Process Associate Iii

A career at our company is an ongoing journey of discovery: our 60,300 people are shaping how the world lives, works and plays through next generation advancements in Healthcare, Life Science and Electronics. For more than 350 years and across the world we have passionately pursued our curiosity to find novel and vibrant ways of enhancing the lives of others.

A career at our company is an ongoing journey of discovery: our 60,300 people are shaping how the world lives, works and plays through next generation advancements in Healthcare, Life Science and Electronics. For more than 350 years and across the world we have passionately pursued our curiosity to find novel and vibrant ways of enhancing the lives of others.

**WHO WE ARE**:
Merck is a leading science and technology company. Its life science business offers a broad range of innovative products and services to biotech and pharmaceutical drug therapies businesses. Through dedicated collaboration with the scientific and engineering communities, and as one of the top three R&D investors in the life science tools industry, the brand serves as a strategic partner to customers and helps advance the promise of life science.

**YOUR ROLE**:
As Process Associate Scientist I/II - Viral Clearance you will be part of the Merck Process Solutions Services team that designs and delivers Viral Clearance validation studies for biopharmaceutical companies across the APAC region. In this role you will perform a variety of GMP/GLP operations and conduct client processes for Viral Clearance studies. You will maintain the process laboratories and equipment in the validated state and conduct client studies with appropriate regulatory compliance under the oversight of the Study Director, independently performing virus reduction filtration (VRF) and execute chromatographic process under mínimal supervision.As part of your daily responsibilities, you may also support investigations, lead improvement/ lab projects, and generate SOPs as required. The Process Associate Scientist II will work closely with the rest of process team, study management, lab study coordinating (LSC) team and end-point testing team to execute client studies on time and right first time.

The post holder will be able to perform the following functions.

**Brief role description**:

- Works within the Viral Clearance laboratories following Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and relevant compliance regulations.
- May execute tech transfer of client processes into the BioReliance laboratories according to the client's technical documentation and SOPs, under guidance of Process Scientist.
- May prepare high quality VRF (nanofiltration) workbooks.
- Independently performs client scale-down virus nanofiltration operations, and work closely with VRF vendor toensure VRF process is completed according toschedule.
- Execution of client's scale-down chromatographic processes with mínimal supervision.
- Works closely together with study management team, lab study coordinating (LSC) team, end-point testing team, Quality and PMO to ensure client studies are completed on time, to the appropriate scientific and regulatory standards.
- Accurately and promptly records data to meet appropriate scientific and GLP/GMP regulatory standards.
- May support in investigations of study deviations/laboratory events as required.
- Housekeeping of labs: performsweekly/monthlycleanings/inventory/housekeeping.Ensure thatconsumables needed in the client labs are availablethroughout the week (when studies are on-going).Tosupport Point Of Contact (POC) of each client lab inall activities that pertain to general dailyhousekeeping & maintenance of the labs. Ensures equipment in labs are maintained in the validated state with timely implementation of periodic maintenance and calibration. Able to develop working knowledge of Operational Excellence tools (6S, Six Sigma) to drive Continuous Improvement in lab.
- Ensures a safe and healthy work environment at all times by not only complying with but actively embracing health and safety policies and procedures, ensuring the safety of yourself and others within the workplace.
- May support in writing/revising Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and workbooks.
- May leads lab projects impacting routine operations and non-complex site-level projects. Supports more complex/global projects led by more senior Process Associate Scientist/Process Scientist/Lab Scientist. Handles events, CAPA's, GCCs impacting own lab team.
- For PAS II, the incumbent is expected to be a trainer for routine lab/client processes.

The above list of job duties is not exclusive or exhaustive and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks as may reasonably be expected within the scope of the post.

**WHO YOU ARE**:
**Education**:
**Industry & Professional Experience**:

- For PAS I, 0 to 2 years of working experience in biologics or biopharmaceutical industry; for PAS II, 2+ years of working experience in bi