MS&T Specialist II

Teva Job Opportunity

We're Teva, a leading innovative biopharmaceutical company, enabled by a world-class generics business. Whether it's innovating in the fields of neuroscience and immunology or delivering high-quality medicine worldwide, we're dedicated to addressing patients' needs now and in the future. Here, you will be part of a high-performing, inclusive culture that values fresh thinking and collaboration. You'll have the room to grow, the flexibility to balance life with work, and the opportunity to better health worldwide, together.

This position is responsible for performing activities related to critical aspects of products and processes, including process development, pre-validation and optimization of solid oral dosage forms after Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) filing throughout product launch and commercial lifecycle including validation. Executes studies with Research and Development (R&D), Laboratory Technical Services (LTS), manufacturing and planning. Maintains expertise related to formulation, raw material properties and manufacturing processes.

Identifies, analyzes and suggests corrective actions to optimize procedures, processes, materials, technology and regulatory compliance issues. Provides direction and training to other staff, technicians and manufacturing operators.

• Work with limited guidance from supervisor or seniors to drive projects to completion.
• Providing process-engineering expertise for technology transfer, from pre-validation through commercial lifecycle for modified release solid oral dosage form manufacturing including scale up, validation and lifecycle changes.
• Perform technical analysis to understand and reduce technology transfer risk, estimate cycle time, improve equipment fit, and implement required technologies.
• Design, develop and optimize process simulation techniques for process optimization and scale up.
• Partner with internal and external groups to ensure technical success of technology transfer and continued cost effective manufacturing; provide continued technical leadership to commercial operations for various unit operations including blending, sizing, compression, coating, fluid bed processing, and novel technologies.
• Contributing to business teams through innovation, strategic input, and industry knowledge to trouble shoot and achieve cost leadership.
• Perform engineering analysis of process execution, recommends opportunities for improvement with plant efficiency and risk mitigation as goals, and captures analysis in campaign summary documents.
• Provide process expertise, create and update M  and support batch record review and analysis.
• Act as a quality events investigator for assigned projects.
• Lead documentation for equipment, lead FMEAs, recommend equipment modifications as needed for validation optimization, analyze statistical data from qualification, product or functional specifications to determine conformance with standards and established quality requirements.
• Perform studies to support necessary equipment and system PQ's and PPQs to assure compliance in all manufacturing and support areas, analyze data using appropriate statistical tools.
• Maintain product during lifecycle (stage 3 – CPV) using appropriate statistical tools.
• Use appropriate project management tools; provide timely updates to management on the status of various projects.
• Implement and use of new pharmaceutical manufacturing technologies including melt extrusion, spray drying, extrusion – spheronization, spray congealing, laser drills, nano particulates, continuous manufacturing, NIR, PAT, etcetera.
• Execute material changes, process changes, cost reduction projects.
• Provide technical training and assistance to others.
• Responsible for completing all training requirements and maintaining 100% compliance with all assignments.
• Responsible for maintaining work areas and performing job functions in a safe and efficient manner in accordance with company policies and procedures, Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP's), and Standard Operating Procedures (SOP's) and Batch Record instructions.
• Responsible for performing additional related…