Principal Scientist, QC

We're hiring for a Principal Scientist, QC to support the method transfer team in Bloomington, Indiana! 

Catalent is a global, high-growth, public company, and a leading partner for the pharmaceutical industry in the development and manufacturing of new treatments for patients worldwide. Your talents, ideas, and passion are essential to our mission: to help people live better, healthier lives. 

The Principal Scientist, QC will be a Subject Matter Expert on method transfer activities within the Quality Control department. This position will use analytical and bioanalytical techniques, and method validation guidelines to support method transfers and method validations in Quality Control. These methods directly support the Stability and Release and In-Process testing teams. This is a full-time, salaried position and is 100% site based. The schedule is Monday – Friday 1st shift. 

Catalent Biologics in Bloomington, Indiana is a state-of-the-art, GMP manufacturing facility, providing one million sq/ft of drug substance manufacturing, drug product manufacturing, and related pharmaceutical services. This award-winning facility helps customers accelerate biologic drug development programs and bring better treatments to help patients live better, healthier lives.

Catalent is committed to a Patient First culture through excellence in quality and compliance, and to the safety of every patient, consumer, and Catalent employee. 

The Role

• Independently executes and properly documents cGMP Quality Control testing including ELISA, PCR, and HPLC.

• Assists in authoring technical documents such as SOPs and reports.

• Coordinates with Supervisor to prioritize and schedule activities to meet deadlines.

• Supports continuous process improvement initiatives.

• Supports training of specific analytical techniques.

• Performs self-review of analytical data for accuracy and consistency with SOP.

• Enters data into Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) or laboratory reports.

• Other duties as assigned.

The Candidate

• Bachelor’s degree in science field with a minimum of 7 years of experience, including 4-year GMP experience or regulated industry.

• Master’s degree in science field with a minimum of 4 years of experience, including 4-year GMP experience, or regulated industry.

• PhD in science field with 4 years GMP experience, or regulated industry.

• Subject Matter Expert-level of knowledge in cGMP method transfer and method validation processes highly preferred.

• Prior experience evaluating new technologies, and troubleshooting existing QC methods highly preferred.

• Must be able to read and understand English-written job instructions and safety requirements.

Why you should join Catalent

• Medical, dental, vision, and wellness benefits are effective on the first day of employment.

• Potential for career growth on an expanding team and organization.

• 152 hours of paid time off annually plus 8 paid holidays.

• Community engagement and green initiatives.

• Engaging D&I Employee Resource Groups.

• Tuition reimbursement program.

• Generous 401K match.

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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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Catalent is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and veterans.

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