Associate Scientist

at  Thermo Fisher Scientific

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life - enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research, development and delivery of life-changing therapies. With clinical trials conducted in 100+ countries and ongoing development of novel frameworks for clinical research through our PPD clinical research portfolio, our work spans laboratory, digital and decentralized clinical trial services. Your determination to deliver quality and accuracy will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on – now and in the future.
Thermo Fisher’s clinical research business is a leading global contract research organization and world leader in serving science. We are passionate, deliberate, and driven by our mission – to enable our customers to make the world healthier, safer, and cleaner.
Within our Analytical Services team, we have a functional service provider solution, which is a unique partnership that allows our customers to leverage the experience of our staff, while allowing you, the employee, to gain direct experience working onsite at a pharmaceutical/ biopharmaceutical company, all while maintaining full-time benefits.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor’s degree in lab sciences such as Chemistry, Biochemistry, Material Science, Immunology, Biology, Molecular Biology or similar
• Assoc Scientist: Previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 0-2years’)
  In some cases, an equivalency, consisting of a combination of appropriate education, training and/or directly related experience, will be considered sufficient for an individual to meet the requirements of the role.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

• Knowledge of US and EU cGMP regulations/guidance and some experience with regulatory agency inspections
• General chemistry laboratory experience
• Knowledge of various types of laboratory equipment including, but not limited to DSC and balance
• The ability to work in a fast-paced environment, manage priorities and maintain timelines for multiple projects
• Strong attention to detail
• Effective communication skills, both verbal and written

• Perform in-process, release, and stability testing and/or review independently following established methodology, procedures and SOPs
• Maintain accurate laboratory records and adhere to cGMP/GDP expectations
• Participate in executing and/or review of method validations, method transfers and/or equipment qualification/requalification
• Assist in troubleshooting of analytical methods and/or equipment as required
• Participate in author and review of data, SOPs, COAs, analytical methods, protocols and reports as needed
• Participate in compliance related teams working towards the goal of continuous improvement
• Report OOT/OOS results and other deviations to area management and help remediate issues
• Perform other laboratory duties as assigned