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Company : The Fountain Group LLC
The Fountain Group is currently seeking a Scientist for a prominent client of ours. This position is located in Elkton, VA. Details for the position are as follows:
Job Description:
Monday-Friday 1st shift
Join our Process Development Team in using a variety of fermentation techniques, purification techniques, and characterization methods to support commercial and bench scale pharmaceutical processes.
This position will report to the Technical Operations Department and will support pharmaceutical manufacturing as part of a multidisciplinary team.
The PD team uses a scale down model to provide investigation support, promote process understanding, and facilitate technology transfer of products to the Elkton site.
We work with teams across the network to bridge process, quality, and analytical principles and synthesize these into a focused laboratory that provides high quality support to realize the sustained production of medication for patients.
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
Balance and prioritize competing deliverables
Commit to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace
7 POSITIONS AVAILALABLE:
2 positions will support upstream fermentation/cell culture
2 positions will support downstream purification/filtration
2 positions will support analytical characterization & testing
1 position will support laboratory operations
Qualifications:
BS or MS in a life science
The candidate will have a fundamental knowledge of fermentation and cell culture, protein chemistry and purification, analytical techniques and/or laboratory operations.
Compensation: $24-34 an hour depending on experince