Associate Specialist Engineering Elkton, VA

Job Description

New hires in office-based roles in the US & Puerto Rico will be required, subject to applicable law, to demonstrate that they have been fully vaccinated for COVID-19 or qualify for a medical or religious exemption to this vaccination requirement that can be accommodated without an undue burden to the operation. However, subject to applicable law, employees working in roles that the Company determines require routine collaboration with external stakeholders, such as employees in customer facing commercial or research-based roles, will be required to be fully vaccinated as a condition of employment

Our Engineers support internal and external manufacturing operations and continuously improve and innovate. With our extensive range of facilities and environments, our Engineers have opportunities across many diverse areas including Biological, Chemical, Automation, Capital Projects, Maintenance, Safety, Process Development, Technical Services, Utilities, and Validation.

At our Company’s campus in Elkton, Virginia, we have an Associate Specialist, Engineering position available on our Technical Operations Team. The manufacturing facility is located in the Shenandoah Valley along the Shenandoah River and the Blue Ridge Mountains 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.

Position Responsibilities:

• Providing technical support for the vaccine, biologic, and sterile manufacturing processes in the form of data analysis, troubleshooting, problem-solving, report writing

• Supporting change control implementation

• Learning new processes and procedures

• Performing shift work as needed

• Conducting technical investigations and analyses

• Recommending and implementing corrective and preventative actions, and helping the lead to Freduction of atypical events

• Writing, reviewing, and improving procedures for the operation of equipment and processes

• Contributing to process and equipment safety reviews

The successful candidate must have:

• Excellent academic record

• Strong verbal and written communication skills, team skills, personal character, and ethics

• Strong problem-solving skills and a hands-on approach to problem-solving, with a bias towards going to see problems for oneself in the field.

• 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 are needed for continuous learning and its applications.

• Strong desire to succeed and to help others to do the same.

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 our Company's finest achievements to people around the world.

Required Education and Skills:

• Candidates must have a graduate degree with B.S. or M.S. degree in, biology, biochemistry, biochemical engineering, bioengineering, biological systems engineering, biomedical engineering, chemical engineering, chemistry, computer science, integrated science, or mechanical engineering prior to or by June/July 2023.

• Candidates must have an excellent academic record

• Candidates must have strong verbal and written communication skills, team skills, personal character, and ethics

• Candidates must have strong problem-solving skills and a hands-on approach to problem-solving, with a bias towards going to see problems for themselves in the field.

• Candidates must have 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.

• Candidates must be enthusiastic, confident, and initiative-taking ability needed for continuous learning and its applications.

• Candidates must have a strong desire to succeed and to help others to do the same.

Preferred Experience and Skills:

• Candidates should have experience working in a cGMP environment

• Candidates should have prior relevant work, co-op, or internship experience

Our Manufacturing & Supply Division is committed to being the most trusted supplier of biopharmaceuticals worldwide. Our facilities, along with our external contractors, suppliers, and partners, create an interdependent global manufacturing network that’s committed to delivering a high-quality, reliable supply to customers and patients on time, every time.

Who we are …

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

What we look for …

Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.

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Employees working in roles that the Company determines require routine collaboration with external stakeholders, such as customer-facing commercial, or research-based roles, will be expected to comply not only with Company policy but also with policies established by such external stakeholders (for example, a requirement to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to access a facility or meet with stakeholders). Please understand that, as permitted by applicable law, if you have not been vaccinated against COVID-19 and an essential function of your job is to call on external stakeholders who require vaccination to enter their premises or engage in face-to-face meetings, then your employment may pose an undue burden to business operations, in which case you may not be offered employment, or your employment could be terminated. Please also note that, where permitted by applicable law, the Company reserves the right to require COVID-19 vaccinations for positions, such as in Global Employee Health, where the Company determines in its discretion that the nature of the role presents an increased risk of disease transmission.

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US and Puerto Rico Residents Only:

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Requisition ID:R183445