QC Microbiology Internship: Rapid Tech & Automation

Start date:

July or August 2026
Duration: 6 months

Location:

Corsier-sur-Vevey
Role level:
Internship

Within the QC Microbiology department, ensuring reliable, efficient, and compliant microbiological testing is essential to support product quality and patient safety. The industry is rapidly evolving toward automation, digitalization, and rapid microbiological methods (RMM). This internship will contribute to our strategic roadmap to modernize and optimize microbiological controls.

• Benchmarking, evaluation, and preliminary qualification of alternative rapid and automated microbiology technologies.
• Mapping available RMM and automated solutions.
• Comparing technologies based on performance, regulatory acceptance, cost, and operational fit.
• Conducting traditional testing as compendial reference method.
• Designing and executing laboratory evaluations by tests in accordance to study protocol (feasibility, robustness, usability).
• Supporting data analysis, risk assessment, and decision matrices (SWOTs, scoring grids, ROIs).
• Contributing to recommendations for implementation within QC Microbiology.
• Preparing technical reports and presenting findings to QC, manufacturing leadership and QA stakeholders.
• Contributing to the transformation roadmap.

• Currently undertaking studies in a relevant field.
• Methodical, curious and team spirit.
• Fluent in English, French is a plus.

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