Engineer I

Job Title Engineer I -(Assistant)  

Location: Elkton, VA 22827

12 Months   

Shift Hours: Rotating 12 Hour Shift (6am – 6pm or 2pm-2am; 7 days a week)

Qualifications

Education and Experience Requirements:

• B.S. or M.S. degree in, biology, biochemistry, biochemical engineering, biological systems engineering, biomedical engineering, chemical engineering, computer science, integrated science, or related disciplines and 0-3 years of relevant industrial experience.
  
  

The Successful Candidate Must Have

• Excellent academic record
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, team skills, personal character, and ethics
• Strong problem solving skills and a hands-on approach to problem solving, with a bias towards going to see problems for oneself in the field.
• Ability to examine an issue from diverse perspectives (safety, compliance, maintenance, automation, equipment, process, and people) in order to best understand and resolve it.
• Enthusiasm, confidence, and initiative-taking ability needed for continuous learning and its applications.
• Strong desire to succeed and to help others to do the same.
  
  

Preferred Experiences

• Experience working in a cGMP environment
• Work, co-op, or internship experience in industry
  
  

Responsibilities

Providing technical support for vaccine, biologic, and sterile manufacturing processes in the form of data analysis, troubleshooting, problem-solving, report writing

• Supporting change control implementation
• Learning new processes and procedures
• Performing shift work as needed
• Conducting technical investigations and analyses
• Recommending and implementing corrective and preventative actions, and helping lead reduction of atypical events
• Writing, reviewing, and improving procedures for operation of equipment and processes
• Contributing to process and equipment safety reviews
  
  

Comments/Special Instructions

Beta Lactam required Top skillsets- Technically sound, willing to troubleshoot on the floor/not a lab environment. Technical Operations Shift Engineer (TOSE)- Direct on floor support assisting with manufacture of sterile antibiotic product. You would form a shift team with operations, quality, and maintenance personnel. Your roles would include troubleshooting issues as they arise, observing the process and walking the floor to check for unusual events, escalation of events/issues to proper individuals to minimize impact and restore normalcy. Some technical writing and process deviation investigations would fall into times when you are not working on the production floor. There are 4 shifts and 6 TOSE. The TOSE are assigned one of the shifts. The remaining 2 would act as coverage for the on shift persons or would be a trainee who is not ready to work independently. There are currently 4 TOSE on shift with a trainee. You would undergo a ~10