Job Description

The Associate Specialist, Engineering, will be responsible for support of production of live virus vaccines within bulk vaccine production and/or final formulation and filling operations. This engineer will be a member of the TechnicalOperationsDeviation Management team in the Live Virus Vaccine Manufacturing End-to-End at the West Point site. The primary responsibility of the individual will beleadinginvestigationsassociated with manufacturing deviations and development of actions in response to these deviations. Support will be focused on the Deviation Management process including operations support, equipment troubleshooting, implementation of process/ equipment actions, and other related duties. This position will require development of technical expertise of corresponding IPT operations. Limited off-shift or weekend coverage may be required based on business unit needs and specific assignments.

Responsibilities include:

• Leadsand/or works as part of a team onmanufacturing investigations, identifying root cause, assessing impact, and recommending corrective actions.

• Hasability to examine an issue from different perspectives (safety, compliance, automation, equipment, process, and people)in order tobest understand and resolve the root cause.

• Assures consistent application of standardized work, engineering, project managementand process tools.

• Provides technical support to manufacturing shop floor for problems and issues.

• Conducts and designs experimental protocols as needed using the Technical Operations lab facilities and/or production equipment at full scale.

• Authors and updates technical and manufacturing documents necessary for investigations, process design/definition, engineering studies, process demonstrations, change control and validation.

Education Minimum Requirements:

• B.S. degree in Engineering or Sciences.

Required Experience and Skills:

• Demonstrated ability to drive results

• Strong communication, collaboration skills and ability to drive accountability

• Strong problem-solving skillset

Preferred Experience and Skills:

• Vaccine manufacturing

• Sterile processing

• Experience authoring investigations

Required Skills:

Preferred Skills:

Current Employees apply

Current Contingent Workers apply

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The salary range for this role is

This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employees position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, government requirements, and business or organizational needs.

The successful candidate will be eligible for annual bonus and long-term incentive, if applicable.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits. Available benefits include medical, dental, vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, including 401(k), paid holidays, vacation, and compassionate and sick days. More information about benefits is available at .

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San Francisco Residents Only:We will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records for employment in compliance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance

Los Angeles Residents Only:We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance

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