Associate Director – Engineering

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🏄 California, Pennsylvania – Remote

🏄 California – Remote 🔔 Pennsylvania – Remote

💵 $142.4k - $224.1k / year

⏰ Full Time

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MSD

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1891

🧬 Biotechnology

💊 Pharmaceuticals

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

Biotechnology • Pharmaceuticals • Healthcare Insurance

MSD is a leading biopharmaceutical company known as Merck & Co. , Inc. in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico, and as MSD globally. The company focuses on scientific innovation to deliver medicines and vaccines for various health challenges, including oncology, vaccines, infectious diseases, and cardio-metabolic diseases. MSD operates multiple divisions, including Human Health, Animal Health, and Research & Development. With approximately 75,000 employees worldwide and a significant investment in research and development, MSD is committed to improving global health through its scientific advancements. Additionally, the company places a strong emphasis on diversity, inclusion, and corporate responsibility. MSD’s operations extend worldwide, offering opportunities in numerous regions and promoting diversity and innovation in all aspects of its business.

📋 Description

• Create, lead and execute technical transfers to and commercial supply from External Partner(s). • Collaborate across multiple technical functions to ensure the success technical transfer and commercial manufacture with the External Partner(s). • Provide a single point of technical contact to assigned External Partners. • Provides technical oversight, management, and planning support for complex partnership models. • Functions independently and provides coordination, communication, and oversight of assigned External Partner technical issues. • Accountable to External Manufacturing for overall tech transfer delivery (on-time, within budget). • Provides technical guidance to the External Partner, assess viability of technology in proposed process configurations, verify adherence to required standards. • Collaborates with Procurement, External Manufacturing Operations, External Quality, Regulatory, and others to evaluate External Partner(s) for inclusion in the Company Network. • Executes technical due diligence assessments at External Partner(s). • Ensures tech transfers are positioned for successful business outcomes. • Leads team for identification and assessment of partner risks and develops mitigation plans. • Provides manufacturing process support to External Partner(s) to resolve production issues and to provide guidance on process and capacity optimization. • Ensures targeted communications and alignment across technical functions. • Guides and coaches others in change leadership.

🎯 Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or applicable Science is required. • An advanced degree in Engineering, Science, or Business is preferred. • Minimum of 8 (eight) years post-bachelor’s degree experience in Drug Substance and/or Drug Product vaccines and/or biologics manufacturing, engineering, and/or technical support of operations is required • Expertise and demonstrated accomplishments leading technical transfers is required • Experience in leading cross-functional teams in support of manufacturing operations at internal sites or External Partner(s) is preferred • Expertise and demonstrated accomplishments with Lean Manufacturing applications to ensure year on year productivity improvements is preferred • Advanced problem-solving skills and experience leading teams to resolve complex business or technical issues is required. • Excellent leadership, collaboration, change management, interpersonal, analytical skills, collaboration, and engagement as a team player with dependable interpersonal and communication skills (both verbal and written) is required. • Ability to motivate a team around a common vision and deliver expected results is preferred. • Creative, innovative, thinks outside of the box, self-motivated, applies problem-solving skills, and solid base in engineering fundamentals and process troubleshooting is preferred. • Experience in complex international environment with matrix organization structures is preferred. • Experience in Large Molecule unit operation design, startup, and/or operation is preferred.

🏖️ Benefits

• medical, dental, vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family) • retirement benefits, including 401(k) • paid holidays • vacation • compassionate and sick days