Friday, April 3, 2015

Biopharmaceutical Coop



BPT is responsible for biopharmaceutical Drug Substance (DS) upstream and purification scale-up, tech transfer, commercial lab support, and technical process oversight for internal GSK products into the three Rockville GMP facilities.  It is also responsible for 3rd party products process development.  The BPT team is comprised of 2 functions i) a technical oversight function for product technical lifecycle management and ii) a process laboratory function in its new state of the art lab opened in 2014, containing  bench scale as well as pilot scale (200 L) operations.  We are located in Rockville, MD. 

Why GSK? Because GSK’s Biopharm business vision is to leverage its experience and technical capabilities to launch, supply, and manage Biopharmaceutical products around the world. It will fulfill GSK’s Mission to Do More, Feel Better, and Live Longer by living its values: Integrity: Always doing the right thing; Commitment to the Patient: Making the Patient the #1 Priority; Customer Service: Commit to delivering on promises to internal & external customers; Compliance – Being accountable for quality and safety.

Basic and Preferred Qualifications:

  • Pursuing a BS/BA/ MS degree in either biological or chemical science, engineering, or equivalent technical discipline
  • Candidate must be eligible to work in the US at the time of, and for the duration of their employment.  Employees will be required to furnish evidence of US work authorization
  • Candidate must be eligible to work on a full-time basis during the internship duration (40 hours/week)
  • Candidate must demonstrate basic laboratory experience.
  • 3.0 or greater cumulative GPA

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Candidate with previous biotechnology experience (relating to areas such as process design/ understanding, operation/ design of engineering equipment (fermentation, cell culture &, protein purification)  or laboratory experience)
  • Basic understanding of engineering principles and biotechnology
  • Basic knowledge of biopharmaceutical (protein) manufacturing
  • Candidate with previous internship experience in pharmaceutical industry
We are seeking a 6-12 month co-op student who is interest in learning about biopharmaceutical process development, technology transfer and commercial technical support. The co-op student will work on the following projects:
  • Assist with process investigations including collection, checking and entry of data, design and creation of forms when necessary, running reports and creating graphic displays of the data.  Collect and coordinate collection of data from variety of data sources. 
  • Assist with authoring technical process documentation including campaign reporting, process change controls, and product impact assessments. 
  • As necessary will be required to carry out laboratory based biopharmaceutical process development/investigational activities.  Support design, analyze and interpret lab experiments, data, in-process trends, productivity and quality attributes to support process development.  Provide lab commercial support for manufacturing processes, including process optimization and troubleshooting process issues.
  • Develop and prepare technology transfer deliverables. Provide support to determine adequacy of plant to accept new technologies through risk assessment and gap analysis, and execute appropriate actions to implement start of new process operations through facility fit process optimization.
Description of the Department (Include 2 – 3 sentences about your dept and function):
BPT is responsible for biopharmaceutical Drug Substance (DS) scale-up, tech transfer, commercial lab support, and technical process oversight for internal GSK products into the three Rockville GMP facilities.  It is also responsible for 3rd party products process development.  The BPT team is comprised of 2 functions i) a technical oversight function for product technical lifecycle management and ii) a process laboratory function in its new state of the art lab opened in 2014, containing  bench scale as well as pilot scale (200 L) operations.  We are located in Rockville, MD. 



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