Specialist Engineering

MSD; North Carolina; On-site; USD 87,000 - 137,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

401(k) plan

Job summary

MSD, located in Durham, NC, seeks a Growth and Improvement-minded Specialist, Engineering to support thaw, pool, and filling manufacturing areas within Technical Operations.

The role emphasizes data-driven decision making, technical problem solving, and lifecycle improvement, with a focus on quality and regulatory compliance in a GMP environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Engineering or related field with 2 years in pharmaceutical operations, technical services, or quality operations.
• Experience in a GMP pharmaceutical environment and demonstrated leadership and teamwork skills.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Operations, Quality, and other support groups to meet manufacturing and compliance initiatives within an Integrated Product Team.
• Provide technical assistance for thawing, pooling, and filling equipment issues in-line.
• Lead root cause investigations for equipment-related quality events.
• Prepare technical documents and change control proposals with literature support and data analysis.
• Support quality, regulatory activities including site inspections and NDA supplements.

Skills

Leadership

Problem solving

Data analysis

Project management

GMP

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Tools

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Job description

Job Description

We are seeking a Growth and Improvement-minded Specialist, Engineering that can help drive our Strategic Operating Priorities. Invent | Pursue the Most Promising Internal and External Science to Address Significant Unmet Medical Needs. Execute | Prioritize Resources Behind Our Key Growth Drivers (Oncology, Vaccines, Select Specialty Areas, Animal Health) While Optimizing Our Base Business). Adapt | Develop Our People, Culture and Business Model to Evolve with a Dynamic Landscape. Diverse Talent | We are committed to providing an inclusive and welcoming environment with supporting leadership behaviors because having a high performing, engaged workforce is critical to our ability to deliver innovative solutions to patients and customers around the world. Values and Standards | Our Steadfast Commitment to Our Values and Standards will Continue to Guide Us as We Take on New Challenges. The Specialist, Engineering will serve as a member of the Technical Operations team supporting thaw, pool, and filling manufacturing areas. The Specialist, Engineering is expected to collect and interpret information, to develop solutions and to make decisions with high liability to projects of varying scopes. Very minimal supervision, guidance, and direction are employed by the Associate Director, however, periodic checks and reports are required to review soundness of technical judgment and the status/schedule of the effort.

Responsibilities

• This role will collaborate with Operations, Quality, and other support groups to meet targeted manufacturing and compliance initiatives within an Integrated Product Team, and to execute and support key projects for the business including continuous improvement changes and strategic production initiatives.
• Provides technical assistance to manufacturing operations in the resolution of thawing/pooling/filling equipment problems for in-line products.
• This involves leading root cause analysis investigations for equipment-related quality events.
• Provides written scientific justification for proposed changes by conducting literature search, designing and executing experiments, analytically reviewing current and past data, and demonstrating the impact of process changes on product quality, production efficiency, or productivity.
• Provides technical assistance for quality and regulatory activities including site inspections, preparation of technical documents for NDA supplements, FDA observation, and environmental process issues.
• Responsible for the accuracy of Process Descriptions and Critical Process Parameter Memos.
• This requires a thorough knowledge of the Drug Product operations, the hazards involved, and the in-process controls necessary to obtain reproducible results.
• Responsible for completing all process engineering/process development activities with the highest regard for all of our Company Divisional policies and Durham site procedure for safety, quality, and regulatory compliance.
• Review literature pertaining to pharmaceutical aseptic filling and lyophilization in order to introduce new profitable/productivity ideas into the Drug Product operation.
• Provide technical support for the design, machinability evaluation, process performance qualification and qualification of new or modified equipment components.
• Supports on shift support during critical manufacturing runs such as Aseptic Process Simulation, protocol execution, and developmental runs.
• Responsible for authoring process change controls and completing tasks to implement Drug Product equipment/process changes.

