Staff Scientist, Bioprocessing & Parenteral

Overview

Ashland Specialty Ingredients, GP has an exciting opportunity for a Bioprocessing Staff Scientist to join our Life Sciences business at our Wilmington Research Center in Delaware. This position will report to the Injectables Leader.

• Experience in lab and pilot scale bioprocessing and manufacturing proteins including mAbs, peptide, fermentation, purification and separation technologies.
• Industrial experience in technology/biopharmaceutical process development including upstream cell culture, protein purification and characterization with an understanding of therapeutic proteins and antibodies.
• Scaleup knowledge preferred.
• Experience in developing parenteral products, manufacturing, scale‑up, including a hands‑on experience in formulation development, aseptic technique, biologic analysis, dissolution, degradation and stability analysis.
• Plan, execute, and interpret laboratory and pilot plant experiments to support new product development.
• Prepare technical presentations, posters, and papers for internal and external customers at customer sites, scientific conferences, and trade shows.
• Actively contribute to the organizational goals by taking initiative, executing goals and focusing on performance and safety.
• Comply with company procedural guidelines, laboratory procedures, and safety programs.
• Train and work with junior scientists and technicians.
• Experience working as a part of a team.

• Experience in bioprocessing and manufacturing of proteins.
• Protein analysis experience (including HPLC, CE, spectroscopic methods, etc.).
• B.S./M.S. in Biotechnology, Biochemistry, Chemical Engineering, Pharmaceutical Science, or related discipline with 3-5 years of industry experience in bioprocessing/pharma fermentation and upstream processing biologics formulations processing.
• Good interpersonal and presentation skills to share development work within the organization and with customers.
• Able to handle multiple projects simultaneously.
• Ability to travel occasionally (about 20%) for customer meetings or plant trials.
• Be authorized to work in the United States.

• Demonstrated experience working within multicultural and multifunction environment.
• Experience developing process and formulations of mAb drug products.
• Analysis and troubleshooting of complex biologic products.
• Biomanufacturing and high‑throughput microbioreactors with process‑analytical techniques.
• Strong written, oral presentation, organizational and problem‑solving skills.
• Expertise in media/solution development and chemistry.
• Working knowledge of Design of Experiments (DOE), Microsoft Office Suite, and statistical.

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