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Specialist - Engineering Job

Employer
Merck
Location
West Point PA
Closing date
Jul 3, 2017

Job Details

Specialist - Engineering-CHE005389

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. The difference between potential and achievement lies in the spark that fuels innovation and inventiveness; this is the space where Merck has codified its 125-year legacy. Merck’s success is backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare.

Merck Manufacturing Division, MMD, is a team of dedicated, energetic individuals who are committed to being the most trusted supplier of pharmaceuticals and health products worldwide. Our facilities, along with our external contractors, suppliers, and partners, comprise an interdependent global manufacturing network that’s committed to delivering a compliant, reliable supply to customers and patients on time, every time, across the globe.

The function of this position is to provide engineering technical support to the manufacture of liquid vaccines. The role encompasses technical services support with primary focus in the areas of deviation management, customer complaints, validation and product franchise support. Specific assignments maybe focused in one area or span across multiple areas of focus.

The field engineer responsibilities include but are not limited to:

- Providing on-the-floor support of operational and technical issues; collaborating with the shop floor to provide immediate responses to deviations and potential deviations.
- Conducting real time investigations with the goal of fully understanding root cause and product impact within five days of event discovery.
- Performing customer complaint investigations, including determining the root cause, identifying corrective/preventative actions, identifying event scope, and conducting a product impact assessment. Where applicable, complete investigational test protocols to determine root cause, product impact, event scope, etc.
- Performing deviation investigations aimed to prevent deviation re-occurrence, including determining the root cause, identifying corrective/preventative actions, identifying event scope, and conducting a product impact assessment. Where applicable, complete investigational test protocols to determine root cause, product impact, event scope, etc
- Completing projects to improve the performance of our processes, including projects aimed at improving Right-First-Time performance or preventing/reducing deviations, and continuous improvement projects that seek to improve yield, reduce cost, or lower our processing cycle times.
- Preparing source documentation for regulatory filings, supporting requests for regulatory inspections related to process overviews, investigations, projects and validation.
- Authorizing updates to Master Batch Records (production process descriptions) and SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures).
- Supporting team safety, environmental and compliance objectives.
- Managing investigation, project and validation study timelines to ensure key compliance and customer due dates are met; escalating any potential misses and develop remediation plans when possible.
- Collaborating effectively with the area Coaches, Operators/Mechanics, support groups (Maintenance, Automation, Technology, Quality, and Planning).
- Executing projects and assigned studies in a right-first-time manner.
- Actively using and championing the use of Lean Six Sigma (LSS) and Merck Production System (MPS) tools, both in problem solving and day-to-day operational activities

Qualifications

Education:

- Bachelor’s Degree or higher in an Engineering or science-related field
Required:

- Minimum of 2 years relevant work experience
- Engineering or science educational background
- Demonstrated ability to work both independently and as a part of a team.
- Demonstrated leadership and teamwork skills, excellent analytical abilities, established written and verbal communication skills
Preferred:

- Support of vaccine operations or technical services support.
- Experience with troubleshooting biotech equipment and closed system processing.
- Experience with Trackwise, MIDAS, SAP
- Ability to read Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams
- Support of deviation investigations and/or project work
- LSS/MPS certification / experience

Your role at Merck
is integral to helping the world meet new breakthroughs that affect generations
to come, and we’re counting on your skills and inventiveness to help make
meaningful contributions to global medical advancement. At Merck, we’re
inventing for life.

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:Spclst, Engineering

Primary Location: NA-US-PA-West Point

Employee Status: Regular

Travel: No

Number of Openings: 1

Shift (if applicable): 1st

Hazardous Materials: No

Company Trade Name:Merck

Company

Our vision is to make a difference in the lives of people globally through our innovative medicines, vaccines, biologic therapies, consumer health and animal products. We aspire to be the best healthcare company in the world and are dedicated to providing leading innovations and solutions for tomorrow.

We have made it our mission to provide innovative, distinctive products and services that save and improve lives, satisfy customer needs and to be recognized as a great place to work

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