Manufacturing Scientist
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By delivering high-quality, innovative products to customers when and where they need them, Agilent's Manufacturing Team supports our company's mission to inspire scientists and researchers to make discoveries that advance the quality of life. Join our fast-growing, dynamic organization and be part of this rewarding work.
As a Manufacturing Scientist, you will check and schedule resources to ensure on-time delivery. Your scientific knowledge and background will be leveraged through your review of formulation documents and active ingredient dilution to ensure that products are manufactured to specification. Your proficiency in analytical testing and immunohistochemistry applications will be required to perform in-process quality control on a variety of products.
You will have an opportunity to become skilled in the use of a wide range of lab instruments, including but not limited to spectrophotometers, conductivity meters and auto-pipettors, all of which are essential to meeting our customers' requirements. Having the ability to learn quickly on the job, anticipate and resolve potential manufacturing and delivery issues and maintaining the highest level of quality are critical. Additionally, you will work on problems of diverse scope in which analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiable factors. You will also exercises judgment within generally defined practices and policies in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.
Primary Responsibility:
- Maintaining a work environment based on 5S and Lean Manufacturing principles.
- Work with team to coordinate the manufacture and testing of Reagents team product families which include PCR/QPCR based products as well as Microarray reagents to avoid backorder
- Identifying opportunities for process improvements.
Job Duties:
- Maintain accurate inventory.
- Submit electronic MMT for materials required.
- Perform manufacturing of bulks, qualifying bulks, and qualifying finished kits before they go out to customers.
- Assist in training all other employees on manufacturing processes.
- Utilize tools to achieve and maintain a zero backlog of materials.
- Perform verifications on all process types when required to do so.
- Perform all transactions in SAP required for process orders.
- Submit Deviation Notices (DN) when required.
- Record and maintain issues or errors that occur within the manufacturing processes.
- Assist in the trouble shooting of technical problems that may arise.
- Assist in the writing, maintenance and reviewing of FDA compliant work instructions (WI) and standard operating procedures (SOP) and other duties as assigned.
- Answer technical questions about products
- Assist on required validations of equipment, new raw materials, and process that may be required by group.
- Assist with Continuous Improvement projects.
Qualifications
- Bachelors or Masters Degree or University Degree in Biosciences (Molecular biology, Biochemistry)
- Wet-lab experience required; may have up to 2 years of relevant experience.
- Hands on proven understanding (Educational or Work experience) of standard laboratory techniques of molecular biology (including PCR/QPCR analysis and use of nanodrop)
Preferred (Nice to have) Qualifications:
- Microarray labeling and data analysis, tissue culture experience, and RNA techniques.
- Inventory control knowledge (SAP is a Plus)
Agilent Technologies, Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer.