Process Engineer – Elkton, VA Job

Process Engineer – Elkton, VA-CHE004934

Description

Merck & Co., Inc. Kenilworth, N.J., U.S.A. known as Merck in the United States and Canada, is a global health care leader with a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines and animal health products. Today, we are building a new kind of healthcare company – one that is ready to help create a healthier future for all of us.

Our ability to excel depends on the integrity, knowledge, imagination, skill, diversity and teamwork of an individual like you. To this end, we strive to create an environment of mutual respect, encouragement and teamwork. As part of our global team, you’ll have the opportunity to collaborate with talented and dedicated colleagues while developing and expanding your career.


At Merck’s campus in Elkton, Virginia, we currently have openings for Senior Process Engineer to provide process technical support in our vaccines and small molecule upstream processing. The position is with our Technical Operations team at our manufacturing facility located in the Shenandoah Valley along the Shenandoah River and the Blue Ridge Mountains – just a short distance from the University of Virginia and James Madison University.

A successful candidate will have the opportunity to apply their enthusiasm and technical skills as a member of a multidisciplinary team supporting the operation of pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical, vaccine product manufacturing facilities.

Responsibilities include:

• Achieving Safety, Quality, and Environmental compliance excellence in all assignments
• Providing on-the-floor manufacturing support
• Learning new processes and procedures
• Supporting and leading change control implementation
• Leading and conducting technical investigations and analyses, recommending corrective actions, and seeing them through to successful, sustainable implementation
• Writing, reviewing, improving documentation for technical and regulatory compliance excellence
• Contributing to process and equipment safety reviews
• Teaching, coaching, mentoring, and learning from team members

If you are the kind of individual who thrives on challenge and possess the technical, leadership and business, and communication skills that are of value to our business, we invite you to apply.
Consistently cited as a great place to work, we discover, develop, manufacture and market a wide range of vaccines and medicines to address unmet medical needs. Each of our employees is joined by an extraordinary sense of purpose - bringing Merck's finest achievements to people around the world.

Qualifications

Education Minimum Requirement:

•B.S. degree in chemical engineering, biochemical engineering, biological systems engineering, biology, biochemistry, chemistry or related life science or engineering discipline and a minimum of 2-4 years of relevant industrial experience

OR
•M.S. degree in chemical engineering, biochemical engineering, biological systems engineering, biology, biochemistry, chemistry or related life science or engineering discipline and a minimum of 2 years of relevant industrial experience

Required Experience and Skills:

• Strong problem solving skills and a hands-on approach to problem solving, with a bias toward going to see problems for oneself in the field.
• Excellent technical, organizational, interpersonal, collaborative, and verbal/written communication skills are required.
• 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.
• A strong desire to succeed and to help others to do the same.

Preferred Experience and Skills:

Working in a cGMP environment
•Bulk Fermentation, Biologics or vaccine processing
•Sterile processing
•Project Management
•Leadership roles
•Participation in regulatory agency inspections
•CMC Authoring

Our employees are the key to our company’s success. We demonstrate our commitment to our employees by offering a competitive and valuable rewards program. Our Company’s benefits are designed to support the wide range of goals, needs and lifestyles of our employees, and many of the people that matter the most in their lives. If you need an accommodation for the application process please email us at staffingaadar@merck.com.

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Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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Merck is an equal opportunity employer, Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran – proudly embracing diversity in all of its manifestations.


Job: Chemical Engineering

Job Title:Spclst, Engineering

Primary Location: NA-US-VA-Elkton

Employee Status: Regular

Number of Openings: 1

Hazardous Materials: No

Company Trade Name:Merck