2027 Future Talent Program Manufacturing Science and Technology Intern

AISES; West Point (PA); On-site; USD 28,000 - 41,000; Full time

Job summary

AISES invites you to join the Summer Talent Program in our Manufacturing Science and Technology (MS&T) Division for a 12-week internship starting late May or early June 2027. You will work on one or more projects designed to develop technical and professional skills while exploring our company culture.

Interns will contribute to process development, analytical methods, and collaboration with operations and quality groups.

Qualifications

• Currently pursuing a bachelor's or master's degree in engineering, science, or related disciplines. No prior experience is required.

Responsibilities

• Integrate with project teams and expand laboratory experience and skills through hands-on participation.
• Apply engineering, chemistry, and pharmaceutics principles to characterize and scale-up bench or pilot-scale processes to bring therapies to production.
• Develop, optimize, and implement innovative lab and manufacturing technologies and analytical methods.
• Use process modeling with statistical, data analytics, and data science tools to analyze process information and identify insights.
• Support process technology development and transfer to commercial operation groups.
• Collaborate with operations and quality groups on strategic projects to ensure process performance and supply for commercial products.
• Examine issues from diverse perspectives to understand root causes and resolve them.
• Support product transfers within internal and external manufacturing networks.

Skills

Lab experience

Teamwork

Problem-solving

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in engineering or science

Job description

The Future Talent Program features internships that last up to 12 weeks and will include one or more projects. These opportunities in our MS&T Division can provide you with great development and a chance to see if we are the right company for your long-term goals.

Our company’s vision is to make a difference in the lives of people globally through our innovative medicines, vaccines. We are committed to being the premier, research-intensive biopharmaceutical company providing leading innovations and solutions for today and the future. Our core areas of focus include infectious diseases, oncology, and vaccines.

Manufacturing Science and Technology (MS&T) is seeking interns to join us for summer 2027. MS&T represents a collection of primarily lab based product commercialization departments and above site technical operations groups spanning large and small molecule organizations within the Manufacturing Division. A Safety First, Quality Always mindset, drive for continuous improvement, and innovations enable our company to be a trusted and competitive supplier of large molecule biologics and vaccines as well as small molecule pharmaceutical products to the world’s patients and customers.

Each MS&T intern will complete one or more projects over a 12 week period beginning in late May or early June 2027. This experience will provide you the opportunity to develop both technically and professionally, engage in the Company’s business and culture, and decide if we are the right company for your long-term career goals.

As an intern in MS&T, you will have the opportunity to work collaboratively in one of the following areas:

PROCESS & ANALYTICAL DEVELOPMENT AND COMMERCIALIZATION

• Integrate with project teams and expand laboratory experience and skills through hands-on participation.
• Participate in bringing chemically or biologically derived therapies to production by applying engineering, chemistry, and pharmaceutics principles to characterize and scale-up bench or pilot-scale processes.
• Develop, optimize, and implement innovative lab and manufacturing technologies and analytical methods.
• Use process modeling combined with statistical, data analytics, and data science tools to analyze and identify insights from process information.
• Support process technology development and transfer to commercial operation groups.

IN-LINE PRODUCT SUPPORT

• Collaborate with operations and quality groups on the execution of strategic projects to ensure a high level of process performance and enhance world class supply for commercial products.
• Examine an issue from diverse perspectives (safety, compliance, automation, equipment, process, and people) to best understand and resolve the root cause.
• Support the transfer of products within the Company’s internal and external manufacturing network and ensure proper knowledge management.

Education:

Currently pursuing a bachelor's or master's degree in engineering, science, or related disciplines. No prior experience is required.

Required:

• Available for a 12 week internship beginning in late May or early June 2027
• Primarily seeking candidates graduating between Winter 2027 and Spring 2028

Preferred:

• Key preferred experience / interest: Performing lab-based research / process development as well as knowledge and basic understanding of the unit operations common in large molecule / small molecule drug substance or drug product processes (e.g. filtration, lyophilization, chromatography, reactions, tableting, fermentation, etc.)
• Ability to work independently and in teams
• Effective problem-solving, collaboration, and written and oral communication skills
• Strong technical competency and a desire to innovate
• Experience in statistical design and analysis tools, computer programming, modeling, data science, and/or data analytics

Please note that this position may be closed before the posted end date or may remain open longer, at the discretion of the company.