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Your Role: The Senior Technical Services & Manufacturing Science (TSMS)

Scientist is responsible for providing technical and scientific support for commercial operations at the Charlottetown, PEI manufacturing facility. The position is a subject matter expert with respect to vaccine production and manufacturing processes and is engaged in tech transfer, scale-up, process optimization, validation, monitoring, troubleshooting and continuous improvement activities. The Senior TSMS Scientist plays a key role in overseeing, planning and delivery of technical projects.

Your Responsibilities:

• Serve as a process capability specialist utilizing statistical modeling to advance site capabilities.
• Participate in site investigations; enhancing the site technical knowledge; understanding and problem solving.
• Participate in the manufacturability review process and Process Quality Review.
• Partner with R& D to enable commercialization of new products and R& D to execute scale up, registration and validation activities.
• Ensure that the right control strategies are in place.
• Conceive of and lead continuous improvement initiatives through Life Cycle Management.

Minimum Qualifications (education, experience and/or training, required certifications):

• Master’s degree in bioengineering, Bio/Pharmaceutical Technology, Chemistry, Microbiology, or equivalent scientific degree and experience.
• Experience with a variety of technologies and including vaccine technologies, recombinant protein platform, protein-based, purification, fermentation technology, lyophilization and sterile filling technology.
• Experience in problem solving and tools available.
• Experience in statistical analysis.
• Ability to influence people.
• Ability to build collaborative relationship with areas inside and outside Elanco, to build the network.
• Familiarity with global Regulatory Standards (EU GMP, USDA, CFIA).
• Experience in lean approach/principles.

Additional Preferences:

• Master's degree with 3-5years' experience
• Experience in project management, PMP certification.
• Experience with SAP, JMP, Veeva Vault.
• Experience Leading technical transfer operations specifically:
  • Serving as a subject matter expert (SME) for site specific projects.
  • Ensuring that the transfers are in accordance with the cGMP and respond to the requirements for the dossier submission.
  • Driving the execution of tech transfer to ensure that they are accomplished on time, with robust manufacturing control strategies implemented PEI’s site.

The salary range for this position is $80, 000 to $120, 000 which will be determined based on relevant experience and education.

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