Pfizer

Senior 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

You will be part of Pfizer's manufacturing division and support production, business, and other processes in a team-based environment. You will be performing activities in a variety of cross-functional areas, including support of production planning and control, total quality management, systems, manufacturing, equipment and facilities engineering, material management, and process reengineering.

As a Senior Associate, your knowledge and skills will contribute towards the goals and objectives of the team. Your ability to meet team targets will help in completing critical deliverables. Your innovative use of communication tools and techniques will facilitate in solving difficult issues between teams and help in establishing consensus.

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.
* Identify, execute and support continuous improvement opportunities and projects.
* Perform lab qualification work & technical justification for new raw materials.
* Provide Subject Matter Expert support during major investigations.
* Trouble-shoot and provide sustainable solutions for root-cause processing and safety problems.
* Support plant process change overs and plant clean ups.
* Effectively use the site business processes to support production e.g. change control, deviations, six sigma method investigations, etc.
* Ensure alignment between the process, the plant, the automation and process operators to run processes per Process Safety and Product Quality attributes and share best practices with teams.
* Adhere to appropriate levels of current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP).
* Responsible for product knowledge management during tech transfer into the site and during manufacturing campaigns.
* Use computer-based modelling, simulation and analysis to look for improvement opportunities and to analyze problems.
* Work to implement a culture of Right-First Time through partnerships with Operations and provide leadership in the use of Operational Excellence (OE) principles to optimize our technical and business processes.

Qualifications

Must-Have

* Bachelor's Degree
* 3+ years experience
* Demonstrated ability to provide technical solutions for complex problems through product and process knowledge
* Good understanding of process manufacturing/ computer systems
* Demonstrated ability to lead change and strong collaborative skills
* Proactive and effective communication within and across shifts
* Excellent mentoring and interpersonal skills

Nice-to-Have

* Master's degree
* Relevant pharmaceutical industry experience

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 for Employee Referral Program

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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.

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.