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Engineer III, Drug Product Development

Employer
Moderna, Inc.
Location
Norwood, MA
Start date
Feb 2, 2023

Job Details

The Role:

Moderna is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Scientist or Engineer to join our Drug Product Development (DPD) team in Norwood, MA. To support Modernas exciting pipeline of products, the DPD team works to develop, characterize, and implement robust clinical/commercial manufacturing processes. From pre-clinical through commercialization, DPD is accountable for product image definition, formulation development, process development, characterization and scale up as well as technology transfer. The focus of this role will be management of external partners/3rd parties to support multiple programs at various stages of clinical development as well as supporting product development and program progression through planning and executing studies in the laboratory, and the authoring of protocols, reports and regulatory documentation.

Heres What Youll Do:

  • Drive interactions with external partners, manage the development and validation of methods and testing, ensure studies with external partners are planned, executed and documented.

  • Enable development of container closure options for Moderna clinical and commercial products by establishing test protocols and procedures as well as partnerships with external partners as required.

  • Design, execute, and document studies to characterize and/or scale-up various fill/finish unit operations (freeze/thaw, mixing, filtration, filling, visual inspection, etc.)

  • Develop approaches and execute studies to evaluate the compatibility of Drug Product with processing materials, container closure components, and sterilization processes.

  • Participate in Drug Product teams responsible for Drug Product formulation and process development for pipeline and lifecycle management projects

  • Maintain meticulous records through ELN and report authoring to ensure documentation compliance in support of cGMP activities

  • Lead multiple activities in parallel to drive projects to completion, meeting timelines and key deliverables

  • Support authoring and review of regulatory submissions

Heres What Youll Bring to the Table:

  • Masters or Bachelors or Masters Degree in Chemical/Biomedical Engineering, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Biochemistry, or related discipline with a minimum of 5 (Bachelors) or 2 (Masters) years industry experience in biopharmaceutical development

  • Exceptional laboratory skills and demonstrated knowledge in fill/finish unit operation characterization and scale up

  • Hands-on experience with aseptic liquid filling of vials, pre-filled syringes, and/or cartridges. Familiar with current varieties and suppliers of parenteral container closure systems.

  • Experience in clinical or commercial Drug Product (or related) GMP technology transfer and validation would be a plus.

  • Ability to perform data analysis using advanced statistical, including design of experiments (DoE) approaches leveraging statistical analysis software

  • Knowledge of GMP and GLP compliance

Moderna is pleased to provide you and your family with a comprehensive and innovative suite of benefits, including:

  • Highly competitive and inclusive medical, dental and vision coverage options
  • Flexible Spending Accounts for medical expenses and dependent care expenses
  • Lifestyle Spending Account funds to help you engage in personal enrichment and self-care activities
  • Family care benefits, including subsidized back-up care options and on-demand tutoring
  • Free premium access to fitness, nutrition, and mindfulness classes
  • Exclusive preferred pricing on Peloton fitness equipment
  • Adoption and family-planning benefits
  • Dedicated care coordination support for our LGBTQ+ community
  • Generous paid time off, including:
    Vacation, sick time and holidays
    Volunteer time to participate within your community
    Discretionary year-end shutdown
    Paid sabbatical after 5 years; every 3 years thereafter
  • Generous Paid Leave offerings, including 18 weeks of 100% paid parental leave for all new parents
  • 401k match and Financial Planning tools
  • Moderna-paid Life, LTD and STD insurance coverages, as well as voluntary benefit options
  • Complimentary concierge service including home services research, travel booking, and entertainment requests
  • Free parking or subsidized commuter passes
  • Location-specific perks and extras!

Candidates should be aware that Moderna currently maintains a policy requiring all US-based employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and receive a booster shot once eligible. Newly hired employees must be vaccinated and boosted prior to their employment start date. Moderna is an equal opportunity employer and will provide a reasonable accommodation to those unable to be vaccinated or receive a booster where it is not an undue hardship to the company to do so as provided under federal, state, and local law.

About Moderna

In over 10 years since its inception, Moderna has transformed from a research-stage company advancing programs in the field of messenger RNA (mRNA), to an enterprise with a diverse clinical portfolio of vaccines and therapeutics across seven modalities, a broad intellectual property portfolio in areas including mRNA and lipid nanoparticle formulation, and an integrated manufacturing plant that allows for rapid clinical and commercial production at scale. Moderna maintains alliances with a broad range of domestic and overseas government and commercial collaborators, which has allowed for the pursuit of both groundbreaking science and rapid scaling of manufacturing. Most recently, Moderna's capabilities have come together to allow the authorized use and approval of one of the earliest and most effective vaccines against the COVID-19 pandemic.

Moderna's mRNA platform builds on continuous advances in basic and applied mRNA science, delivery technology and manufacturing, and has allowed the development of therapeutics and vaccines for infectious diseases, immuno-oncology, rare diseases, cardiovascular diseases and autoimmune diseases. Moderna has been named a top biopharmaceutical employer by Science for the past seven years. To learn more, visit www.modernatx.com.

Moderna is a smoke-free, alcohol-free and drug-free work environment.

Moderna is committed to equal employment opportunity and non-discrimination for all employees and qualified applicants without regard to a persons race, color, gender, age, religion, national origin, ancestry, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation or any characteristic protected under applicable law. Moderna will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities, in accordance with applicable law.

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Company

Moderna is advancing messenger RNA (mRNA) science to create a new class of transformative medicines for patients. Moderna’s platform builds on continuous advances in basic and applied mRNA science, delivery technology and manufacturing, providing the Company the capability to pursue in parallel a robust pipeline of new development candidates. Moderna is developing therapeutics and vaccines for infectious diseases, immuno-oncology, rare diseases and cardiovascular diseases, independently and with strategic collaborators.

mRNA is now a turning point in the history of science, medicine, technology, even humankind itself. With this breakthrough discovery, many of the world’s biggest and most challenging medical problems are no longer a question of “how?” but merely a question of “when?”

Come with us as we pursue the uncharted reaches of possibility and make your mark on the future of medicine.

 

Stock Symbol:

MRNA  

Stock Exchange:

USNASDAQ GS

 

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Website
Phone
617-714-6500
Location
200 Technology Square
Cambridge, MA
United States

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