Associate Scientist I, Analytical Research & Development

Position Summary

Catalent is a global, high-growth, public company and a leading partner for the pharmaceutical industry in the development and manufacturing of new treatments for patients worldwide. Your talents, ideas, and passion are essential to our mission: to help people live better, healthier lives.

St. Petersburg is our primary soft gel development and manufacturing facility in North America with capacity of 18 billion capsules per year.  Within the Catalent network, we offer a broad range of integrated formulation and analytical services to solve difficult development and manufacturing challenges.

The Associate Scientist I, Analytical Research & Development supports evaluation and testing of raw materials, excipients, APIs, in-process, and finished product samples. Once trained, the Associate Scientist I, Analytical Research & Development will independently test raw materials to both compendial and non-compendial methods.

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 Role

• Support analytical scientists to complete milestones for development programs.

• Perform compendial and non-compendial testing on raw materials, drug substances, in-process samples, cleaning samples and finished products as required.

• Prepares chemistry reagents, standards, media, and mobile phase as needed for analyses. Required to work with potent and teratogenic compounds with proper PPE equipment.

• Disposal of hazardous waste according to environmental regulations and company procedures.

• Tabulation of results of analysis as recorded in notebooks, reports, and logbooks. Assures right-first-time execution of departmental methods and SOPs.

• Supports activities and services necessary to the operations of the department, as assigned.

• Supports material evaluation process for new materials. Shares responsibility for the routine calibration / standardization of analytical equipment such as, but not limited to balances, pH meters, KF titrators, AA, IR, UV/VIS, etc.

• Provides project support (wet chemistry and instrumental testing) for new product development.

• Additional duties as assigned.

The Candidate

• Associate in Science (AS) degree in scientific field with 5+ years in an analytical GMP laboratory or Bachelor of Science (BS) in a scientific field.

• Experience with common analytical laboratory equipment: UV/VIS, IR, AA, and Dissolution.

• Knowledge of wet chemistry techniques such as titrations and extractions as per compendia.

• Individual may be required to sit, stand, walk regularly and occasionally lift 0-20 pounds.

• Working with potential hazards will require wearing proper personal protective equipment.

Why You Should Join 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.

Catalent is committed to the health and safety of its employees, visitors and the customers and patients we serve. As a result of the global pandemic, we have modified many of our recruitment and on-boarding processes to maintain everyone’s safety. The Human Resources teams will communicate all necessary safety processes and procedures throughout each stage.

personal initiative. dynamic pace. meaningful work.

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

If you require reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process due to a disability, you may submit your request by sending an email, and confirming your request for an accommodation and include the job number, title and location to DisabilityAccommodations@catalent.com . This option is reserved for individuals who require accommodation due to a disability. Information received will be processed by a U.S. Catalent employee and then routed to a local recruiter who will provide assistance to ensure appropriate consideration in the application or hiring process.

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