What are the responsibilities and job description for the Assistant Scientist II position at Pfizer?
Why Patients Need You
Everything we do, every day, is in line with an unwavering commitment to the quality and the delivery of safe and effective products to patients. Our science and risk-based compliant quality culture is flexible, innovative, and customer oriented. Whether you are involved in development, maintenance, compliance or analysis through research programs, your contribution will directly impact patients.
What You Will Achieve
Your prior work experience and ability to apply your breadth of knowledge will help you adapt the standard methods and procedures. You will help us identify required delivery and process improvements that drive increased efficiency, throughput and quality. You will arrive at decisions on which methods and procedures are the best fit for different work situations.
It is your hard work and commitment that will make Pfizer ready to achieve new milestones and help patients across the globe.
How You Will Achieve It
- Manage own time, professional development and accountable for own results.
- Prioritize own workflow and assist in prioritizing the workflow of less-experienced colleagues.
- Responsible for maintaining laboratory compliance.
- Interpret and evaluate data in terms of accuracy, precision, trends, and potential Good Manufacturing Practices {also cGMP} impact and recommends appropriate corrective action where necessary.
- Perform, document, record check, and troubleshoot qualitative or quantitative assays on samples using techniques that vary from use of standard laboratory equipment to highly modern and automated instrumentation.
- Perform testing for semi-finished goods and finished goods testing, validation sample, and other testing in accordance with approved procedures and test methods, and record the test results in timely manner.
- Investigate, analyze, problem solve, and communicate technical information to internal and external customers.
- Ensure all reagents and reference standards are valid and stored according to requirement.
- Comprehend and perform both routine and non-routine analyses from compendia and internal sources.
- Work effectively in a fast-paced, customer-oriented, team laboratory environment to analyze final drug products in the Drug Product Laboratory.
- Train and support less experienced analysts, working as a Certified Fellow Employee and mentor to aid in their development as analysts.
Role summary
Working under supervision, learns and applies laboratory techniques such as HPLC, dissolution, moisture by KF, pH, and others to perform product stability testing. Candidate will be responsible for understanding and performing routine analytical testing for stability samples, evaluating
and documenting results in a timely manner and following ALCOA (Attributable, Legibility, Contemporaneous, Original, Accurate) principles.
Understands and follows all SOPs and written test procedures. Under supervision, performs testing within established standard test times and maintains quality and productivity at acceptable levels as communicated by the supervisor. Candidate will begin to learn to execute troubleshooting of instrumentation under supervision and will be expected to maintain laboratory equipment in good working condition.
Candidate will begin to learn about the investigation process,and will participate in laboratory investigation steps with appropriate approvals and with guidance from supervisor.
Keeps supervisor fully informed of all results and project status on a daily basis and reports critical information in a timely manner. Begins to learn how to multi-task. Will be expected to perform other tasks as assigned by the supervisor ensure data integrity (e.g. log in samples, reconcile samples for destruction, participate in special projects.) Overtime may be required based on business need.
Qualifications
Must have
- High school diploma (or GED) plus six years relevant experience, or an associate's degree with four years of experience or bachelor's degree with 0–1 year relevant experience.
- Candidate must good oral and written communication skills.
Nice to have
- Previous pharmaceutical, quality control, and stability experience.
- Experience using laboratory techniques such as HPLC, dissolution, moisture by KF, pH, and others to perform product stability testing.
- Experience performing routine analytical testing for stability samples, evaluating and documenting results in a timely manner and following ALCOA (Attributable, Legibility, Contemporaneous, Original, Accurate) principles.
- Understanding of all SOPs and written test procedures.
PHYSICAL/MENTAL REQUIREMENTS
Routine laboratory work while standing, walking, sitting, and lifting less than 10lbs.
NON-STANDARD WORK SCHEDULE, TRAVEL OR ENVIRONMENT REQUIREMENTS
Overtime may be required if there is a business need.
Work Location Assignment: On Premise
Last Date to Apply to Job: January 25, 2023
Relocation assistance may be available based on business needs and/or eligibility.
Pfizer requires all U.S. new hires to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 prior to the first date of employment. As required by applicable law, Pfizer will consider requests for Reasonable Accommodations.
Sunshine Act
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EEO & Employment Eligibility
Pfizer is committed to equal opportunity in the terms and conditions of employment for all employees and job applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, gender identity or gender expression, national origin, disability or veteran status. Pfizer also complies with all applicable national, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act and IRCA. Pfizer is an E-Verify employer.
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