Scientist 2, QC Viral Vector
$113K-$223K (Glassdoor est.)
BioMarin is the world leader in delivering therapeutics that provide meaningful advances to patients who live with serious and life-threatening rare genetic diseases. We target diseases that lack effective therapies and affect relatively small numbers of patients, many of whom are children. These conditions are often inherited, difficult to diagnose, progressively debilitating and have few, if any, treatment options. BioMarin will continue to focus on advancing therapies that are the first or best of their kind.

BioMarins Technical Operations group is responsible for creating our drugs for use in clinical trials and for scaling production of those drugs for the commercial market. These engineers, technicians, scientists and support staff build and maintain BioMarins cutting-edge manufacturing processes and sites, provide quality assurance and quality control to ensure we meet regulatory standards, and procure the needed goods and services to support manufacturing and coordinating the worldwide movement of our drugs to patients. Come join our team and make a meaningful impact on patients lives.

Scientist 2,Quality Control (QC) Viral Vector

General Description:

The Scientist 2 is a member of the Quality Control team and is responsible for providing solid technical leadership and guidance relative to the performance, validation, optimization, development, troubleshooting, and transfer of molecular biological, biochemical and chemical evaluations for drug substance and drug product. It is expected that he/she will work independently under minimal direction while completing work assignments from semi-routine to complex in nature delivering work product on time. He/she is expected to provide strong cGMP knowledge and guidance to team members and will escalate issues as needed. The ability to recognize deviations from the accepted practice/SOPs through foundational technical expertise and compliance is a requirement. Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a quality control testing environment and work with external contract testing organizations (CTOs) are necessary for the position. Good written and verbal communication skills are essential.

Specific Responsibilities:
Lead efforts to perform laboratory testing of BioMarin drug products and APIs
Analyze, trend, and review quality control release and stability testing data of BioMarins pharmaceutical products at Contract Testing Laboratories (CTLs) and/or Contract Manufacturing Organizations (CMOs)
Contribute to data review for several methods.
Support or lead activities for Pre-Licensing Approval Inspection (PAI) readiness
Support or lead the preparation of phase-appropriate stability protocols and stability reports for API and drug product in accordance with regulatory requirements and as needed to support clinical trials and regulatory submissions .
Lead investigations conducted at CMO/CTL and review and approve out-of-specification (OOS), out-of-trend (OOT) and out-of-expectation (OOE) testing results, deviations.
Support or lead the transfer of analytical methods to CTLs for gene therapy products. These methods may include HPLC, ELISA, and other methods. Experience running and trouble-shooting cell-based methods is highly preferred.
Champion continuous improvement in quality systems (procedures and systems) to improve organizational effectiveness, quality assurance compliance, and regulatory and other requirements (cGMP, ICH).
Work collaboratively with manufacturing/supply chain, quality assurance, regulatory, and project management to ensure timely availability of lot release, stability data, and other required analytical data.
Qualifications / Requirements:
Relevant experience in a Quality Control function at an Associate level is required.
Experience in analytical development for biologics is required.
Experience with analytical systems (LIMS, laboratory control systems, stability/release systems) is required.
Functioned as audit support during previous inspections is preferred.
Thorough understanding of regulatory agency (FDA) requirement and international guidance (ICH) for drug substance and product under GMP is required as applied to biologics.
Analytical development experience developing, qualifying, validating, and transfer of chromatographic methods (HPLC, SEC, CZE), spectroscopic methods (FTIR. UV), and other physical and biochemical methods to analyze biologic or protein drug substances and drug products is strongly preferred.
Demonstrated experience with development, optimization, qualification, and validation of ELISA or other immunoassays for potency, identity analysis for drug substance or product release is preferred.
Demonstrated experience with development, qualification, and validation of tests for identity, purity, potency for API and drug product (raw materials, in-process, release) and/or excipients is required.
Ability to effectively prioritize and deliver on tight timelines in a fast-paced environment.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Experience in analytical data systems (Empower, LIMS)
Accuracy and attention to detail.
Excellent cross-functional team participation skills.
Solid problem-solving abilities.
Ability to be flexible with changing work needs
Interacts with other functional leaders, project management and QC/AD team personnel
Interacts with Contract Testing Laboratories, Contract Manufacturing Organizations, consultants and external partners
Education:
Scientist II Leveling criteria delineated below
Sr. Scientist is the below with an additional 2+ years in industry:
PhD in Molecular Biology, Genetics, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Analytical Chemistry, or a related field (with 3 - 6 years professional experience).
MS in Molecular Biology, Genetics, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Analytical Chemistry, or a related field (with 6 8 years professional experience).
BS in Molecular Biology, Genetics, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Analytical Chemistry, or a related field (with 8-12 years professional experience).
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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