As a Chemical Process Development Research Associate at Baxter in Braine L'Alleud, you will play a pivotal role in driving product development and innovation. You will collaborate with the R&D and Process Development Team to transition products from lab and pilot scales to full manufacturing scale, ensuring they meet global market needs.
Your responsibilities will include designing and implementing chemical processes for Baxter products, initiating studies that adhere to exacting aseptic processing standards. Demonstrating your technical expertise, you will create comprehensive protocols and reports that support products throughout their life cycle. This includes improving and validating modifications of existing commercial products, leading remediation and investigation studies on marketed products, running technical transfers to other sites, and assessing the chemical processes of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) in a GMP environment, whether at Baxter or with suppliers.
In exploratory initiatives, you will engage with multidisciplinary teams to drive innovation, identifying and recommending groundbreaking technologies and improvements. You will translate customer needs into actionable requirements, concepts, and prototypes. Additionally, you will collaborate closely with Manufacturing, R&D, Procurement, Project Management, and other functions to develop new products and enhance existing ones. This includes managing change controls related to suppliers, materials, or processes, and partnering with the Product Safety Management (PSM) and product design teams to identify, verify, and select raw materials for finished products.
Your soft skills will be equally important. You will present information and study results clearly and effectively to stakeholders, understand project prioritization and milestones, and foster collaboration within project sub-teams to ensure successful execution of assignments. Furthermore, you will contribute to the growth of the Process Development team by sharing knowledge and expertise, enhancing overall process understanding.