Associate Director, Bioreactor Process Design

Job Title:

Associate Director, Bioreactor Process Design

Location:

Redmond, WA

Reports To:

Director, Process Sciences

About Us:

At Just-Evotec, we believe that curiosity is the spark that drives innovation and success. As a forward-thinking team, we thrive on challenging the status quo, learning from each other, and pushing the boundaries of what's possible. We're on a mission to create a place where curiosity isn't just encouraged, it's celebrated.

Are you someone who asks questions, seeks answers, and isn't afraid to go deeper? #BeCureious with us and see where your curiosity can take you!

The Role:

We're seeking an enthusiastic and hardworking team member who is passionate about expanding worldwide access to biotherapeutics through the advancement of continuous bioprocessing technology and mammalian cell culture processes.

This person will join a fast-paced, collaborative, and multidisciplinary team to support upstream process development at the bench and pilot scale for the advancement of low-cost biotherapeutics manufacturing. This position will oversee upstream process optimization, technology transfer, and process characterization for hybrid and end-to-end continuous processes.

The successful candidate will be detail-oriented, self-motivated, and efficient in completing hands-on laboratory tasks, and experience with bioreactor equipment operation and maintenance, lab management, and organizing workspace and tasks are required. The ideal candidate will have strong scientific group management and leadership skills as well as a proven track record of a deep understanding of upstream process development for clinical and commercial therapeutic proteins.

Strong written and verbal communication skills are required as well as experience in client and multi-site communication. Finally, the ideal candidate is curious, creative, engaged, and the type who works well independently and in teams while constantly looking for ways to advance scientific processes and improve technology.

What You'll Do:

* Leading a mammalian cell culture department with a diverse group of scientists encompassing all aspects of upstream process development, characterization, and validation as well as technology transfer to cGMP manufacturing for continuous processes.

* Leading highly complex projects and investigations by integrating deep knowledge of upstream process development and broad knowledge of project work with knowledge of multiple functional areas.

* Collaborating across the organization to accelerate clinical development timelines while reducing development costs.

* Driving technology development for process intensification and continuous manufacturing to reduce manufacturing costs and footprint through improvements in cell culture productivity, control of product quality, and data management while working with vendors and external partners as well as influencing the biologics industry.

* Serving as a Project Team Lead within the process development organization to execute on client projects that involve multiple functional areas and the full range of regulatory stages.

* Serving as an internal technical resource for cGMP manufacturing and Process Design as well as a resource and subject matter expert for external clients and partners for perfusion bioreactor processes (small scale models, process transfer, and scale up) and authoring CMC regulatory sections.

* Clearly and effectively communicating scientific information, experimental plans, and data to internal project teams, cross-functional area teams, senior management, external clients, vendors, and technology development collaborators as well as the external scientific community such as regulatory agencies, review boards, publications, and conferences.

* Managing staff, training, capital resources, and planning within the department while supporting multiple client projects at various stages of process development and characterization.

* Other tasks as assigned.

Who You Are:

* BS/MS in Engineering, Biochemistry, Biology, or related field with 15+ years of experience or Ph.D. in Engineering, Biochemistry, Biology, or related field with 9+ years of experience.

* Expertise in…