Engineer I

Our client, one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the U.S., is looking for an Engineer I which is located at Elkton, VA. The candidate will have a fundamental knowledge of fermentation and cell culture, protein chemistry and purification, analytical techniques and/or laboratory operations.

Job Title: Engineer I
Location: Elkton, VA
Pay rate: $34/HR

About the Role:
As a member of Process Development, the primary goal of the position is to:

• Characterize proteins, VLPs and constituent components with a variety of analytical techniques.
• Participate in/drive fermentation and/or purification of proteins/VLPs at lab and pilot scale.
• Provide support for execution of process development activities and manufacturing investigations.
• Perform laboratory scale studies.
• Design and troubleshoot experiments.
• Employ excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Author laboratory notebooks and technical documents
• Work both independently and within multidisciplinary team.
• Produce high quality work against firm deadlines.
• Maintain good sample handling practices.

• Education Minimum Requirement: A bachelor’s degree in a relevant scientific discipline (biochemistry, chemistry, biology), life sciences, Engineering
• Wet chemistry laboratory skills (pipetting, buffer preparation, filtration, dilution, stoichiometry)
• Proficiency with technical writing and laboratory records (laboratory notebooks, chemical inventory, data management)
• Excellent collaborative and team-working skills
• Strong technical problem-solving abilities, data interpretation and presentation competence Preferred Experience and Skills:
• Experience working with analytical instrumentation (plate readers, densitometers, thermocyclers, cIEF, UV/Vi’s spectrophotometers, HPLC/ UPLC systems)
• Experience working with tangential flow filtration processing – microfiltration/ultrafiltration.
• Experience working with protein purification.
• Experience working with column chromatography and AKTA/Unicorn systems.
• Experience performing fermentation or cell culture studies at the labs scale.
• Experience performing fermentation or cell culture studies using shake flasks.
• Knowledge of yeast fermentation and metabolism
• Experience working in GMP and GLP environments.
• Experience with laboratory operations.
• Experience with facility operations.
• Experience working in an industry environment.
• Experience conducting laboratory scale process characterization studies.
• Experience troubleshooting technical issues (experimental, equipment-related issues).

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