Quality Control Associate Scientist, Analytical Chemistry

Why Patients Need You

Pfizer’s purpose is to deliver breakthroughs that change patients’ lives. Research and Development is at the heart of fulfilling Pfizer’s purpose as we work to translate advanced science and technologies into the therapies and vaccines that matter most. Whether you are in the discovery sciences, ensuring drug safety and efficacy or supporting clinical trials, you will apply cutting edge design and process development capabilities to accelerate and bring the best in class medicines to patients around the world.

What You Will Achieve

You will be a member of Pfizer’s dedicated and highly effective quality assurance and control team. You will be responsible for analyzing chemical, biological or microbiological products to support our quality programs. Your contribution to environmental testing, utility monitoring, and analytical 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. You will also be relied on for setting requirements for the transfer of methodology from R&D. As an Associate scientist, your significant experience of applying knowledge of principles, concepts, and practices of the discipline will make you a critical member of the team. Your skill and knowledge will help in making decisions that require choosing among limited options. Your being proactive in team discussions will help in creating an environment of collaboration. It is your hard work and focus that will make Pfizer ready to achieve new milestones and help patients across the globe

How You Will Achieve It

• 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.
• Responsible for detailing requirements for Laboratory Information Management System builds, building, testing and managing its Master Data changes.
• 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.
• 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 communications.

QualificationsMust-Have

• Bachelor's Degree in Science field
• 3+ years' 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 cGMP, Data Integrity and quality systems
• Ability to establish relationships within business lines
• Excellent effective written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills

Nice-to-Have

• Experience in Quality Operations preferred.
• Laboratory experience, including HPLC preferred

  
 

PHYSICAL/MENTAL REQUIREMENTS

Lifting, sitting, standing, walking, bending. Ability to follow written instructions, perform mathematical calculations and ability to perform data analysis

NON-STANDARD WORK SCHEDULE, TRAVEL OR ENVIRONMENT REQUIREMENTS

Applicant must be able to work rotating first and second shifts.

Other Job Details:

• Last Date to Apply for Job: September 20, 2021
• Eligible for Employee Referral Bonus: Yes

Pfizer requires all U.S. new hires to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 prior to the first date of employment.  As required by applicable law, Pfizer will consider requests for Reasonable Accommodations.

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EEO & Employment Eligibility

Pfizer is committed to equal opportunity in the terms and conditions of employment for all employees and job applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, gender identity or gender expression, national origin, disability or veteran status.  Pfizer also complies with all applicable national, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act and IRCA.  Pfizer is an E-Verify employer.

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