QC Scientist I

at  Thermo Fisher Scientific

JOB DESCRIPTION

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:

Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry, Microbiology, Biology, Biochemistry, or related field requred. Typically requires no experience performing tests or analyses for pharmaceutical raw materials, finished products, or microbiological samples. Experience with common office software and chromatographic data acquisition systems.

• Conducts chemical and physical testing of pharmaceutical raw materials, packaging components, finished products, microbiological, and stability samples by internally developed and compendial test methods.
• Implements validated test methods for pharmaceutical raw materials and finished products for strength, impurities, identity, and dissolution by HPLC, GC, dissolution, spectroscopy, and traditional quantitative analysis, using HPLC, GC, LC/MS, dissolution, spectroscopy, and/or traditional wet chemical testing.
• Recognizes and reports out-of-specification or unexpected results and non-routine analytical and product problems; recommends solutions.
• Maintains and troubleshoots analytical instrumentation as needed.
• Clearly and accurately communicates the results of work by documenting of the testing/analysis and obtained results.
• Records and reports results of analysis in accordance with prescribed lab procedures and systems.
• Provides communications with outside departments.
• Cleans and organizes work area, instrumentation, and testing materials.
• Cleans HPLC and dissolution systems after use.
• Performs all duties in strict compliance with Standard Operating Procedures, Good Manufacturing Practices, Good Laboratory Practices, and Safety guidelines.
• Maintains the necessary compliance status required by company and facility standards.