Senior Manufacturing Engineering Specialist

Job Description

Our Engineers support internal and external manufacturing operations remain operational, 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.

We are seeking a Growth and Improvement minded Senior Manufacturing Engineering Specialist that can help drive our Strategic Operating Priorities.

• Invent | Pursue the Most Promising Internal and External Science to Address Significant Unmet Medical Needs

• Execute | Prioritize Resources Behind Our Key Growth Drivers (Oncology, Vaccines, Select Specialty Areas, Animal Health) While Optimizing Our Base Business)

• Adapt | Develop Our People, Culture and Business Model to Evolve with a Dynamic Landscape

• Diverse Talent | We are committed to providing an inclusive and welcoming environment with supporting leadership behaviors because having a high-performing, engaged workforce is critical to our ability to deliver innovative solutions to patients and customers around the world

• Values and Standards | Our Steadfast Commitment to Our Values and Standards will Continue to Guide Us as We Take on New Challenges and Will Always be Fundamental to Our Success – They are a Competitive Advantage for Us

Summary, Focus and Purpose

The West Point Technical Services organization is seeking a highly motivated individual for a Senior Specialist – Engineering position. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to contribute to the performance and results of the manufacturing area by providing technical guidance and anticipating and interpreting customer needs to identify and implement solutions.

Key Functions

• Work Independently and as a Team member with Integrity | Precision | Accomplishment | Motivational Ambition | Respect | Inclusion

• Provide technical support for the vaccine bulk manufacturing area

• Supports team safety, environmental, and compliance initiatives

• Apply technical skills to align activities with department, site and franchise objectives

• Lead and/or works as a team member on continuous improvement projects, complex manufacturing investigations, process improvement and/or validation projects

• Completes projects to improve the performance of our processes, including investigation Corrective/Preventative Actions (CAPAs), projects aimed at improving Right-First-Time performance or preventing/reducing deviations, and value capture projects that seek to improve yield/efficiency, reduce cost, or lower our processing cycle times

• Manage project timelines to ensure key compliance and customer due dates are met; escalating when necessary and developing remediation plans when possible

• Effectively collaborates with cross functional peers on site and above site

• Ability to examine an issue from diverse perspectives (safety, compliance, automation, equipment, process, and people) in order to best understand and resolve manufacturing challenges

• Monitor the health of the process through continuous monitoring and the annual process review or continuing validation activities

• Assure consistent application of standardized work, engineering and process tools

• Provides on-the-floor support of complex operational and technical (process/equipment) issues

• Author and update technical and manufacturing documents necessary for investigations, process design/definition, engineering studies, process demonstrations, change control and validation

• Prepare documentation to support regulatory submission and participates in regulatory inspection activities for the facility

Education

• Required | B.S. degree in Engineering or Sciences

• Preferred | M.S. or PhD in Science or Engineering

Experience | Skills | Knowledge

Required

• Five years post-Bachelor degree experience in GMP manufacturing and/or technical support of GMP manufacturing operations | Master degree with three years experience in GMP manufacturing and/or technical support of GMP manufacturing operations | Ph.D degree with one years experience in GMP manufacturing and/or technical support of GMP manufacturing operations

• Demonstrated strategic ability to develop innovative solutions for undefined problems and business processes to meet the needs of key stakeholders and project sponsors.

• Highly developed and principled communication, leadership and teamwork skills

• Ability to manage projects to ensure timely completion of project milestones

Preferred

• Experience in Cell Culture, Virology, or Industrial Microbiology

• Expertise in Cell Culture, Virology, or Industrial Microbiology

• Experience in biologics, vaccine or bulk sterile manufacturing facilities

• Good understanding of sterile and aseptic processing

• Regulatory inspection presentation experience with external regulatory authority representatives

• Proficient in the following competencies: flexibility, motivation, teamwork/collaboration, problem-solving, and project management

• Demonstrated competency in Change Control procedures

• Proficient with data analysis (JMP, Spotfire, DataI KU)

Our Manufacturing & Supply Division is dedicated to being the most trusted supplier of biopharmaceuticals worldwide. Our facilities, along with our external contractors, suppliers, and partners, create a reliable global manufacturing network that’s devoted 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.

NOTICE FOR INTERNAL APPLICANTS

In accordance with Managers' Policy - Job Posting and Employee Placement, all employees subject to this policy are required to have a minimum of twelve (12) months of service in current position prior to applying for open positions. If you have been offered a separation benefits package, but have not yet reached your separation date and are offered a position within the salary and geographical parameters as set forth in the Summary Plan Description (SPD) of your separation package, then you are no longer eligible for your separation benefits package. To discuss in more detail, please contact your HRBP or Talent Acquisition Advisor.

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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Requisition ID:R230568