Senior Scientist – Poultry Biologics
| Company | Zoetis |
|---|---|
| Location | Kalamazoo, MI, USA |
| Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Master’s, PhD |
| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
Requirements
- PhD in biology, animal science, immunology, vaccinology, bioengineering, or related biotechnology fields with 1-3 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
- 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
- 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
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
- 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
Preferred Qualifications
- 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
- 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)