Position Title: Process Development Associate
Work Location: Thousand Oaks, CA 91320
Assignment Duration: 12 Months
Work Arrangement: 100% on-site
Work Schedule: Weekend work required (1-2 weekend days a month for a total of 3-4 hours)
 
Position Summary:
The Pivotal Drug Substance Technologies organization at The Organization develops, characterizes and supports clinical drug substance manufacturing processes for all late-stage programs in the portfolio.
This lab-based position is located at our Thousand Oaks, CA site.
 
Background & Context: Support of the development, characterization, scale-up and support of upstream and downstream processes to enable clinical advancement of programs.
 
Key Responsibilities:

• The successful candidate will design and execute experiments at the bench scale, spanning the end-to-end drug substance process, including both cell culture and purification operations.
• The candidate will apply established platform approaches and utilize problem-solving skills to rapidly solve day-to-day experimental challenges.
• Additionally, the candidate will utilize out-of-the-box thinking to contribute to laboratory operations, especially various yellowbelt and 5S projects.
• Finally, the candidate will also expand and develop skills in both cell culture and purification, thereby further contributing to the integrated group.
• Ideal candidates will: work on culturing mammalian cells, maintaining bioreactors, sampling bioreactors and/or work on protein chromatography, filtration, and UF/DF operations. The candidates will also be involved in lab operations, organization and 5S initiatives.

 
Qualifications & Experience:
 
Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree OR Associate degree and 4 years scientific experience

 
Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in chemical engineering, Biochemical Engineering, Life Sciences, or other relevant sciences with a demonstrated record of excellence.
• Ability to identify, develop and implement solutions to practical problems through application of fundamental scientific and engineering principles, preferably in a process development environment.
• Basic understanding of protein chromatography, filtration or cell culture principles; hands-on experience with purification operations is a plus.
• Familiarity with 5S principles and organization of laboratory workspaces is a plus.
• Prior experience with data analytical tools (Excel, Spotfire, etc.) is preferred. Motivated self-starter with excellent interpersonal and organizational skills.
• Team players with the ability to successfully work within a diverse team in a dynamic, cross-functional environment.

 
 
At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $ 27.00/hr.