Job Abstract

Lab Assistant (Intern), Quality Control

Position Summary:

Catalent Pharma Solutions is hiring a Lab Assistant (Intern) for multiple departments, on our San Diego, CA team. Through guided mentorship, the Student Lab Intern program offers students a fun and stimulating environment to gain lab experience and exposure to pharmaceutical chemistry development. Lab Assistants will have the opportunity to learn analytical chemistry techniques such as: volumetric analysis, spectroscopy, and liquid chromatography.

**This is a PART TIME, PAID, YEAR-ROUND student internship, and all students are required to commit 15-20 hours per week (NOTE: bachelor’s degree graduates will not be considered). To be considered for this San Diego-based internship, you must be attending a local college/university**

If you are a UCSD student, you may be eligible for the UC San Diego Division of Biological Sciences Co-Op Program. Please contact Melissa Hoon at mhoon@ucsd.edu for more details regarding the Co-Op program.

Catalent San Diego, Inc. (Formerly Pharmatek Laboratories, Inc.) is a premier pharmaceutical chemistry development and manufacturing organization supporting the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. Catalent San Diego focuses on bringing client drug compounds from discovery to the clinic with services that include analytical development, preformulation testing, formulation development, GMP manufacturing and stability storage and testing. At Catalent San Diego, we recruit and develop exceptional individuals with a passion for science and determination to excel. We offer a technically challenging and stimulating environment and the opportunity to learn from the best. We provide a generous benefits package, on-site gym and fitness programs, team sports, activities and competitive compensation.

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:

• Clean laboratory glassware.
• Perform maintenance on designated laboratory equipment and order supplies.
• Prepare buffers and laboratory reagents.
• Document experiments in a laboratory notebook.
• Assist in experiments under the supervision of a full-time Scientist.
• May also perform routine experiments without supervision.
• Learn and comply with all GMP practices in use at Catalent.
• Other duties as assigned.

The Candidate:

• Must have attained a high school diploma/GED and be currently enrolled in a Bachelor’s degree program in good academic standing with a major in life sciences (Chemistry, Biochemistry, or Biology). Bachelor’s graduates are not eligible for this role and therefore will NOT be considered.
• Completion of Organic Chemistry coursework is required. Prior experience in chemistry and chemistry lab techniques are strongly preferred.
• Candidates should be highly self-motivated, organized, and able to work as part of a team.
• Availability to work 15-20 hours a week during the hours of 8am-5pm, Monday-Friday (no exceptions).
• Housing assistance and/or relocation are NOT available for this role, and local candidates are highly preferred.
• Physical Requirements: On an average day this position requires the ability to walk, sit and stand, use hands to handle or feel, reach with hands and arms at or above shoulder height and below waist height, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; talk and hear, smell and lift up to 25 pounds. Specific vision requirements including reading of written documents, visual inspection of materials and use of computer monitor screen frequently.

Pay:

• The annual pay range for this position in San Diego, CA is $17-20/hour. The final salary offered to a successful candidate may vary, and will be dependent on several factors that may include but are not limited to: the type and length of experience within the job, type and length of experience within the industry, skillset, education, business needs, etc.  Catalent is a multi-state employer, and this salary range may not reflect positions that work in other states.

Why you should join Catalent:

• Awesome employee activities:  Movie Day, Monthly Birthday Celebrations, Friday Bagel Breakfast, On-site Fitness Center with machines, on-site yoga and HIIT classes, Sponsored Sports Teams, and several other company-sponsored events that encourages positive employee comradery, which contributes to effectively building positive employee relationships, overall creating a positive work environment.
• Environmentally friendly green initiatives with on-site practices as well as regularly participating in Beach Clean-up activities for community engagement.
• Several Employee Resource Groups focusing on Diversity and Inclusion.
• Competitive salary/hourly rate offering students an amazing company to add to your resume before graduation with exciting hands-on lab experience.
• Positive and fast-paced working environment focusing on continually improving processes to remain innovative and dynamic.

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.

Notice to Agency and Search Firm Representatives: Catalent Pharma Solutions (Catalent) is not accepting unsolicited resumes from agencies and/or search firms for this job posting. Resumes submitted to any Catalent employee by a third party agency and/or search firm without a valid written & signed search agreement, will become the sole property of Catalent. No fee will be paid if a candidate is hired for this position as a result of an unsolicited agency or search firm referral. Thank you.

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