Lab Assistant (Intern), Laboratory Operations

Catalent; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 25,000 - 30,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

On-site Fitness Center

Diversity & Inclusion ERGs

Competitive pay

Job summary

Catalent is offering a part-time, paid student internship at our San Diego facility. This on-site role supports the preparation and cleaning of laboratory glassware and the organization of supplies within GMP-compliant practices.

Ideal candidates are currently enrolled students pursuing an Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree in a scientific field, with laboratory experience preferred and a commitment to 15-20 hours per week, Monday through Friday, 7am–3:30pm. Housing/relocation not provided.

Qualifications

• Must currently be a part-time or full-time college student working to obtain an Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree in a Scientific Field (Chemistry, Biology, Biochemistry preferred).
• Experience in a laboratory preferred.
• Availability to work 15-20 hours per week on-site during the hours of 7am-3:30pm, Monday-Friday (no exceptions).

Responsibilities

• Support collection and organization of laboratory glassware prior to cleaning.
• Prepare solutions for laboratory glassware cleaning.
• Participate in laboratory glassware cleaning.
• Restocking laboratory glassware.
• Ensuring storage and work areas are clean.
• Learn and comply with all GMP practices in use at Catalent.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

Attention to detail

Laboratory experience

Scientific field study

Education

Associate or Bachelor degree in a scientific field

Job description

• Work Schedule: Part-time (15-20/hours per week) Monday-Friday between 7 AM - 3:30 PM

Position Summary

• Work Schedule: Part-time (15-20/hours per week) Monday-Friday between 7 AM - 3:30 PM
• 100% on-site (San Diego)

Catalent, Inc. is a leading global Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO), and Catalent’s San Diego facility focuses on early-stage development of small molecule and peptide drug candidates from the bench to the clinic. This facility offers an array of services that support oral and injectable dosage forms that include preformulation testing, formulation and analytical development, cGMP manufacturing and clinical packaging, labeling, and worldwide distribution. Our San Diego location is the home of our Catalent Spray Drying technologies with downstream roller compaction capabilities to support the needs of our client’s most challenging compounds.

Catalent 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 about formulation development of drug products, including but not limited to tableting, solutions, suspensions, encapsulation, and spray drying. In addition, Assistants will have the opportunity to learn the analytical chemistry techniques used to characterize active pharmaceutical ingredients and formulations such as: pH, density, powder X-ray diffraction, thermal analysis, microscopy, and dissolution testing.

If you are a UC San Diego student and are hired, you are likely eligible to enroll in the UC San Diego School of Biological Sciences Co-Op Program. In addition to paid work experience at Catalent, you’d gain professional development and science communication training through a UC San Diego course for academic credit. (This is the Co-Op Program link: https://biology.ucsd.edu/education/career/co-op/index.html)

• 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 able to work on-site weekly

The Role

• Support collection and organization of laboratory glassware prior to cleaning
• Prepare solutions for laboratory glassware cleaning
• Participate in laboratory glassware cleaning
• Restocking laboratory glassware
• Ensuring storage and work areas are clean
• Learn and comply with all GMP practices in use at Catalent.
• Other duties as assigned.

The Candidate

• Must currently be a part-time or full-time college student working to obtain an Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree in a Scientific Field (Chemistry, Biology, Biochemistry preferred.)
• Experience in a laboratory preferred
• Ability to conduct routine tasks with attention to detail
• Availability to work 15-20 hours per week on-site during the hours of 7am-3:30pm, Monday-Friday (no exceptions)
• Housing assistance and/or relocation are NOT available for this role
• 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 starting pay for this position in San Diego, CA is $20/hour. The final salary offered to a successful candidate may vary, and will be dependent on several factors that may include but 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, 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.

personal initiative. dynamic pace. meaningful work.

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 [e-mail]. 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.