Assistant Engineer

Position Title: Assistant Engineer

Work Location: Elkton, VA 22827

Assignment Duration: 12 months

Work Schedule: Rotating 12 Hour Shift (mostly 2pm-2am with some 6am-6pm; 7 days a week)

Work Arrangement: Mixture of floor and desk work (50/50)

Position Summary:

• 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.
  
  Background & Context:
• 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.
  
  Key Responsibilities:
• Providing technical support for 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 lead reduction of atypical events.
• Writing, reviewing, and improving procedures for operation of equipment and processes.
• Contributing to process and equipment safety reviews.
  
  Qualification & Experience:
• B.S. or M.S. degree in biology, biochemistry, biochemical engineering, biological systems engineering, biomedical engineering, chemical engineering, computer science, integrated science, or related disciplines and 0-3 years of relevant industrial experience.
• Beta Lactam required so no known allergy.
• 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 needed for continuous learning and its applications.
• Strong desire to succeed and to help others to do the same.
• Heavily Preferred: Experience working in a cGMP environment.
• Heavily Preferred: Work, co-op, or internship experience in industry.

Notes:

• Rotating 12 Hour Shift (mostly 2pm-2am with some 6am-6pm; 7 days a week).
• 50/50 floor/desk work. Mixture of doing investigations, floor support, desk work. Previous Manufacturing or working with equipment. Perfect candidate- Mechanically inclined but can also document it effectively (SOPs, etc.).
• Technically sound, willing to troubleshoot the field not a lab environment (working with union operators, managers, maintenance folks).