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A statistical consultant opening at a major Pharmaceutical company manufacturing site

  • 1.  A statistical consultant opening at a major Pharmaceutical company manufacturing site

    Posted 07-17-2013 11:59
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    The opening is to be filled soon. It is in NY/NJ area.

    Responsibilities:

    The person will provide statistical assessments and develop models for drug manufacturing process improvements, process monitoring, and process control purposes; the person will also actively be involved in troubleshooting and process validation activities, which includes adherence to regulatory and GMP requirements

    -         Support process validation and tech transfer activities by setting up DOE and perform statistical analysis of process validation data for proving validity and equivalence.

    -         Evaluate release and stability data to allow internal limit determination and identify sources of significant laboratory bias; evaluate impact of corrective and preventative actions to reduce or eliminate laboratory bias in test results.

    -         Review product assessment reports and to help determine the sampling and testing matrix for the justification and validation batches.

    -         Support analytical methods validation and method transfer by designing analytical robustness test and design required DOE and statistical assessment to ensure method robustness and effectiveness during the validation and transfer

    -         Support new process improvement by determining the new process capabilities and stability.

    -         Develop statistical training modules and give training to the technical staff

    Experiences:

    · MSc. in Statistics, natural science or Chemical Engineering background a plus, at least 7 years of experience as statistician in pharmaceutical processing or analytical testing

    · Deep statistical and mathematical understanding in the field of DoEs and multivariate statistics

    · Experience in the packaging technology for pharmaceutical products preferred

    · Fundamental understanding of standard pharmaceutical analytical testing

    · Strong expertise in tech transfer

    · Experience in the following software: Minitab, JMP, SAS

    · Experience in lean, six sigma, DOE



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    Jie Sheng
    Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation
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