Associate Scientist

Associate Scientist

Position Summary

Catalent’s Greenville, N.C. facility specializes in end-to-end turn-key solutions for oral solid dosage forms, including integrated formulation development, analytical services, commercial manufacturing, and packaging. This state-of-the-art facility has had over $100M of investments in recent years and features fit-for-scale capacity with potent handling capabilities, ideal for orphan or targeted drug development. Catalent is committed to a Patient First culture through excellence in quality and compliance, and to the safety of every patient, consumer and Catalent employee.

The Associate Scientist serves as a primary point of contact with the client regarding pharmaceutical development and clinical manufacturing project related activities. The Associate Scientist is responsible for supporting these activities in the areas of supervision, process development, clinical trial batch manufacturing, packing and documentation. 

Catalent, Inc. is a leading global contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) whose mission is to develop, manufacture, and supply products that help people live better and healthier lives. Catalent is dedicated to delivering unparalleled service to pharma, biotech, and consumer health customers, supporting product development, launch, and full life-cycle supply. With time-tested experience in development sciences, delivery technologies, and multi-modality manufacturing, Catalent supports the acceleration of development programs and the launch of more than a hundred new products every year. Powered by thousands of scientists and technicians and the latest technology platforms at more than 40 global sites, Catalent supplies billions of doses of life-enhancing and life-saving treatments for patients annually.

The Role

• Organize multiple responsibilities to ensure tasks are appropriately prioritized and executed on time.

• Assist in the design, coordination, and execution of development and CTM activities, including formulation, data interpretation, equipment selection, generation of batch records and other appropriate documentation, and problem-solving exercises.

• Ongoing communication with internal support groups, resources, vendors, staff, and occasionally clients.

• Support departmental and corporate objectives.

• All other duties as assigned.

The Candidate

• Associate degree in Life Sciences field with at least two years of pharmaceutical experience OR Bachelor’s degree in pharmaceutical-relevant field (e.g., Chemistry, Engineering, Pharmaceutical Sciences, etc.)

• Some exposure to hazardous chemicals and other active chemical ingredients.

• Position requires the capacity to handle and manipulate objects using hands and arms.

• Requires ability to occasionally lift items in excess of 50 pounds.

Why You Should Work At Catalent

• Spearhead exciting and innovative projects

• Fast-paced, dynamic environment

• High visibility to members at all levels of the organization

• 152 hours of PTO + 8 paid holidays

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. 

personal initiative. dynamic pace. meaningful work.

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Catalent is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and veterans.

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