Why Patients Need You

Everything we do, every day, is in line with an unwavering commitment to the quality and the delivery of safe and effective products to patients.  Our science and risk-based compliant quality culture is flexible, innovative, and customer oriented. Whether you are involved in development, maintenance, compliance or analysis through research programs, your contribution will directly impact patients.

What You Will Achieve

You will be a member of Pfizer’s dedicated and highly effective quality assurance and control team. You will be responsible for analyzing chemical, biological or microbiological products to support our quality programs. Your contribution to environmental testing, utility monitoring, analytical testing, microbial identification and sterility testing will help Pfizer provide safe drugs to patients. Your understanding of Quality Control instruments will help us meet their accuracy specifications against established standards. You will also be relied on for setting requirements for the transfer of methodology from R&D.

As an Associate scientist, your strong foundation in general scientific practice and in the principles and concepts of the discipline will help us achieve our goals. You will be relied on as a technical contributor to assess the assigned tasks and make decisions that involve direct application of your knowledge.

It is your dedication and focus that will make Pfizer ready to achieve new milestones and help patients across the globe.

How You Will Achieve It

• Perform tasks associated with maintaining Good Manufacturing Practices {also cGMP} compliant Quality Control and Stability laboratories.
• Apply existing techniques and procedures, with recommendations, and implement modifications for improved efficiency.
• Support product transfers/new product development, regulatory queries, cost improvement projects or Drug Product plant support for Cleaning Validation.
• Operate within established HR policies and basic colleague relations guidelines.
• Write Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), technical reports, project plans etc. independently.
• Contribute to the completion of team objectives and assigned project milestones.
• Exercise and build basic team effectiveness skills, such as commitment, feedback and consensus management, within the work group.

Qualifications

Must-Have

• Bachelor's Degree
• Demonstrated experience in manufacturing, quality or engineering experience in the biotech or pharmaceutical industry
• Fundamental understanding of laboratory instrumentation function and analytical method troubleshooting
• Aptitude for good decision making based on procedures, guidance, and experience
• Excellent oral, written and interpersonal communication skills
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office applications, specifically Word and Excel

Nice-to-Have

• Experience with and in depth understanding of Microbiology testing
• Experience defending laboratory practices in regulatory audits
• In-depth knowledge of viable and non-viable environmental monitoring during pharmaceutical manufacturing and an understanding of aseptic techniques

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Pfizer is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction in which it operates.