The QC Microbiology Analyst I is responsible for performing functions including environmental monitoring, utilities monitoring, and testing in a facility that manufactures sterile products and tablets in a GMP environment.
Responsibilities:
- Perform environmental monitoring in aseptic, classified, and controlled areas (routine, batch, quarterly EM). Direct support of the manufacturing schedule will be required, which may include over time, weekend or shift work, and holidays
- Perform utilities monitoring (WFI, CLST, PW, RO, CAIR, NIT, PWTR) and testing (Endotoxin, TOC, Conductivity, Nitrates, Bioburden)
- Enumerate organisms on cultured media for environmental monitoring and utility samples.
- Review of routine paperwork
- Perform basic lab tasks such as hood cleans, autoclave, dry heat oven, lab cleans etc.
Qualifications:
- High School diploma - Minimum 1+ years of experience working in a manufacturing and/or regulated environment preferred.
- Associate or B.S. degree – Some coursework or experience working in a manufacturing and/or regulated environment preferred.
- Ability to work hands-on in a microbiological laboratory and manufacturing environment.
- No inhibitions regarding safely handling microorganisms present in the laboratory and no health conditions/allergies that would prevent them from doing so or conditions which would prevent them from aseptically gowning.
- Walking, lifting, pushing and pulling carts, reaching, climbing, and bending may all be required.
- Prolonged periods of sitting/standing and occasional periods of repetitive motion.
- Steel toe shoes, scrubs, safety glasses and other PPE equipment must be worn based on job being performed.
- Makeup and jewelry not permitted for work in classified areas.
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Alkermes applies its deep neuroscience expertise to develop medicines designed to help people living with complex and difficult-to-treat psychiatric and neurological disorders. A fully-integrated, global biopharmaceutical company, headquartered in Ireland with U.S. locations in Massachusetts and Ohio, we are committed to pursuing great science, driven by deep compassion to make a real impact in the lives of patients. Alkermes has a portfolio of proprietary commercial products for the treatment of alcohol dependence, opioid dependence, schizophrenia and bipolar I disorder, and a pipeline of clinical and preclinical candidates in development for various neurological disorders, including narcolepsy.
Beyond our important mission of developing medicines to address unmet patient needs, we actively seek to foster a culture of diversity, inclusion and belonging throughout our business. We strive to ensure that all voices are respected and valued, recognizing that our diversity of thought, background and perspective makes us stronger. We are proud to have been recognized as an employer of choice by many national organizations, including being certified as a Great Place to Work in the U.S. in 2024, honored as a Healthiest Employer in both Ohio and Massachusetts in 2023, a Best Place for Working Parents in 2023, and to have received the Bell Seal at the Platinum level for Workplace Mental Health by Mental Health America for three consecutive years (2021-2023).
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