Senior Specialist, Engineering Job

Senior Specialist, Engineering-CHE004943

Description

Merck is a global health care leader with a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines and consumer health products, as well as 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 people 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 a Senior Specialist, Engineering position available within the new Technical Services team. The manufacturing facility is 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.

The 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.

Assignments and duties will include:

•Qualify and validate a state-of-the-art finished goods vision inspection machine.
•achieve Safety, Quality, and Environmental compliance excellence in all assignments
•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

Qualifications

Education Minimum Requirement:

•B.S. degree in chemical engineering, biochemical engineering, biological systems engineering, mechanical engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, biology, biochemistry, chemistry or related science or engineering discipline and a minimum of six years of relevant industrial experience

Required Experience and Skills:

•Experience with computer automation or computerized system programming [e.g., PLC ladder logic; distributed control systems (DCS)]
•Demonstrated project management capabilities and change control experience.
•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.
•the 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.

Preferred Experience and Skills:

•>1 year of experience with automated vision inspection systems or machine vision systems
•Emerson DeltaV DCS experience
•Experience programming Allen-Bradley PLCs and HMIs
•Merck change control experience/expertise
•biologics or vaccine processing experience
•sterile processing experience
•CMC / regulatory submission experience

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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Job: Chemical Engineering

Job Title:Sr. Spclst, Engineering

Primary Location: NA-US-VA-Elkton

Employee Status: Regular

Number of Openings: 1

Shift (if applicable): 1st

Hazardous Materials: No

Company Trade Name:Merck