PAT Staff Scientist
Thermo Fisher Scientific

Job Description

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you'll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world's toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

Location: Greenville, NC

How you make an impact?

The PAT Scientist will be a member of the Continuous Manufacturing (CM) development team and lead activities related to Process Analytical Technology (PAT) to support projects from kickoff through successful commercial launch. This role focuses on the development, implementation and validation of process analytical methodology for critical quality attributes (CQA) monitoring and process understanding. This role will work closely with process development, operations, automation, and quality personnel to plan out projects and apply shared resources and equipment.

What will you do?

• Act as an SME for Spectroscopic PAT method development, validation, implementation, revalidation and model maintenance.

• Design and implement experiments to monitor product quality and achieve process understanding to achieve the analytical target profile (ATP),

• Perform in-depth data analysis of PAT and continuous manufacturing process data for process insight, investigations and trending.

• Apply expertise to advance understanding of the science related to PAT across the organization.

• Work directly with clients to deliver on project goals and ensure customer and regulatory requirements are met.

• Collaborate with the Thermo Fisher organization to contribute to instrumental innovation.

How will you get here?

Education

• Masters or PhD in Analytical Chemistry, Chemical Engineering or related scientific field.

Experience

• PhD with 2+ years of experience in PAT method development for pharmaceutical drug products.

• M.S. with 4+ years of experience in PAT method development for pharmaceutical drug products.

• Experience in applying at-line, on-line and in-line PAT methods for product and process insight, supporting development and manufacturing.

• Experience in Chemometrics and innovative multivariate modeling across spectroscopic techniques.

• Direct experience with or overall process understanding of continuous manufacturing is a plus.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Strong understanding of using spectroscopic techniques (e.g., FTIR, NIR and Raman) to develop method for process understanding and process control.

• Proficient in MATLAB programming and commercial Chemometrics software package such as Unscrambler and PLS toolbox.

• Strong statistical knowledge and capabilities.

• Excellent written and verbal communication, as well as interpersonal skills are essential.

• Comfortable working in multi-functional teams and providing professional contribution in process analytical technologies.

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