Analytical Laboratory Clerk, Research & Development

Analytical Laboratory Clerk, Research & Development

Position Summary

Catalent is a global, high-growth, public company, and a leading partner for the pharmaceutical industry in the development and manufacturing of new treatments for patients worldwide. Your talents, ideas, and passion are essential to our mission: to help people live better, healthier lives.

St. Petersburg is our primary soft gel development and manufacturing facility in North America with capacity of 18 billion capsules per year.  Within the Catalent network, we offer a broad range of integrated formulation and analytical services to solve difficult development and manufacturing challenges.

The Analytical Research and Development (AR&D) laboratory that supports evaluation and testing of raw materials, excipients, APIs, in-process and finished product samples. AR&D also performs development and validation of methods used to support release and stability testing of non-commercial products and materials. The department provides analytical services to manufacturing, process development, validation and new material qualifications. AR&D interacts with clients to provide not only research and testing of products, but also support CMC development activities in support of client regulatory filings. Activities are performed in accordance with specifications, standard operating procedures, approved test methods and/or protocols, regulatory requirements, and St. Petersburg's Quality departmental policies.

The Analytical Laboratory Clerk, Research and Development supports AR&D by maintaining an operating laboratory, including tasks such as: disposing of laboratory waste, stocking the warehouse with solvents, ensuring solvents in the laboratory are stocked, restocking of lab consumables, performing routine review of standard inventory and removal of expired standards, and other services as necessary. The Analytical Laboratory Clerk, R&D is responsible to maintain reference standard and column inventories as well as reference standard COA database.

Catalent is committed to a Patient First culture through excellence in quality and compliance, and to the safety of every patient, consumer and Catalent employee.

The Role

• Responsible to maintain reference standard and column inventories as well as reference standard COA database.

• On a routine basis, ensures that the laboratory is in an audit ready state. The laboratory assistant will be responsible for cleaning of the dissolution baths, water baths, sonicators, and wiping down the bench tops.

• Assist with gathering of supplies for analysts to execute daily work assignments.

• Performs additional daily cleaning of communal areas to ensure hygienically safe for next user.

• Ensures general use equipment areas are neat, clean and clear.

• Assists with gathering data and making copies of reports and notebooks for customer and regulatory audits.

• Separately, assists with providing copies of notebook pages to auditors for efficient auditing process on an as needed basis.

• Embraces the continuous improvement attitude and contributes to laboratory operational excellence. Assists others in the implementation of continuous improvement initiatives in the laboratory.

• Maintains a safe work environment. Builds and maintains communication and collaboration with various departments such as product development, quality control, safety, metrology, quality assurance and others as necessary.

• Comply with Catalent, FDA, EPA and OSHA regulations, performing all work in a safe manner.

• Other duties as assigned.

The Candidate

• Requires a minimum of a high school diploma.

• Previous experience in chemical, medical or pharmaceutical setting or laboratory a plus.

• General understanding of both chemical and biological hazards.

• Vision Requirement: ability to read documents in English.

• Vision requirements include ability to differentiate color (Pass the Ishihara Color Vision Screening) and obtain 20/30 acuity in both far and near vision with or without corrective lenses. For Catalent's in-house screening, the acceptable score is to identify at least 4 of 6 numbers in the circles.

• Individual may be required to sit, stand, walk, regularly and lift to 25 pounds; no lifting greater than 44.09 pounds without assistance.

Why You Should Join Catalent

• Competitive medical benefits and 401K

• 152 hours of PTO + 8 Paid Holidays

• Dynamic, fast-paced work environment

• Opportunity to work on Continuous Improvement Processes

Catalent offers rewarding opportunities to further your career! Join the global drug development and delivery leader and help us bring over 7,000 life-saving and life-enhancing products to patients around the world. Catalent is an exciting and growing international company where employees work directly with pharma, biopharma and consumer health companies of all sizes to advance new medicines from early development to clinical trials and to the market. Catalent produces more than 70 billion doses per year, and each one will be used by someone who is counting on us. Join us in making a difference.

Catalent is committed to the health and safety of its employees, visitors and the customers and patients we serve. As a result of the global pandemic, we have modified many of our recruitment and on-boarding processes to maintain everyone's safety. The Human Resources teams will communicate all necessary safety processes and procedures throughout each stage.

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Catalent is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and veterans.

If you require reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process due to a disability, you may submit your request by sending an email, and confirming your request for an accommodation and include the job number, title and location to DisabilityAccommodations@catalent.com. This option is reserved for individuals who require accommodation due to a disability. Information received will be processed by a U.S. Catalent employee and then routed to a local recruiter who will provide assistance to ensure appropriate consideration in the application or hiring process.

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