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Your Role: Manufacturing Scientist

Location: 450 Elanco Circle, Indianapolis, IN 46221 / Global Elanco Headquarters

15-25% domestic travel required for accompany validations, tech-transfers of manufacturing process, deviation investigations, and external site meetings.

Job Description:

Your day-to-day will include:

• Ensure technical oversight of products within Elanco External Manufacturing (EEM)–Americas (North and Latin America) scope.

• Ensure technical excellence and effective supply production across a portfolio of products (specifically medicated feed and nutritional health) produced at external contract manufacturers and suppliers.

• Maintain and improve product process capability, quality, and compliance as well as drive gross margin improvement through a technical productivity agenda are all part of this role.

• Participate in Joint Process Team (JPT) meetings with contract manufacturers and external suppliers as primary technical manufacturing science point of contact.

• Ensure technical requirements of global standards and oversight are met using Change Management, Deviation, and Investigation Management.

• Maintain oversight of key batch processing records used at CMs, including SOP’s, Master Production Records, Standard Packaging Instruction’s.

• Write technical reports to convey status of product performance, capability and to communicate process metrics.

• Act as the technical point of contact and subject matter expert for lifecycle aspects for Elanco External Manufacturing (EEM) managed products.

You have the following technical skills and qualifications:

• Requirement – Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Science, a related field, or a foreign equivalent

• Relevant experience – 5 years of progressively responsible post-baccalaureate experience in job offered or any engineering related job titles. Applicants must possess 5 years of experience in the following: (1) Scientific data collection and documentation (JMP’s – statistical tool); (2) Root Cause Analysis including defining problem statement, data collection and analysis, 5 whys, fish bone diagrams, identifying causal factors & root causes, and DMAIC (Define/measure/Analyze, improve and control) protocol; (3) cGMP and FDA regulations; (4) systematic troubleshooting for manufacturing issues including using statistical tools to define the operating parameters for a manufacturing process and analytical test; (5) analyzing manufacturing process failures; troubleshooting stability failures and raw materials issues (i.e. particle size change); (6) solid dosage processes; and (7) technical writing.

• 15-25% domestic travel required for accompany validations, tech-transfers of manufacturing process, deviation investigations, and external site meetings.

Elanco is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status