S&I Scientist

BIOVAC is one of the leading sterile vaccine manufacturers rooted in Africa, with our core purpose being to "protect life". We are looking to hire a dynamic, passionate, confident, proactive and meticulous S& I Scientist to join a goal-oriented team.

Responsible for exposure to and execution of the following activity with the Antigen production team (APT) including but not limited to:

• Exposure to product development, optimisation and technology transfer activities relating to bacterial and mRNA projects.
• Understanding and contributing towards experimental plans and operational approaches
• Executing experiments and operations at both bench and pilot scale, ensuring process data is well defined, accurate and reproducible.
• Familiarize with downstream and upstream processing principles and techniques.
• Familiarization with quality structures within S& I to aid better understanding of GDocP quality regulations.
• Compliance to company safety and biosafety regulations and policies.
• Contribute to a high performance and innovative team culture.
• Supporting multi-disciplinary synergies across teams.

Required:

Bachelor’s degree or diploma in Biotechnology, Bioprocessing or relevant nature science field or equivalent.

Preferred:

Recognition is given to Prior Learning and practical experience.

• Experience in aseptic techniques.
• Ability to work under biosafety 2 conditions.

Applications

We believe in the magic of diversity within teams and to achieve this, we do apply Employment Equity principles during our selection process where this is necessary to achieve such diversity.