Pharmaceutical Coating Technician - Temp

Are you the kind of person that is always thinking, sketching, seeking, and adjusting? Who needs to understand how things work and then figure out how they can work better? Are you a passionate, tenacious solver who loves to work with others who share your drive? Are you positive, constructive, and ingenious?

Are you always solving?

Then we’d like to meet you and bet you’d like to meet us.

Ashland has an exciting opportunity in the Pharmaceutical Aquarius™ Film Coating’s Team at our Wilmington, Delaware location. This temporary role reports to the North America Aquarius™ Film Coating R&D Team Leader.

The responsibilities of the position include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Support pharmaceutical film coating technical service and new product development team.
• Contribute to the development of fully formulated film coating systems for pharmaceutical and nutraceutical industries.
• Provide technical assistance and support to Production for product scale‑up, quality control activities, and application testing, as required.
• Operate coating equipment such as perforated pans and fluid beds; compression equipment like tablet presses; and analytical equipment such as Dissolution and tablet characterization equipment.
• Maintain technical information by preparing reports and maintaining records to document and retain information.
• Comply with company procedural guidelines, laboratory procedures, and safety programs.

In order to be qualified for this role, you must possess the following:

• Educated to bachelor’s degree in Chemistry, Pharmaceutical sciences, Chemical engineering, or similar related scientific fields.
• Minimum 1–2 years of hands‑on experience with solid‑dosage unit operations, such as tablet compression, film coating, and fluid‑bed processing.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite (PowerPoint, Word, and Excel specifically.
• Good interpersonal and presentation skills to share development work within the organization.
• Able to handle multiple projects simultaneously.
• Ability to work in physically challenging environments: lift 25 pounds and move up to 50 pounds when working with bulk ingredients, operate pilot scale equipment.
• Be authorized to work in the United States.

The following skill sets are preferred by the business unit:

• Previous experience in technical service, tech-ops support or technical transfer experience is a definite plus.
• Understanding of pharmaceutical and dietary supplement oral solid dosage forms like tablets and capsules.
• Experienced in pharmaceutical and dietary supplement film coating development and color matching.
• Ability to interpret color difference, color theory/colorimetry, and properties of pigments.