When you’re part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll do important work, like helping customers in finding cures for cancer, protecting the environment or making sure our food is safe. Your work will have real-world impact, and you’ll be supported in achieving your career goals.
 

Division Specific Information
Pharmaceutical Services Group
 

How will you make an impact?
Provides routine analyses in a quality control chemistry environment by following standard practices. Perform analytical methods for moderately complex testing on a variety of in process, stability, and release samples. Support internal development and/or manufacturing operations. Make detailed observations and review, documents and communicate test results; recommend solutions.

What will you do?

• Conducts routine chemical and physical testing of finished product samples in support of release and stability testing, by internally developed and compendial test methods.

• Executes validated test methods for finished products for strength, impurities, identity, and dissolution by HPLC, GC, IR, and other traditional quantitative analysis techniques such as Karl Fisher and manual titrations.

• Recognizes and reports out-of-specification or unexpected results and non-routine analytical and product problems.

• Maintain and troubleshoot analytical instrumentation as needed

• Clearly and accurately communicates the results of work by creating documentation of the testing/analysis and obtained results.

• Records and reports results of analysis in accordance with prescribed lab procedures and systems.

• Contributes to writing of SOPs if needed. Cleans and organizes work area, instrumentation, and testing materials. Cleans HPLC and dissolution systems after use.

• Performs all duties in strict compliance with Standard Operating Procedures, Good Manufacturing Practices, Good Laboratory Practices, and Safety guidelines.

• Maintains the necessary compliance status required by company and facility standards.

How will you get here?
Education
Bachelor’s degree in life science, preferably in Chemistry.Associates degree in chemistry or biology-related discipline required.

Experience

• Three (3) to five (5) years’ of experience in a laboratory environment.

• Experience performing chemical tests with chromatographic, spectroscopic, or other analytical techniques, specifically HPLC testing, manual titration, Karl Fisher, and Coulometric testing.

• Experience with Empower is preferred.

Equivalent combinations of education, training, and relevant work experience may be considered.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Knowledge and understanding of Chemistry and analytical instrumental technologies.

• Knowledge of qualitative and quantitative chemical or microbiological analysis.

• Awareness of quality and regulatory requirements in the pharmaceutical industry, including pharmaceutical GMPs and descriptive organic chemistry.

• Good problem-solving skills and logical approach to solving scientific problems.

• Proficiency with HPLC, Karl fisher, and wet chemistry techniques.

• Ability to write standard operating procedures

• Ability to read and interpret technical procedures and governmental regulations.

• Ability to apply mathematical operations to such tasks as determination of test reliability, analysis of variance, and correlation techniques.

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