FUTURE LEADER GRADUATE PROGRAM - NEW STERILIZATION TECHNOLOGIES HF

Job description

Baxter touches millions of lives every day. Our products and services are essential building blocks of healthcare.
You’ll find Baxter’s products and therapies on nearly every floor, in every department, in almost every hospital worldwide. You’ll find us in clinics and in the home. Patients and providers rely on Baxter for lifesaving renal and medical products, including intravenous (IV) solutions, systems and administrative sets, IV infusion parenteral nutrition, perioperative care, pharmacy devices and software, acute renal care, and home and in-center dialysis.
Our mission to save and sustain lives inspires our work and our commitment to expanding access to care, providing cost-effective healthcare solutions, delivering quality products and advancing innovations for the world.
Our commitment to our mission means we are there when patients and healthcare professionals need us, during the critical moments that matter most.
THE TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM:
The TDP provides an excellent opportunity for talented graduates to kick-start their career within the Global Science and Technology (GST) organization at Baxter.
The TDP member will have the opportunity to rotate across different functions such as:
Electromechanical Device R&D
Pharmaceutical and Drug R&D
Project Management for R&D
Manufacturing
Regulatory Affairs
Quality
And will have the chance to work in 2 to 3 sites within the EMEA region, including:
Braine l’Alleud, Belgium (R&D center)
Hechingen, Germany (Dialyser R&D Center)
Medolla, Italy (Device Engineering R&D Center)
Lund, Sweden (Device Engineering R&D Center)
Malta (Disposables R&D Center)
SUMMARY:
This position is for TDP role in BAP, which would evaluate new sterilization technologies, especially for heat sensitive products like Nutrition. The TDP could make several rotations of 6-9 months around this topic in different departments involved in this project (formulation, process, manufacturing, sterility assurance..)
THE ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSABILITIES:
- Support tech scouting of sterilization technologies currently available on the market
- Participate to the evaluation & selection process of those technologies
- Participate / support / organize the productions of feasibility and development batches of different formulations to evaluate those technologies
- Use current physical, chemical and physicochemical techniques (pH, color, visual inspection, HPLC, UPLC) to evaluate critical parameters
- Participate actively to the innovation process to generate new ideas
- Document results in laboratory notebooks according to established GDP procedures.
It will also be required to:
- Interpret experimental data and present conclusions using statistical analysis
- Write comprehensive protocols and reports in English.
- Adhere to the quality system requirements and ensure GMP and GDP standards; also adhere to general and specific environmental, health and safety (EHS) guidelines..
PROFILE:
- Hold a degree of Master in Sciences (University) in Chemistry, Industrial Chemistry, Industrial Engineering (preferably chemically oriented), Bio-engineering.
- Preferably 1 to 2 years of relevant experience in industry.
- Experience in formulation and/or process development would be an asset
- Knowledge of microbiology and industrial sterilization technologies would be an asset.
- Some knowledge of chemistry and analytical techniques (physico-chemistry and chromatography, HPLC) would be ab asset
- Ability to perform mathematic modeling would be a plus
- Have good creativity thinking skills
- Have good communication skills and be able to use critical thinking.
- Have a proven ability to work independently and be able to work in a team.
- Very good knowledge of written and spoken English