Scientist I Purification Process Development

Scientist I Purification Process Development

Evotec

Toulouse, France

Just – Evotec Biologics’ Purification Process Development group is seeking an enthusiastic and hardworking team member who is passionate about expanding worldwide access to biotherapeutics through the advancement of continuous bioprocessing technology.  This person will join a fast-paced, collaborative, and multidisciplinary team to support purification process development at the bench and pilot scale for the advancement of low-cost biotherapeutics manufacturing. Process design at Just-Evotec means exposure to innovative technologies like high throughput automated robotic screening and continuous processing technologies for a first-of-its-kind flexible and reconfigurable manufacturing facility. The successful candidate will have experience/knowledge in chromatography and filtration theory and operations. Experience with high throughput chromatography screening, chromatography mechanistic modeling, multicolumn chromatography and/or process modeling is a plus. Strong written and verbal communication in English is required.  Experience with common software packages (such as Microsoft Office, Google Suite, etc.) is required.  Finally, the ideal candidate is curious, creative, engaged, and the type who works well independently and in teams while constantly looking for ways to advance scientific processes and improve technology.

Missions and responsibilities:

• Develop purification processes for biotherapeutics manufacturing;
• Transfer processes to clinical and commercial manufacturing facilities;
• Technology development to reduce the cost and improve the efficiency of purification processes;
• Clearly and effectively communicating scientific information, experimental plans, and data;
• Maintaining the purification lab in compliance with the internal started;
• Maintaining the consumables for purification team;
• Authoring work instructions, protocols, reports, and slides in English which summarize, organize, and interpret experiment results with review by appropriate team members.

Knowledge, skills and abilities:

• Experience with chromatography operations including using AKTA chromatography systems;
• Experience/knowledge with filtration operation including executing bench-scale dead-end filtration, viral filtration, UF/DF, and depth filtration;
• Experience with high throughput process development systems is a plus;
• Experience/Knowledge with multi column chromatography is a plus.

Experience and education:

• Master’s degree in engineering, Biochemistry, Biotechnology or related field with 0 - 5 years of experience;
• Proficiency in both verbal and written English is essential.

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