Senior Process Engineer

Senior Process Engineer position at PerkinElmer, working within the Technical Lab Services (TLS) division, collaborating with a research unit at a customer site, and supporting R&D and manufacturing activities for pharmaceutical companies. The role involves laboratory experimentation, analytical testing, process development, and automation, with a focus on lyophilized drug product dosage forms and other Steriles process development. The ideal candidate will have strong communication and interpersonal skills, a self-motivated attitude, and experience in process development optimization, specifically lyophilized drug product manufacturing processes.

Requirements

• Conduct laboratory experimentation and analytical testing of putative formulations & drug products, and combination assessment in collaboration with device engineering.
• Work on developing processes for lyophilized drug product dosage forms and other Steriles process development.
• Platform development workstreams to assess, develop and implement new manufacturing platforms.
• Drug Product technology transfer activities and reports as appropriate for transfer/scale-up to the manufacturing site (internal or external).
• Preparation and review of developmental and manufacturing batch records, SOPs, and regulatory documentation as appropriate.
• Automate developmental work packages and establish control strategies through the development and maintenance of system modeling platforms.
• Make innovative contributions to the department by leading platform development workstreams to assess, develop and implement new manufacturing/PAT platforms, for example lyophilization.
• Author reports relevant to Process Engineering and analytics platforms.
• Track assay performance metrics and communicate issues and suggest improvements to current assay methodology, supporting evaluation of new technologies where applicable.
• Comply with Health and Safety procedures for own well-being and quality of product.
• Actively seek opportunities to develop the service by discussion with the team leader and customer or by sharing the best practice with other groups.
• Act as an ambassador for TLS and promote PerkinElmer’s core values.
• Operate to approved quality standards.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• 401(k) matching
• Paid time off
• Life insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Disability insurance
• Paid holidays