Process Development Associate

Actalent Hiring for a Process Development Associate

The Process Development Associate supports a rapid analytics group within Process Development by performing product quality analyses in a fast-paced, highly matrixed laboratory environment. This role generates high-quality analytical data to meet project timelines and enable critical process decisions, partnering closely with scientists and stakeholders across multiple sites and functional areas. The position is ideal for a quick learner who is detail-oriented, team-focused, and motivated to work with advanced analytical technologies.

Responsibilities include executing analytical tests within expected turnaround times, performing assays such as Size Exclusion Chromatography (SEC), Titer, Cation Exchange Chromatography (CEX), reduced Capillary Electrophoresis-SDS (rCE-SDS), non-reduced Capillary Electrophoresis-SDS (nrCE-SDS), Capillary Isoelectric Focusing (cIEF), and ATOLL-based methods. The role also involves adhering to turnaround times and required metrics for high-throughput sample analysis to support project timelines, documenting and reviewing experimental results in electronic laboratory notebooks, authoring, reviewing, and verifying technical documents, analytical methods, and reports, managing logistics tasks including sample receiving, sample tracking, and coordination of equipment maintenance, monitoring the safety and compliance status of the laboratory, working with the development team to implement analytical methods, analyzing data, and interpreting results to support process development decisions, providing technical input and generating written reports summarizing analytical findings and study outcomes, communicating project updates effectively to stakeholders, maintaining laboratory instruments, troubleshooting and solving technical problems related to instruments, assays, and analytical workflows, organizing and prioritizing daily tasks to manage multiple experiments and deliverables concurrently, and contributing to a collaborative, team-oriented environment by sharing knowledge, supporting colleagues, and adapting to evolving project needs.

Essential skills include a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry, Biochemistry, Biology, Chemical Engineering, or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and experience, 0–2 years of relevant laboratory experience gained in industry, academic settings, or internships, foundational understanding and some hands-on experience with chromatographic and/or electrophoretic techniques, ability to follow written procedures precisely and maintain accurate, complete laboratory records, strong attention to detail in experimental execution, documentation, and data review, ability to work safely in a laboratory environment, following established safety practices and guidelines, strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines, effective communication skills, including the ability to convey technical information clearly in both oral and written formats, analytical laboratory experience, particularly in chemistry or biochemistry-focused environments, and ability to work collaboratively in a team-focused, cross-functional setting.

Additional skills and qualifications include good understanding of liquid chromatography and capillary electrophoresis, with strong hands-on technical skills to address challenging technical issues, strong ability to analyze, interpret, and draw conclusions from analytical results, excellent organizational skills, including time management and task prioritization in a dynamic environment, strong written and oral communication skills with careful attention to detail, strong interpersonal skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with colleagues across multiple sites and functional areas, ability to learn new technologies quickly and adapt to evolving laboratory methods and tools, ability to multitask and remain flexible in a fast-paced, matrixed environment, positive attitude, strong self-motivation, and a proactive approach to problem-solving, and comfort working with electronic documentation systems,…