Senior Associate Scientist

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Our Particulates and Container Closure Integrity (PCCI) team is looking for a  Senior Associate Scientist (m/f/d)

The Particulates and Container Closure Integrity (PCCI) team is a development lab within the global Janssen Research & Development organization embedded in the GMP environment of the Janssen Supply Chain (JSC). As part of analytical development, we provide end-to-end support working closely with our R&D partners and JSC in an international, dynamic, and diverse team responsible for biotherapeutic products across numerous therapeutic areas such as oncology, immunology, and neuroscience.

To strengthen our team, we are seeking a dedicated scientist to bridge laboratory analytics with project work. In this position, you are responsible for further developing the center of excellence (CoE) for particle counting for biotherapeutic finished products. Your scientific dedication and agility to work in a dynamic and GMP-regulated development environment are critical to ensure robust and compliant applications and approaches. After a thorough on-the-job training, you will have responsibility for particle counting methods development, validation and transfer for development projects and marketed products.

Your Responsibilities:

• Assume a leading role to advance particle testing and data analysis supporting the PCCI team and our partner organizations.
• Provide technical and scientific expertise to support PCCI base business and investigations
• Design experimental plans based on defined results
• Represent the PCCI team in project meetings as particle and CCIT subject matter expert
• Support development, validation and transfer of particle counting and CCIT methods for aseptic biological products in a GMP regulated environment
• Writing scientifically sound technical documents
• Compiling data for registration dossier
• End-to-end understanding of business processes and ability to propose changes to strive for high efficiency
• Highly motivated to work on novel technologies and scouting for new technologies
• Work in a team-oriented environment and respect diversity and inclusion when interacting with partners and colleagues