FSP-Downstream Purification Scientist

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

Job Description

Job Description

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.

Location/Division Specific Information

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 clients to make the world healthier, safer, and cleaner.

Within our Analytical Services team, we have a functional service provider solution, which is an outstanding partnership that allows our customers to use the experience of our staff, while allowing you, the employee, to gain direct experience working onsite at a pharmaceutical/ biopharmaceutical company, all while maintaining full-time benefits.

Discover Impactful Work
The Scientist will perform a variety of routine to complex procedures supporting downstream process characterization activities. The position may additionally support other downstream activities as needed. The scientist will be responsible for execution and documentation of procedures and protocols.

A day in the Life

• Experimentation relating to chromatography, focusing on generating resin lifetime data for late phase process characterization, and small-scale chromatography screening studies.
• Effective troubleshooting of equipment and processing problems with team members.
• Support coordination efforts such as sampling, equipment maintenance, and lab-space organization
• Actively participates in the creation and revision of experimental procedures as needed
• Documenting all activities clearly and accurately within quality framework and authoring technical reports as needed
• Perform duties in a safe and compliant manner and behave in accordance with site SOP’s, EHS standards and guidelines and relevant legal requirements.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification. Previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 2-4+ years).
• Master's degree with 1+ years of relevant experience
• Previous research experience in or directly related to the biopharmaceutical industry
• Experience in experimental design for purification process development.
• Experience running benchtop scale chromatography (flowthrough and affinity) is a plus.
• Working knowledge of statistical approaches
• Experience with authoring / data checking technical documents
• Ability to work on multiple tasks/technologies at a given time

In some cases an equivalency, consisting of a combination of appropriate education, training and/or directly related experience, will be considered sufficient for an individual to meet the requirements of the role.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Demonstrated ability to run processes in modern Biopharmaceutical plants or laboratories
• Previous laboratory-based research experience in an academic or industrial setting
• Basic understanding of cell culture/fermentation and typical protein purification principles
• Demonstrated ability to solve complex technical problems
• Excellent troubleshooting/problem analysis skills
• Logical and independent thinking
• Excellent written and oral communication skills including data and observational recording during experimentation
• Continuously looking for opportunities to learn, build skills and share learning
• Passionate personality and positive attitude
• Demonstrated effective interpersonal and communication skills
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Physical Requirements / Work Environment
Thermo Fisher Scientific values the health and wellbeing of our employees. We support and encourage individuals to create a healthy and balanced environment where they can thrive.  Below is listed the working environment/requirements for this role:

• 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.  

Education:

Biology or Bio-engineering BS is a plus over Chemistry