Senior Scientist Poultry Biologics
Senior Scientist Poultry Biologics
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Role Description
The Zoetis Poultry Biologics group is seeking an experienced innovative and highly motivated professional to significantly contribute to the discovery and development of Poultry vaccines. VMRD Global Biologics designs and develops novel biological products to address economically impactful diseases or conditions in livestock and companion animals. As an integral member of research and development project teams the candidate will design and implement R&D programs to advance vaccine development within Poultry Biologicals. The candidate will collaborate extensively with analytical formulation clinical regulatory commercial and manufacturing colleagues as part of our global multidisciplinary teams. The Senior Scientist will work autonomously as a full member of project teams or leading discipline specific subteams executing experiments and reporting results. To be successful the candidate will be an effective communicator motivated and will have knowledge in bacteriology parasitology virology and vaccinology as well as being a team player.
The position is based in Kalamazoo (Michigan USA) with frequent interactions with colleagues and external partners located around the globe.
Position Responsibilities
- Apply knowledge of biological analytical bacterial virological molecular biology and process optimization to design and execute experiments to select robust vaccine candidates and develop new and improve existing vaccines.
- Participation on research project teams and lead subteams and clinical safety/efficacy testing with the goal to license animal health Biologics.
- Drive innovation and continuous improvement by conducting laboratory experiments at scales ranging from bench side to commercial quantities.
- Serve as a technical resource to project teams by providing support in vaccinology immunology virology parasitology and microbiology required for successful project delivery. This includes open communication of experimental findings with team members peers and management.
- Document experiments in electronic laboratory notebooks and records in accordance with scientific protocol and applicable Standard Operating Procedures. Provide summaries and reports for inclusion in dossiers for product registration and technology transfer.
- Drive innovation and continuous improvement by assessing novel equipment methods and procedures to develop new and/or improve upon existing techniques.
Organizational Relationships
- The position is in the Global Biologics group. The Senior Scientist will interact with external collaborators peers and colleagues working in disciplines that include vaccine research process development clinical development analytical development molecular biology regulatory statistics quality control as well as others. Interaction with Regulatory colleagues and National Regulatory Agencies for registration activities is also expected.
- This position supports multiple products in research development launch and postlaunch phases. The Senior Scientist is expected to form collaborative working relationships with Project Team Leaders line representatives and colleagues within multidisciplinary team settings including Lab Sciences Regulatory Project Management Manufacturing Clinical Commercial Development and Life Cycle Innovation and Marketing.
Education and Experience
- Minimum: PhD in biology animal science immunology vaccinology bioengineering or related biotechnology fields with 13 years of experience in a relevant field.
- MS in biology animal science immunology vaccinology bioengineering or related biotechnology fields with 5 years of experience in a relevant field.
- Knowledge of Poultry health arena and animal infectious diseases.
- Desirable: Experience in the fields of analytical methods clinical trials parasitology bacteria propagation virus/vaccine propagation and assessment in eggs molecular biology carbohydrate vaccines recombinant expression systems and Poultry clinical experience.
- Demonstrated ability to design analyze and interpret bioanalytical assay development immunology methods process development vaccine manufacturing and vaccine development experiments.
Technical Skills Requirements
Required:
- Excellent organizational interpersonal and communication abilities (verbal and written English) with demonstrated skill in documentation scientific writing (protocols reports journal articles) and presenting data and study summaries to project teams. Computer skills required: Microsoft Word Excel Outlook PowerPoint.
- Demonstration of initiative and selfmotivation with passion to work in a collaborative and dynamic multidisciplinary team environment in a global company and able to prioritize work and work efficiently with limited supervision to meet multiple project timelines.
- Strong practical and theoretical knowledge of the scientific disciplines that support vaccine design and development.
- Independent and critical scientific thinking including a willingness to embrace evaluate and enable new technologies for the purpose of improving existing capabilities. High attention to detail.
Desirable:
- Experience in bacterial and viral propagation in vitro and in vivo molecular expertise or knowledge in recombinant expression platforms parasitology veterinary vaccine development and associated analytical and immunology methods.
- Experience designing and analyzing statistically robust in vitro and in vivo experiments using the Design of Experiment (DoE) concepts.
- Experience in vaccine clinical trials (preferably poultry) including protocol and report development in vivo techniques assessment of clinical model outcomes and interpretation of results.
- Experience working in a quality regulated environment (e.g. GMP GLP)
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Senior IC
Employment Type
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