What are the responsibilities and job description for the Pharmaceutical Development Technician III position at Bend Bioscience?
Why Join Bend Bioscience?
Mission and Culture:
At Bend Bioscience, we Advance Health Through Innovation by developing and manufacturing therapies that improve patients' quality of life. We believe every employee plays a vital role in our mission to advance human health through innovative client partnerships. Whether you’re involved in development, manufacturing, testing, or contributing your expertise in other areas, your work will have a meaningful, positive impact on countless lives.
Do you:
- Love finding new and better ways to do things?
- Want to help develop medicines that improve patients' lives?
- Have a passion for learning and growth?
- Nerd out on science and technology?
- Value collaboration and teamwork?
- Embrace audacity and entrepreneurial thinking?
- Prioritize safety and lead by example?
- Care deeply about doing the right thing?
At Bend Bioscience, we foster a diverse, inclusive, challenging, and supportive culture. We are committed to continuous improvement, both as individuals and as an organization, and we encourage personal and professional development at every level. Join us to make a real difference in patients’ lives through your work.
Your New Role At Bend Bioscience:
In this role, you will be responsible for leading the manufacturing activities and drafting master batch records, reports, protocols, data compilation, and standard operating procedures. You will support the training of new employees, lead troubleshooting of process equipment and instrumentation, and support installation and validation efforts for new equipment, as necessary.
Essential Functions (other duties may be assigned)
- Maintain equipment operation through responsive troubleshooting, repairs and following operations guidelines.
- Ensure that the product development manufacturing area is clean and in compliance with the cGMPs and inhouse SOPs.
- Manage inventory of dedicated parts and order as required.
- Independently coordinates and organizes all batch-related activities with appropriate departments.
- Troubleshoot a wide variety of equipment and instrumentation and recommend adjustments or repairs as necessary. Document issues in equipment logs and partner with repair technicians as necessary.
- Train junior technicians and junior scientists to perform sampling and physical testing of research in-process materials, e.g., sieve analysis, particle size analysis, loss-on-drying, microscopy, etc.
- Author or support drafting of master batch records, SOPs, data compilation, and reports.
- Attend cGMP training sessions and comply with site-wide and departmental procedures, including but not limited to change control, documentation, deviation reporting, cGMP compliance, safety and electronic data security.
Education & Experience
Generally, six (6) years of experience in related pharmaceutical manufacturing with a high school diploma or GED.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)
