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Process Engineer - Durham, NC Vaccine Manfuacturing Start Up-CHE002338
Description
Merck is a global health care leader with a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines and consumer health products, as well as animal health products. Today, we are building a new kind of healthcare company - one that is ready to help create a healthier future for all of us.
Our ability to excel depends on the integrity, knowledge, imagination, skill, diversity and teamwork of people like you. To this end, we strive to create an environment of mutual respect, encouragement and teamwork. As part of our global team, you'll have the opportunity to collaborate with talented and dedicated colleagues while developing and expanding your career.
The Maurice R. Hilleman Center for Vaccine Manufacturing is a state-of-the-art facility in northern Durham, North Carolina. Nestled among the trees in Treyburn Corporate Park, the modern, green facility is Merck's response to a growing vaccine business. Construction on the site has been ongoing since 2004, with two expansion announced since the project began scheduled for completion by 2012. With one facility getting closer to production status while construction is going on in other areas, employees at the Center for Vaccine Manufacturing can enjoy being at the center of a key part of Merck's future growth and success.
A part of Merck's Global Vaccine Technology and Engineering organization (GVTE), the Viral Vaccine Technology and Engineering (VVTE-Durham) group is adding 16 process Engineers and Scientists in 2010 as part of start up and ongoing manufacturing support. These individuals will partner with Manufacturing Operations, Quality Operations, Automation and Validation as a member of the demonstration team for the new Durham Vaccine Bulk Facility. The Viral VTE team provides technical and validation support for the manufacture of Merck's cell-culture based vaccines at Durham, with the team initially focused on the demonstration of a new bulk facility supporting VARIVAX (Chicken Pox Vaccine) and ZOSTAVAX (Shingles vaccine) manufacturing
Qualifications
While all of our positions require leadership as a solid foundation for success at Merck, our current positions focus on individual contribution and collaboration in areas of the VVTE group such as Technology Transfer, Validation, Capital Project Support, Virology, and Automation Support.
The current opportunities have the follow requirements:
* Engineer (BS degree in Engineering and Science required)
* Staff Engineer (BS degree in Engineering and Science and 2 - 5 years experience in support of manufacturing processes.
* Sr. Engineer (BS degree in Engineering and Science and 5-8 years experience in support of a manufacturing process with some or all of that experience under GMP (Good Manufacturing Practice) regulation.
Our employees are the key to our company's success. We demonstrate our commitment to our employees by offering a competitive and valuable rewards program. Merck's benefits are designed to support the wide range of goals, needs and lifestyles of our employees, and many of the people that matter the most in their lives.
merck.com/careers to create a profile and your resume for requisition # CHE002338.
Merck is an equal opportunity employer, M/F/D/V - proudly embracing diversity in all of its manifestations.
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Primary Location
:US-NC-Durham
Employee Status
:Regular
Number of Openings
:10
Shift (if applicable)
:N/A
Details:
Job Id:
754654A0
Posted / Updated:
4/8/2010 3:32:33 AM
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