Associate Microbiology

Pfizer Inc.

Vizag, India

Job posting number: #7151830 (Ref:pf-4885726)

Posted: June 4, 2023

Application Deadline: Open Until Filled

Job Description

Why Patients Need You

Everything we do, every day, is in line with an unwavering commitment to the quality and the delivery of safe and effective products to patients.  Our science and risk-based compliant quality culture is flexible, innovative, and customer oriented. Whether you are involved in development, maintenance, compliance or analysis through research programs, your contribution will directly impact patients.  

What You Will Achieve

You will be a member of Pfizer’s dedicated and highly effective quality assurance and control team. Your knowledge of quality control will be helpful to support our quality programs. Your ability to analyze chemical, biological or microbiological products will help us manage our quality. Your contribution to environmental testing, utility monitoring, analytical testing, microbial identification and sterility testing will help Pfizer provide safe drugs to its patients.

Your qualifications of unique Quality Control instruments will help us meet accuracy specifications for sample management, retains managements, interpretation and evaluation. You will also be relied on for establishing requirements for the transfer of methodology from R&D.

As an associate, your focus on the job will contribute in achieving project tasks and goals. Through your domain knowledge and commitment, you will create a collaborative teaming environment for your colleagues.

It is your hard work and focus that will help in making Pfizer ready to achieve new milestones and help patients across the globe.

How You Will Achieve It

  • Assist in preparation of media, maintenance of dehydrated and prepared media stocks, and sterilization of media accessories by autoclave cycles.
  • Assist in maintenance of Master cultures Isolates and preparation of Cryo vials.
  • Manage receipt, storage and handling of Bio ball cultures.
  • Perform water analysis, Microbial Limit Test, Sterility tests, Bacterial Endotoxin Test and Assays, CCIT and micro challenge studies.
  • Ensure training records are updated and correctly filed to reflect current testing capabilities.
  • Perform sampling and labeling of materials as per defined procedure and verification of all the equipment / instruments.
  • Interpret and evaluate data in terms of accuracy, precision, trends and potential Good Manufacturing Practices {also cGMP} impact and recommend appropriate corrective actions.
  • Ensure all documentations and quality records are conducted in accordance to Good Manufacturing Practices and Good Laboratory Practices requirements and that they are filed in accordance to existing policies.
  • Review and revise Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), analytical methods and related procedures/documents, to keep them current.
  • Perform analyses on finished products, raw materials, and components including entry, review, and/or approval of data in a computerized database and generate EMS reports.
  • Conduct Microbiological protocols on an as needed basis.
  • Contribute to the completion of complex projects, manage own time to meet agreed targets and develop plans for work activities on own projects within a team.

Qualifications

Must-Have

  • Master's degree in microbiology (0-4 Years of experience).
  • Demonstrated technical skills in method validation and testing.
  • Ability to read and understand applicable compendial methods, Standard Operating Procedures, technical procedures, and governmental regulations
  • Knowledge of Good Manufacturing Practices and its application standards, processes and policies
  • Excellent organizational skills and strong ability to multi-task
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills

Nice-to-Have

  • Laboratory work experience with Microbiological techniques.
  • Experience leading continuous improvement projects
  • Knowledge of lean manufacturing, six sigma methodologies, and statistics

  
Work Location Assignment: On Premise

Pfizer is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction in which it operates.

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Pfizer is committed to equal opportunity in the terms and conditions of employment for all employees and job applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, gender identity or gender expression, national origin, disability or veteran status. Pfizer also complies with all applicable national, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act and IRCA. Pfizer is an E-Verify employer.


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Job posting number:#7151830 (Ref:pf-4885726)
Application Deadline:Open Until Filled
Employer Location:Pfizer Inc.
New York,New York
United States
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