Quality Engineer-1

Job Title: Quality Engineer-1
Location: Elkton, VA
Duration:  12 Months+

Shift time: First Shift: 8 am – 5 pm

Second Shift: 2:30pm-10:30 (most of the time, sometimes 8-5)
Rotating 12 Hour Shift (mostly 2pm-2am with some 6am – 6pm; 7 days a week)
 
Job Responsibilities:
• Providing technical support for vaccine, biologic, and sterile manufacturing processes in the form of data analysis, troubleshooting, problem-solving, report writing
• Supporting change control implementation
• Learning new processes and procedures
• Performing shift work as needed
• Conducting technical investigations and analyses
• Recommending and implementing corrective and preventative actions, and helping lead reduction of atypical events
• Writing, reviewing, and improving procedures for operation of equipment and processes
• Contributing to process and equipment safety reviews
 
Qualifications:
• B.S. or M.S. degree in, biology, biochemistry, biochemical engineering, biological systems engineering, biomedical engineering, chemical engineering, computer science, integrated science, or related disciplines and 0-3 years of relevant industrial experience.
•Beta Lactam required so no known allergy
 
 
Skills:
• Excellent academic record
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, team skills, personal character, and ethics
• Strong problem-solving skills and a hands-on approach to problem solving, with a bias towards going to see problems for oneself in the field.
• Ability to examine an issue from diverse perspectives (safety, compliance, maintenance, automation, equipment, process, and people) in order to best understand and resolve it.
• Enthusiasm, confidence, and initiative-taking ability needed for continuous learning and its applications.
• Strong desire to succeed and to help others to do the same.
Heavily Preferred Experiences:
• Experience working in a cGMP environment
• Work, co-op, or internship experience in industry