Pfizer

Technical Specialist

Posted on: 7 Mar 2021

St Louis, MO

Job Description

Why Patients Need You

Our breakthroughs would not make it to the hands of patients without our pharmaceutical manufacturing team. We rely on a team of dedicated and agile members, who understand the importance and impact of their role in Pfizers mission. Patients need colleagues like you who take pride in their work and always look to improve outcomes. You will help to ensure that patients and physicians have the medicines they need, when they need them.

What You Will Achieve

Your knowledge of the manufacturing domain will help in understanding of process equipment and systems, manufacturing operations, and automation control. Your primary responsibility will be to plan for and execute process and equipment operation activities during manufacturing operations. You will assist with production planning and provide / support coordinating production activities, working with the Clinical Manufacturing Team Leads and Process Engineers.

You will provide training for operational qualifications and assist the Team Lead and Process Engineer in assuring all personnel are appropriately trained for the applicable tasks. You will provide process execution and equipment operational activities in support of cGMP (current Good Manufacturing Practices) clinical and /or commercial manufacturing. You will advise management of non-conformance issues and opportunities for continuous improvement. As an associate, your focus on the job will contribute in achieving project tasks and goals. Through your domain knowledge and commitment, you will create a collaborative teaming environment for your colleagues.

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 completion of project milestones and organize own work to meet project task deadlines.
* Assess challenges to the schedule and re-directing activities as necessary to minimize impact to quality, compliance and timelines.
* Capable of detecting technical problems and assisting the appropriate colleagues for resolution.
* Perform routine production preparation tasks such as preparing production glassware and other equipment by operating industrial washers, autoclaves and dehydrogenation ovens, use calibrated scales to weigh out dry components and use graduates and flasks to measure liquids.
* Able to collect and assemble applicable, vital information for recommendations to Production Supervisors and/or Manufacturing Process Engineers to assist in troubleshooting and decision making.
* Organize daily functions and work in concert with Bioprocessing Technicians in executing operational aspects for Fermentation, Purification, and Conjugation processing in a compliant, safe and efficient manner to maintain production schedules.
* Understand scientific principles, operational aspects of production equipment, automation control systems, processing requirements and any related procedural requirements.
* Develop best practices and share with other teams and sites.
* Conduct all activities that are in accordance with company policies and Standard Operating Procedures, Pfizer Values, and global regulatory guidelines, environmental guidelines, as appropriate, etc.
* Perform laboratory activities such as performing sample dilutions, pH, and conductivity readings.
* Provide input and revise Standard Operating Procedures, batch records, forms or other {Current} Good Manufacturing Practices {part of GxP} related documents to support continuous improvement efforts, investigation corrective actions etc.
* Track and follow-up on departmental commitments, investigations, change controls, change control and general compliance initiatives.

Qualifications

Must-Have

* Bachelor's Degree
* Demonstrated experience in Food and Drug Administration regulated industry
* Demonstrated experience within the biopharmaceutical industry, including knowledge and experience with relevant biopharmaceutical unit operations and/or laboratory operations
* Ability to perform mathematical calculations and learn new processes
* Proactive in engagement with key stakeholders
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills
* Ability to efficiently use current computer packages including Excel, PowerPoint, MS Project and Word

Nice-to-Have

* Experience in a biopharmaceutical or pharmaceutical {Current} Good Manufacturing Practices
* Knowledge of operational aspects for Fermentation, Purification, and Chemistry processing

The job is open only to Protected Individuals (as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), namely, Citizens or Nationals of the United States, Lawful Permanent Residents (green card holders), Refugees and Asylees.

Last Date to Apply for Job: March 15, 2021

Eligible Employee Referral Program

Sunshine Act

Pfizer reports payments and other transfers of value to health care providers as required by federal and state transparency laws and implementing regulations. These laws and regulations require Pfizer to provide government agencies with information such as a health care providers name, address and the type of payments or other value received, generally for public disclosure. Subject to further legal review and statutory or regulatory clarification, which Pfizer intends to pursue, reimbursement of recruiting expenses for licensed physicians may constitute a reportable transfer of value under the federal transparency law commonly known as the Sunshine Act. Therefore, if you are a licensed physician who incurs recruiting expenses as a result of interviewing with Pfizer that we pay or reimburse, your name, address and the amount of payments made currently will be reported to the government. If you have questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact your Talent Acquisition representative.

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.

Manufacturing

LI-PFE

Pfizer

New York, New York

Pfizer Inc. develops, manufactures, and sells healthcare products worldwide. It offers medicines and vaccines in various therapeutic areas, including internal medicine, vaccines, oncology, inflammation and immunology, and rare diseases under the Lyrica, Chantix/Champix, Eliquis, Ibrance, Sutent, Xalkori, Inlyta, Xtandi, Enbrel, Xeljanz, Eucrisa, BeneFix, Genotropin, and Refacto AF/Xyntha brands. The company also provides consumer healthcare products that comprise over-the-counter medicines, including dietary supplement products under the Centrum, Caltrate, and Emergen-C names; pain management products under the Advil and ThermaCare names; gastrointestinal products under the Nexium 24HR/Nexium Control and Preparation H names; and respiratory and personal care products under the Robitussin, Advil Cold & Sinus, and ChapStick names. In addition, it offers products that would lose or have lost marketing patent protection; branded generic products; generic sterile injectable products; biosimilars; and anti-infectives under the Lipitor, Premarin family, Norvasc, Lyrica, Celebrex, Viagra, Inflectra/Remsima, Zyvox, Vfend, Revatio, Inspra, Medrol, Sulperazon, Fragmin, Tygacil, Nivestim, and Retacrit, Ixifi Infliximab BS names.

Further, the company is also involved in the contract manufacturing business. It serves wholesalers, retailers, hospitals, clinics, government agencies, pharmacies, and individual provider offices, as well as disease control and prevention centers. The company has collaboration and/or co-promotion agreements with Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Astellas Pharma US, Inc., and Oncolytics Biotech Inc.; licensing agreement with BionTech AG; strategic alliance with Verily Life Sciences LLC; and collaboration agreements with Pfizer, Merck & Co., Inc., and Eli Lilly & Company, as well as with Merck KGaA and Nektar Therapeutics to develop a therapy for treating pancreatic cancer. Pfizer Inc. was founded in 1849 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

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