Process Engineering Assistant (Intern)

Location: San Diego, CA

Process Engineering Assistant (Intern)

Position Summary

Work Schedule: Part-time (15-20/hours per week) Monday-Friday between 8am-5pm

100% on-site (San Diego)

Catalent, Inc. is a leading global Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO), and Catalent’s San Diego facility focuses on early-stage development of small molecule and peptide drug candidates from the bench to the clinic.  This facility offers an array of services that support oral and injectable dosage forms that include pre-formulation testing, formulation and analytical development, cGMP manufacturing and clinical packaging, labeling, and worldwide distribution.  Our San Diego location is the home of our Catalent Spray Drying technologies with downstream roller compaction capabilities to support the needs of our client’s most challenging compounds.

Catalent offers students a fun and stimulating environment to gain lab experience and exposure to pharmaceutical equipment and systems. Process Engineering Assistants (Interns) will have the opportunity to support R&D scale-up and process development by drafting, executing, and documenting development batch records, performing routine experiments, and generating technical reports under engineering or chemistry supervision. If you are a UC San Diego student and are hired, you are likely eligible to enroll in the UC San Diego School of Biological Sciences Co-Op Program. In addition to paid work experience at Catalent, you’d gain professional development and science communication training through a UC San Diego course for academic credit. (This is the Co-Op Program link: https://biology.ucsd.edu/education/career/co-op/index.html)

• *This is a PART TIME, PAID, YEAR-ROUND student internship, and all students are required to commit 15-20 hours per week (NOTE: bachelor’s degree graduates will not be considered). To be considered for this San Diego-based internship, you must be able to work on-site weekly**

The Role

Draft development batch records (DBRs) for R&D scale up experiments.

Document experiments in DBRs under the supervision of a full-time engineer.

May perform routine experiments without supervision.

Assist in experimentation and development activities under the supervision of a full-time pharmaceutical process engineer or chemist.

Complete executed DBRs and generate technical reports.

Setup, breakdown, and cleaning of designated manufacturing/laboratory equipment. Maintain a clean and organized laboratory workspace.

Work with engineering team to troubleshoot and maintain manufacturing/laboratory equipment. Work on process improvement projects for the Process Engineering team.

Learn and comply with all cGMP practices in use at Catalent San Diego. All duties performed in compliance with SOPs

Other duties as assigned

The Candidate

Must currently be a full time (ideally third year) Engineering student. Chemical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering majors preferred.

Completion of college level science lab and familiarity with basic lab equipment.

Basic knowledge of chemistry and statistics is preferred.

Availability to work 15-20 hours per week on-site during the hours of 8am-5pm, Monday-Friday (no exceptions)

Housing assistance and/or relocation are NOT available for this role

Physical Requirements: On an average day this position requires the ability to walk, sit and stand, use hands to handle or feel, reach with hands and arms at or above shoulder height and below waist height, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; talk and hear, smell and lift up to 25 pounds. Specific vision requirements including reading of written documents, visual inspection of materials and use of computer monitor screen frequently

Pay

The annual pay range for this position in San Diego, CA is $20/hour. The final salary offered to a successful candidate may vary, and will be dependent on several factors that may include but are not limited to: the type and length of experience within the job, type and length of experience within the industry, skillset, education, business needs, etc.  Catalent is a multi-state employer, and this salary range may not reflect positions that work in other states.

Why you should join Catalent

Awesome employee activities:  Movie Day, Monthly Birthday Celebrations, Friday Bagel Breakfast, On-site Fitness Center with machines, Sponsored Sports Teams, and several other company-sponsored events that encourages positive employee comradery, which contributes to effectively building positive employee relationships, overall creating a positive work environment.

Environmentally friendly green initiatives with on-site practices as well as regularly participating in Beach Clean-up activities for community engagement.

Several Employee Resource Groups focusing on Diversity and Inclusion.

Competitive salary/hourly rate offering students an amazing company to add to your resume before graduation with exciting hands-on lab experience.

Positive and fast-paced working environment focusing on continually improving processes to remain innovative and dynamic.

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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