Associate Scientist II, Quality Control

Associate Scientist II, Quality Control

Position Summary

• Work Schedule: Monday through Friday, Standard Hours
• 100% on-site

Join Catalent’s flagship softgel development and manufacturing facility in North America, located in St. Petersburg, FL, with a capacity of 18 billion capsules per year. This role offers competitive pay, day-one benefits, and career growth in a state-of-the-art, turn-key facility.

The Associate Scientist II, Quality Control role is responsible for independently performing testing and developing assays to identify and characterize raw materials, in-process samples, stability samples, and finished products. The position involves analyzing and documenting data in compliance with cGMP and internal guidelines, communicating results, and supporting procedures, specifications, and test method development. This role is fully on-site in St. Petersburg and includes training colleagues, continuous improvement efforts, and strict adherence to FDA, EPA, OSHA, and safety requirements.

The Role

• Analysis of finished products, in-process materials, fill moisture, raw materials, and cleaning verification and validation samples according to the assigned specifications, methods and protocols.
• Performs analysis of finished products, validation samples, in-process materials and raw materials, moisture testing, Gas, Water and manufacturing environmental sampling and testing according to the effective
• Specifications, protocols, Methods and Compendial monograms.
• Cultivate and identify bacteria or other microorganisms isolated on selective and non-selective media.
• Maintains cultures according to ATCC and departmental Standard Operating Procedures.
• Performs identification of microorganisms using techniques such as API, Gram Stain, etc.
• Prepares reagents, standards, Medias, etc. needed for analysis.
• Interprets and tabulates results of analysis. Records the results in approved notebooks, reports and logbooks.
• Other duties as assigned.

The Candidate

• Requires BS or BA with college course work in related sciences.
• Analytical laboratory experience preferred but not required.
• Experience with common pharmaceutical laboratory equipment including but not limited to: experience with U.V. spectroscopy experience with IR and AA instrumentation, H.P.L.C. and G.C. instrumentation experience, Autoclave, Vitek, and dissolution testing.
• Expertise in wet chemistry techniques such as titrations, extractions, digestions and preparations of test solutions.
• Individual may be required to sit, stand, walk regularly and occasionally lift to 15 pounds; no lifting greater than 44.09 pounds without assistance.
• Vision requirements include ability to differentiate color (Pass the Ishihara Color Vision Screening) and obtain 20/30 acuity in both far and near vision with or without corrective lenses. For Catalent’s in-house screening, the acceptable score is to identify at least 4 of 6 numbers in the circles.

Why You Should Join Catalent 

• Competitive medical benefits and 401K 
• 152 hours of PTO + 8 Paid Holidays 
• Dynamic, fast-paced work environment 
• Opportunity to work on Continuous Improvement Processes

Catalent offers rewarding opportunities to further your career!  Join the global drug development and delivery leader and help us bring over 7,000 life-saving and life-enhancing products to patients around the world. Catalent is an exciting and growing international company where employees work directly with pharma, biopharma and consumer health companies of all sizes to advance new medicines from early development to clinical trials and to the market. Catalent produces more than 70 billion doses per year, and each one will be used by someone who is counting on us. Join us in making a difference. 

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