Pharmaceutical Development Technician

Bristol-Myers Squibb is a global BioPharma company firmly focused on its mission to discover, develop and deliver innovative medicines to patients with serious diseases.

Daily assignments will be based on demonstrated technical competence of the individual technician and the demands of the process. Priorities will be set based on the needs of the PRI business. Both written procedures and verbal instructions by a supervisor will be executed with strict attention to safety and quality. Accurate and timely execution and documentation of activities and results are a requirement. Strict adherence to cGLP/GMP, federal, state and local regulations is required. Collaborative work with other employees is a necessity to achieve departmental and company goals.

* Maintaining documentation interface with laboratory and inventory information management systems, facilities and equipment under strict compliance to GLP, GMP, federal, state and local regulations. * Laboratory activities and preparative experiments include, but are not limited to the following: * Preparation of buffers and other media, physical, chemical and mechanical analysis, lab experiments and preparative experiments set ups, preps of reagents, solutions, waste handling. * Familiarity and demonstrated competency after training with test equipment including, but not limited to the following: HPLC systems, GC systems, automated UV-diode array systems, powder characterization equipment, calorimetric characterization equipment, NIR, Raman, ROI, LOD, KF, etc is required. * Process scale-up activities include, but are not limited to, executing and documenting with strict attention to quality and safety unit operations such as distillation, crystallization, reaction, extraction, filtration, solids handling, subdivision and sizing, etc. * Set-up, operation, sampling, clean-up of and data acquisition from, including electronic and manual collection, both manual and computer controlled process and utility equipment such as reactors, centrifuges, dryers, mills, pumps, meters, tanks, thermal oxidizers, temperature controller modules, scrubbers, etc. will be required and performed based on written or verbal instructions from supervisor and/or professional staff. * Proficiency in operating and understanding principles of commonly used equipment and test equipment used for in-process testing must be demonstrated following training. * Some projects will require working in clean/aseptic areas and anti-cancer/containment areas using established handling procedures.

**Qualified applicants will have the following background & experience:** A two year Associated Degree in Science related to pharmaceutical development or equivalent or for the pilot plant operations (Bldg. 47, 53, 55, 97 and 98) A minimum of 5 years experience in bulk fine chemicals, bulk API, or petro chemical organic processing in a manufacturing or research and development environment. Proficiency in use of computer programs/systems is essential. Technicians must maintain their skills and knowledge current with advances in the field of pharmaceutical development. Incumbents may attend internal or external training courses as approved by management. Bristol-Myers Squibb is an equal opportunity employer - Vet/Disability 1505671