk of disease transmission.

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Employee Status:
Regular

Relocation:
Domestic/International

VISA Sponsorship:
No

Travel Requirements:
10%

Flexible Work Arrangements:
On-Site

Shift:
1st – Day

Valid Driving License:
Yes

Hazardous Material(s):
BSL-2

Requisition ID:R234762