2027 Future Talent Program - Bioprocess Clinical Manufacturing & Technology Co-Op

Job Description

The Future Talent Program features Cooperative (Co-op) education that lasts 4-6 months and will include one or more projects. These opportunities in our Research Division can provide you with great development and a chance to see if we are the right company for your long-term goals. Our Research Scientists and Engineers are our inventors. We identify and target steps in disease mechanisms or pathways that could be inhibited or enhanced. Our goal is to isolate a compound that is effective against a disease target. Using innovative thinking, state-of-the-art facilities, and robust scientific methodology we collaborate to discover the next medical breakthrough. We are seeking candidates for a co-op opportunity in our company's Vaccines and Advanced Biotechnologies Process R&D division. Specifically, this candidate would work within West Point’s Biologics Pilot Plant (BPP) GMP clinical manufacturing facility. Under the direction of a project mentor, a successful candidate may work on initiatives within either the automation, process operations, or capital sub-team in the BCMT (Bioprocess Clinical Manufacturing and Technology) department.

Example Projects/Day to Day Work

Automation: Develop code for process control, monitoring, and visualization. Develop tools to increase efficiency in the automation group and the BCMT department as a whole. Day-to-day work might include writing code, working on GMP change controls and documentation, and equipment/system testing. Process Operations: Knowledge Management overhaul: review and clean-up SharePoint, implement playbooks for new ways of working, update templates for key deliverables. New equipment qualification support. Day-to-day work might include attending team meetings, GMP manufacturing support, equipment testing, and document generation. Capital: Equipment specification, installation, testing, and qualification. Day-to-day work may include document generation and field execution of equipment commissionin