Associate Specialist/specialist

3 weeks ago


Gaithersburg, United States AstraZeneca Full time

**Associate **Specialist/Specialist** (Clinical Biologics)**

At AstraZeneca, we put patients first and strive to meet their unmet needs worldwide. We're proud to have a unique workplace culture that inspires innovation and collaboration. Here, employees are empowered to express diverse perspectives - and are made to feel valued, energized and rewarded for their ideas and creativity. Working here also means being entrepreneurial, thinking big and working together to make the impossible a reality. If you are swift to action, confident to lead, willing to collaborate, and curious about what science can do, then you’re our kind of person.

**About AstraZeneca in Gaithersburg, MD**:
Our Gaithersburg, Maryland facility creates life-changing medicines for people around the world. This campus employs more than 3,500 experts in our field and is only a short drive from Washington, DC. This modern and vibrant scientific campus is the home of R&D and Oncology in the US. Here, we play host to some of the most groundbreaking technology and lab spaces, all designed to inspire collaboration and multi-functional science. We believe employees benefit from being challenged and inspired at work. We are dedicated to creating a culture of inclusion and collaboration.

The Gaithersburg site offers a variety of amenities to help boost productivity and help keep our employees happy and healthy. This includes a fitness center, employee healthcare clinic, electric vehicle charging stations, dry cleaning, full-service cafeteria, and copy center. This is where you’ll find newly designed, activity-based workspaces to suit many different working styles while increasing collaboration between teams.

**Summary of the Role**:
**Associate Specialist
- Main Duties & Responsibilities**:

- Operates bio-pharmaceutical manufacturing equipment such as: incubators, stainless steel and disposable bioreactors, depth filtration skids, chromatography skids, single-use mixers, centrifuges, washers, autoclaves, tanks, and in-process testing instruments.
- Performs steam sterilization, clean in place, manual cleaning, and sanitization of equipment.
- Records manufacturing activities clearly and accurately within approved current good manufacturing practices (cGMP) documents and regulatory requirements.
- Prepares for processing by ensuring equipment and materials necessary are adequate and available.
- Ensures a safe and environmentally sustainable work environment in accordance with AstraZeneca standards
- Ability to use MS Office tools and AstraZeneca enterprise systems

**Specialist
- Main Duties & Responsibilities**:

- Serves as the “Subject Matter Expert” in unit operations to improve quality, ensure safety, and drive process efficiency and accuracy
- Support process improvement initiatives and authors or revises standard operating procedures accordingly.
- Operates and serves as a trainer for operation of manufacturing equipment such as: incubators, stainless steel and disposable single-use bioreactors, depth filtration skids, chromatography skids, single-use mixers, centrifuges, cleaning/sanitization of equipment, washers, autoclaves, tanks and in-process testing instruments.
- Monitors process parameters, contributes to investigations, troubleshoots during processing, and recommends potential solutions.
- Reviews executed Production Records for accuracy and completion
- Ability to use MS Office tools and AstraZeneca enterprise systems

**Education & Experience Requirements**:

- Education:_ Bachelor’s degree in a science related field
- Experience:_

Associate Specialist: Bachelor’s degree and 0-4 years of relevant experience

Specialist: Bachelor's degree and 4+ years of relevant experience

**Required Skills**:

- Dynamic individual with the ability to communicate and engage others.
- Demonstrate a high level of drive and initiative.
- Logic and decision-making abilities, critical thinking and troubleshooting skills.
- Demonstrate leadership, organization and time management skills.
- Demonstrate flexibility and willingness to change ways of working/find opportunities to improve processes within cGMP clinical manufacturing environment.

**Why AstraZeneca?**

At AstraZeneca when we see an opportunity for change, we seize it and make it happen, because any opportunity no matter how small, can be the start of something big. Delivering life-changing medicines is about being entrepreneurial - finding those moments and recognizing their potential.

Join us on our journey of building a new kind of organization to reset expectations of what a bio-pharmaceutical company can be. This means we’re opening new ways to work, pioneering groundbreaking methods, and bringing unexpected teams together. Interested? Come and join our journey.

**So, what’s next?**

Are you ready to bring new ideas and fresh thinking to the table? Brilliant We have one seat available, and we hope it’s yours.

**Where can I find out more?**

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