Associate Scientist / Data Engineer Process Development

Location: Netherlands

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The Company

Our client is a professional Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology organisation, based in Zuid-Holland Netherlands. Janssen Vaccines is committed to developing first-in-class or best-in-class vaccines for some of the world’s most life-threatening infectious diseases. We partner with many of the world’s leading experts, academic and clinical institutions and other pharmaceutical companies for the development of vaccines against, for example, Ebola and HIV.

In our organization entrepreneurial people are working in a dynamic culture in which innovation and a 'can do' state of mind are the central points. In order to strengthen our team we are continuously looking for enthusiastic, talented people who have the ambition to develop themselves and can be of value to Janssen Vaccines.

Role Description

The drug-substance development (DSD) department is responsible for the development of scalable, pharmaceutical-grade upstream and downstream processes for viral vaccines using mammalian cell lines as a production platform. Novel technologies are used to make sure that the processes are safe, reliable, scalable and cost-effective, so that the vaccines can be produced in large quantities at low costs. The developed processes are transferred into GMP production facilities for the production of clinical batches and scaled-up for commercial production. All activities are performed in close collaboration with other departments.

Responsibilities

We are looking for a motivated Data Engineer within the field of Process development. With several of our projects moving into late stage, the need to support our studies by means of historical data analysis has increased. Furthermore, we need to increase data-integrity by performing additional reviews. You will be primary responsible for data verification and translating this data into re-portable formats as well as historical data mining. You will also perform basic data analysis and statistics from which you will report the main conclusions. Finally, you will be involved in the development and improvement of data management systems. The results of your work will be directly used for regulatory submissions.

Requirements

- MSc. in a relevant discipline in biopharmaceutical / biomedical sciences/engineering, biotechnology
- Must have 1-3 years of experience in process development (lab/production/biotechnology)
- Strong affinity with data management and data analysis.
- Experience with production, technology transfer and knowledge of GMP is an advantage

Other information

Full time only. You will start at Janssen with a year contract, followed by a possible extension.

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