What are the responsibilities and job description for the bioprocess technician position at Navitas Partners, LLC?
Title: Bioprocess Technician
Location: Elkton, VA 22827
Duration: 12 Months
Available shifts:
- First Shift: 8 am-5 pm
- Second Shift: 2:30 pm-10:30 (most of the time, sometimes 8-5)
- Rotating 12 Hour Shift (mostly 2 pm-2 am with some 6 am – 6 pm; 7 days a week)
Qualifications:
- B.S. or M.S. degree in, biology, biochemistry, biochemical engineering, biological systems engineering, biomedical engineering, chemical engineering, computer science, integrated science, or related disciplines and 0-3 years of relevant industrial experience.
- Beta Lactam is required so no known allergy
The successful candidate must have:
- Excellent academic record
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, team skills, personal character, and ethics
- Strong problem-solving skills and a hands-on approach to problem-solving, with a bias towards going to see problems for oneself in the field.
- Ability to examine an issue from diverse perspectives (safety, compliance, maintenance, automation, equipment, process, and people) in order to best understand and resolve it.
- Enthusiasm, confidence, and initiative-taking ability needed for continuous learning and its applications.
- Strong desire to succeed and to help others to do the same.
Heavily Preferred Experiences:
Experience working in a cGMP environment
Work, co-op, or internship experience in industry
Responsibilities:
- Providing technical support for vaccine, biologic, and sterile manufacturing processes in the form of data analysis, troubleshooting, problem-solving, report writing
- Supporting change control implementation
- Learning new processes and procedures
- Performing shift work as needed
- Conducting technical investigations and analyses
- Recommending and implementing corrective and preventative actions, and helping lead reduction of atypical events
- Writing, reviewing, and improving procedures for the operation of equipment and processes
- Contributing to process and equipment safety reviews
Instructions
- 50/50 floor/desk work. Mixture of doing investigations, floor support, and desk work. Previous Manufacturing or working with equipment.
- Technically sound, willing to troubleshoot the field, not a lab environment (working with union operators, managers, and maintenance folks)