Qualifications

• Minimum Requirement: Bachelor of Science Degree (BS) in Engineering or related fields with two (2) years’ experience in pharmaceutical operations, technical services, or quality operations;
• Minimum of 2 years relevant industrial experience.
• Experience working in a GMP Pharmaceutical Environment.
• Demonstrated leadership and teamwork skills.
• Proven communication skills.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Mechanical aptitude to troubleshoot/resolve equipment issues.

Preferred Experience and Skills

• Experience in deviation management and/or change control and/or equipment support and/or project support role.
• Experience in pharmaceutical industry.
• Project management skills.
• Experience in writing process change controls.
• Experience in the use of Lean Six Sigma tools.

Required Skills

• Adaptability
• Adaptability
• Change Control Management
• Change Controls
• Collaborative Leadership
• Competency Management
• Data Analysis
• Equipment Designing
• Equipment Troubleshooting
• Evaluate Information
• Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP)
• Leadership Theories
• Lean Manufacturing
• Operations Engineering
• Organizational Leadership
• Personal Initiative
• Procedure Writing
• Process Definition
• Process Optimization
• Product Analysis
• Professional Integrity
• Project Implementations
• Project Leadership
• Project Management
• Project Scoping {+ 9 more}

Eligibility and Equal Opportunity

US and Puerto Rico Residents Only: Our company is committed to inclusion, ensuring that candidates can engage in a hiring process that exhibits their true capabilities. As an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer, we provide equal opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. As a federal contractor, we comply with all affirmative action requirements for protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. For more information about personal rights under the U.S. Equal Opportunity Employment laws, visit: EEOC Know Your Rights EEOC GINA Supplement

Company Culture

We are proud to be a company that embraces the value of bringing together, talented, and committed people with diverse experiences, perspectives, skills and backgrounds. The fastest way to breakthrough innovation is when people with diverse ideas, broad experiences, backgrounds, and skills come together in an inclusive environment. We encourage our colleagues to respectfully challenge one another’s thinking and approach problems collectively. Learn more about your rights, including under California, Colorado and other US State Acts

Location and Salary

The primary location for this posting is: USA - North Carolina - Durham (Old Oxford). Where required by law, the compensation range for this role is provided below. The salary range for the primary location of this role is: $87,300.00 - $137,400.00 This range reflects the Company's reasonable expectation of the base salary applicable to this role at the time of posting. An employee’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, government requirements, and business or organizational needs.

Additional location(s): Please note the salary range above applies to the Primary Location of the position. Where a role has other listed locations, different compensation guidelines may apply. You may find the salary ranges for additional locations below. If the salary range is not listed for the location you are applying to, our Talent Acquisition team will provide further information to you relevant to your location.

San Francisco Residents Only: We will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records for employment in compliance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

Los Angeles Residents Only: We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance.

Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA, also known as Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, Rahway, NJ, USA, does not accept unsolicited assistance from search firms for employment opportunities. All CVs / resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at our company without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of our company. No fee will be paid in the event a candidate is hired by our company as a result of an agency referral where no pre-existing agreement is in place. Where agency agreements are in place, introductions are position specific. Please, no phone calls or emails.

Employment Details

• Employee Status: Regular
• Relocation: No relocation
• VISA Sponsorship: No
• Travel Requirements: 10%
• Flexible Work Arrangements: Not Applicable
• Shift: 1st - Day
• Valid Driving License: No
• Hazardous Material(s): NA

Job Posting End Date: 10/21/2026 *A job posting is effective until 11:59:59PM on the day BEFORE the listed job posting end date. Please ensure you apply to a job posting no later than the day BEFORE the job posting end date.

Benefits

• Available benefits include medical, dental, vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, including 401(k), paid holidays, vacation, and compassionate and sick days.
• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits.

More information about benefits is available at https://jobs.merck.com/us/en/compensation-and-benefits.

Company Statement

Our company is a global health care leader with a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines and animal health products. The difference between potential and achievement lies in the spark that fuels innovation and inventiveness; this is the space where we have codified our legacy for over a century. Our success is backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare.