Specialist, Engineering

The Specialist, Engineering, will be responsible for support of production of live virus vaccines within bulk vaccine production and/or final formulation and filling operations. This engineer will be a member of the Technical Services Deviation Management team in the Live Virus Vaccine Manufacturing End-to-End at the West Point site.  The primary responsibility of the individual will be investigation initiation and closure associated with manufacturing deviations and development of actions in response to these deviations. Support will be focused on the Deviation Management process including operations support, equipment troubleshooting, implementation of process/ equipment actions, and other related duties.  This position will require development of technical expertise of corresponding IPT operations. Limited off-shift or weekend coverage may be required based on business unit needs and specific assignments.

• →Leads and/or works as a team member on manufacturing investigations and/or process improvement projects.
• →Demonstrates the ability to examine issues from multiple perspectives, including safety, compliance, automation, equipment, process, and personnel considerations, in order to accurately identify and resolve root causes.
• →Assures consistent application of standardized work, engineering and process tools.
• →Provides technical support to manufacturing shop floor for problems and issues.  
• →Conducts and designs experimental protocols as needed using the Technical Operations lab facilities and/or production equipment at full scale.
• →Authors and updates technical and manufacturing documents necessary for investigations, process design/definition, engineering studies, process demonstrations, change control and validation.

• B.S. degree in Engineering or Sciences.

• Minimum one (1) year post-bachelor’s degree experience in a GMP (good manufacturing practices) manufacturing and/or technical support of GMP manufacturing operations
• Demonstrated ability to drive results
• Strong communication, collaboration skills and ability to drive accountability
• Strong problem-solving skillset

• Vaccine manufacturing
• Sterile processing
• Experience authoring investigations

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