Development Scientist I

Development Scientist I

Position Summary

• Work Schedule: Monday to Friday 8am-5pm

• 100% based on-site in Greenville, NC

Catalent’s Greenville, N.C. facility specializes in end-to-end turn-key solutions for oral solid dosage forms, including integrated formulation development, analytical services, commercial manufacturing, and packaging. This state-of-the-art facility has had over $100M of investments in recent years and features fit-for-scale capacity with potent handling capabilities, ideal for orphan or targeted drug development.

The Development Scientist I serves as a primary point of contact with the client regarding pharmaceutical development and clinical manufacturing project related activities. This role is responsible for supporting these activities in the areas of supervision, process development, clinical trial batch manufacturing, packing and documentation

The Role

• Independently design and execute experiments

• Interpret data and make sound recommendations based on data

• Solve formulation and process problems

• Author SOP’s, IQ/OQ/PQ documents, development and technical reports, and CMC sections for regulatory submissions

• Maintain competency and training for relevant processes and equipment

• Ensure that all work is accurate, precise, properly documented, within GMP requirements

• Organize multiple project responsibilities to ensure tasks are appropriately prioritized and executed on time

• Design, coordinate, and execute development and CTM activities, including formulation, data interpretation, equipment selection, generation of batch records and other appropriate documentation, and problem-solving exercises

• Ongoing communication with clients, internal support groups, resources, vendors and staff

• Other duties assigned

The Candidate

• Bachelor’s degree in pharmaceutical science, chemistry, engineering, or related science with 3+ years of industrial pharmaceutical experience OR

• Master’s degree in pharmaceutical science or chemistry or related science with 2+ years of industrial pharmaceutical experience OR

• Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Science or related field or Pharm.D. with 1+ years of industrial pharmaceutical experience required

• Some exposure to hazardous chemicals and other active chemical ingredients

• Position requires the capacity to handle and manipulate objects using hands and arms.

• Requires ability to occasionally lift items in excess of 50 pounds

Why You Should Work At Catalent

• Spearhead exciting and innovative projects

• Fast-paced, dynamic environment

• High visibility to members at all levels of the organization

• 152 hours of PTO + 8 paid holidays

Catalent offers rewarding opportunities to further your career!  Join the global drug development and delivery leader and help us bring over 7,000 life-saving and life-enhancing products to patients around the world. Catalent is an exciting and growing international company where employees work directly with pharma, biopharma and consumer health companies of all sizes to advance new medicines from early development to clinical trials and to the market. Catalent produces more than 70 billion doses per year, and each one will be used by someone who is counting on us. Join us in making a difference. 

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