QC Scientist I

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

Excellent Benefits Package

• Review our company’s Total Rewards
• Medical, Dental, & Vision benefits-effective Day 1
• Paid Time Off & Holidays
• 401K Company Match up to 6%
• Tuition Reimbursement – eligible after 90 days!
• Employee Referral Bonus
• Employee Discount Program
• Recognition Program
• Charitable Gift Matching
• Company Paid Parental Leave
• Career Advancement Opportunities

Location/Division Specific Information

• Florence, SC
• Hours: 7am - 7pm (2-2-3 schedule)

Summary:

Provides moderately complex analyses in a chemistry or microbiological environment within defined procedures and practices. Performs analytical methods for moderately complex testing on raw materials, samples, stability, production intermediates, environmental monitoring, sterility tests, growth promotion, microbial limits tests, and/or and antimicrobial effectiveness tests. Supports internal development and/or manufacturing operations. Makes detailed observations and reviews, documents, and communicates test results; recommends solutions.

What will you do?

Conducts moderately complex chemical and physical testing of pharmaceutical raw materials, packaging components, finished products, microbiological, and stability samples by internally developed and completed test methods. Completes validated test methods for raw materials and finished products for strength, impurities, identity, and dissolution by HPLC, GC, dissolution, spectroscopy, and traditional quantitative analysis, using HPLC, GC, LC/MS, dissolution, spectroscopy, and/or traditional wet chemical testing. Recognizes and reports out-of-specification or unexpected results and non-routine analytical and product problems; recommends solutions. Maintains and troubleshoots analytical instrumentation as needed. Clearly and accurately communicates the results of work by creating documentation of the testing/analysis and obtained results. Records and reports results of analysis in accordance with prescribed lab procedures and systems. May interact with clients. Prepares and assists in filing regulatory documents in support of internal projects. Provides communications with outside departments, corporate sites, agencies, and clients. Writes SOPs and other instructional documents. Cleans and organizes work area, instrumentation, and testing materials. Cleans HPLC and dissolution systems after use. Performs all duties in strict compliance with SOP, GMP, Good Laboratory Practices, and Safety guidelines. Maintains the necessary compliance status required by company and facility standards.

Education:

Bachelor's degree in physical science, preferably in Chemistry or Biology.

Experience:

Requires a minimum of 0-5 years of experience performing tests or analyses for pharmaceutical raw materials, finished products, or microbiological samples. Experience with common office software and chromatographic data acquisition systems preferred.

Equivalency:

Equivalent combinations of education, training, and relevant work experience may be considered.

Competencies:

Good knowledge and understanding of chemistry and analytical instrumental technologies. Good knowledge of qualitative and quantitative chemical or microbiological analysis. Good knowledge of quality and regulatory requirements in the pharmaceutical industry, including pharmaceutical GMPs and descriptive organic chemistry. Good problem solving skills and logical approach to solving scientific problems. Proficiency with HPLC, GC, LC/MS and Dissolution techniques. Good interpersonal and communication skills (both oral and written). Good presentation skills to present information to customers, clients, and other employees. Ability to read, analyze, and interpret technical procedures and governmental regulations. Ability to write standard operating procedures, simple protocols, and reports. Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers or regulatory agencies. Ability to apply mathematical operations to such tasks as determination of test reliability, analysis of variance and correlation techniques.