Senior Microbiologist - Sanford, United States - Insight Global

Description

Must Haves:

• High School Diploma (or Equivalent) and 8 years of relevant experience OR an Associate's degree with 6 years of experience OR a Bachelor's with at least 3 years of experience OR Master's with more than 1 year of experience.
• Experience within the biopharmaceutical industry, including knowledge and experience relevant to biopharmaceutical unity operations and/or laboratory operations.
• Demonstrated experience in manufacturing, quality or engineering experience in the biotech or pharmaceutical industry.
• Understanding of aseptic laboratory techniques and quality systems
• Ability to establish relationships within business lines.
• Excellent effective written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills

Plusses:

• 5+ years of experience in Microbiology laboratory analysis
• Experience dealing with Quality Operations and Quality Assurance
• Experience in training other employees in microbial assays.
• Experience in review of Microbiology analysis data

Job Description:

As a Microbiology Senior Scientist, you will be a member of the quality assurance and control team. You will be responsible for analyzing drug product, drug substance and environmental monitoring microbiological contamination to support our quality programs. Your contribution to environmental testing, bioburden testing, endotoxin testing, microbial identifications, and sterility testing will help Pfizer provide safe drugs to patients. Your understanding of Quality Control instruments will help us meet their accuracy specifications against established standards. This role will be Wednesday - Saturday, 10 hour shifts.

• Contribute to the completion of complex projects, manage own time to meet agreed targets and develop plans for work activities on own projects within a team.
• Analyze and interpret results, makes decisions regarding the accuracy, completeness and compliance.
• Serve on cross functional teams to represent Quality Control and facilitate communications and activities/projects between Quality Control and site departments and/or Network.
• Assist Lab leadership in determining scheduling priorities and workload distribution to ensure customer needs are met.
• Perform tasks associated with maintaining current Good Manufacturing Practices compliant Quality Control and Stability laboratories.
• Able to create, review, and approve compliant test method transfer and validation protocols and reports and equipment qualification/computer validation records.
• Train junior colleagues and develop training plans and oversee training activities for groups.
• Responsible for contributing to and/or handle laboratory investigations for events and Out of Specification results.
• Perform testing including, but not limited to clinical and/or commercial product, raw materials and validation samples.
• Perform laboratory support functions and maintain work area in a neat and orderly manner.
• Write Standard Operating Procedures, technical reports, project plans and other documents independently