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Job Function:

Discovery & Pre-Clinical/Clinical Development

Job Sub Function:

Biotherapeutics R&D

Job Category:

Scientific/Technology

All Job Posting Locations:

Malvern, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Job Description:

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Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine R&D is recruiting for an Experienced Scientist, Upstream Development. This position is a hybrid role and will be located in Malvern, PA.

The Experienced Scientist, Upstream Development will contribute to upstream process development within the therapeutic protein process development group. This individual will be responsible for performing upstream process development studies.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Participate in design of experiments.

• Perform routine upstream laboratory operations to support execution of mammalian bioprocess experiments.

• Record and analyze data.

• Participate in scientific investigations and trouble-shoot process issues that arise during development, technology transfer, or scale-up.

• Participate in control strategy development.

• Participate in tech transfer, facility fit, and process scale up/ scale down.

• Author technical reports and contribute to regulatory filings

• Work effectively in a team environment as well as contributing individually to meet project objectives and timelines.

• Other duties will be assigned, as necessary.

Qualifications:

• A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering or Biological Sciences or Biochemistry or a related discipline field is required. Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering or Biological Sciences or Biochemistry or related discipline is preferred.

• A minimum of 3 years of relevant industry experience with a Bachelor’s degree or a Master’s degree (0-2 years of relevant industry experience) is required.

• Knowledge of and hands-on experience performing large molecule drug substance (API) upstream manufacturing process development is required.

• Experience in maintaining written records of work in the form of laboratory notebooks (paper or electronic) is required.

• Experience with team-based collaborations and direct management of daily laboratory responsibilities is required.

• Must have excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills.

• Must be highly organized with acute attention to details.

• The ability to manage/ pursue multiple projects with some supervision is required.

• The ability to report data, present findings to management is required

• This position will require occasional weekend work.

Johnson & Johnson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal, state or local law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.

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Required Skills:

Preferred Skills:

Analytical Reasoning, Biochemistry, Chemistry, Manufacturing, and Control (CMC), Coaching, Collaborating, Conducting Experiments, Data Quality, Drug Discovery Development, Molecular Diagnostics, Patent Applications, Pharmacogenetics, Report Writing, Research Documents, Scientific Research, Technologically Savvy, Written Expression

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