Manufacturing Technician

The Tiny Cargo Company's mission is to unlock the healing power of milk-derived exosomes. We're building a new frontier in targeted drug delivery through our proprietary IP in exosome isolation, loading, and drug development, and we're commercializing pharmaceutical- and cosmeceutical-grade exosomes to help fund that work as we scale.

We're a small, fast-moving team based in Roanoke, and every hire we make right now shapes how this company operates for years to come. That means the people who join us early get real ownership, real trust, and a real hand in building something from the ground up.

The Manufacturing Technician executes cleanroom production of milk-derived extracellular vesicles alongside our manufacturing team, working across every unit operation from raw material receipt through purification, lyophilization, and packaging, plus the cleaning, monitoring, and documentation that keep our cleanroom certified and cGMP compliant.

This position exists to build a second qualified operator on every unit operation, freeing up senior staff from routine bench execution. Independent qualification across the full process is the expectation for your first year, and it's the foundation for the promotion path that follows. We're hiring for two of these seats on the team, so you'd be stepping in alongside a peer doing the same work, reporting to the Manufacturing Manager.

• Executing manufacturing steps per approved batch records across raw material receipt, clarification, tangential flow filtration, chromatographic purification, lyophilization, fill, and packaging
• Preparing buffers and process solutions to specification
• Setting up, operating, and monitoring process equipment and automated isolation systems, and escalating excursions and faults promptly
• Performing equipment changeover, cleaning, and sanitization, and supporting cleaning verification sampling
• Performing in-process sampling and routine in-process testing, including cleaning verification and environmental monitoring sampling

• Completing batch record entries contemporaneously and legibly
• Performing, monitoring, and maintaining environmental monitoring records supporting cleanroom certification
• Reporting events, excursions, and discrepancies immediately, and supporting deviation investigations with accurate, factual accounts
• Receiving, inspecting, staging, and accounting for incoming materials, and maintaining quarantine status until released to use
• Supporting deviation investigations with accurate, factual accounts through the corrective and preventive action (CAPA) process
• Maintaining equipment logbooks, cleaning records, incoming inspection records, and material transaction records
• Receiving, staging, and accounting for incoming materials, and maintaining quarantine status until released to use
• Maintaining consumable and reagent stock levels and flagging reorder points through a Kanban system
• Segregating and disposing of waste per procedure, and maintaining gowning and hygiene standards
• Owning the lab's chemical hygiene program for the production facility
• Maintaining cleanroom and warehouse spaces in a certified, compliant state

• Completing the training and qualification curriculum for each unit operation, including procurement and supply chain, and maintaining current records in the QMS
• Progressing toward independent qualification across all unit operations within your first year, verified by the Manufacturing Manager
• Supporting training of subsequent technicians once qualified

• Hold an Associate or Bachelor of…