Manager, QC Chemistry - FUJIFILM Holdings America Corporation

Follow Your Genki to North America's largest, state-of-the-art Life Science Manufacturing Facility & CDMO

The work we do at FDB has never been more important—and we are looking for talented candidates to join us. We are growing our locations, our capabilities, and our teams, and looking for passionate, mission-driven people like you who want to make a real difference in people’s lives. Join FDB and help manufacture the next vaccine, cure, or gene therapy in partnership with some of the most innovative biopharma companies across the globe. We are proud to cultivate a culture that will fuel your passion, energy and drive - what we call Genki.

Join us

We are growing our locations and are investing more than $2 billion into establishing a new large-scale manufacturing site for biopharmaceuticals in the United States to accelerate the growth of our Bio CDMO (Contract and Development Manufacturing Organization) business. This will be the largest end-to-end cell culture CDMO provider in North America.

The new site will offer end-to-end solutions to our customers looking to manufacture biopharmaceuticals in the US. In addition to drug substance manufacture, it will also provide automated fill-finish and assembly, packaging, and labeling services. The new state-of-the-art facility is located in Holly Springs, North Carolina, United States.

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About the Role

The Manager, QC Chemistry is accountable for GMP compliant laboratory operations according to GMP guidelines. This role is responsible for direct management and supervision of the QC Chemistry team performing Chemistry and Chromatography testing for in process, drug substance, drug product and stability testing for the manufacturing of Biologics.

In addition, the QC Chemistry team performs TOC, nitrate, and conductivity testing for Utility Monitoring samples. The Manager, QC Chemistry is responsible for managing day-to-day activities including delivering on-time results for methods including: compendial, chromatography, spectroscopy, protein concentration, chemical analysis of stability samples, glycan analysis and wet lab chemistry.

This role provides managerial support for troubleshooting of complex investigations and optimizing laboratory systems. The position ensures the laboratory is maintained in a state of GMP compliance, all documentation is in accordance with GMP, and all reported results are accurate.

The Manager, QC Chemistry is the technical subject matter expert (SME), represents the QC Chemistry team during regulatory and customer audits, and models leadership competencies and aid in the development of QC team members. The QC Chemistry team is responsible for executing the following analytical methods:
chromatography (GC, HPLC, UPLC, SEC), spectroscopy (MS, GC/MS, LC-MS/MS, UV, UV-Vis, FTIR), electrophoresis (GE, non-reducing and reducing CE-SDS, imaged capillary isoelectric focusing (icIEF)), wet chemistry, glycan analysis, sub-visible particle analysis, peptide mapping, and physical appearance.

What You'll Do

Minimum Requirements:

Preferred Requirements:

WORKING CONDITIONS & PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Ability to stand for prolonged periods of time up to 120 minutes
• Ability to sit for prolonged periods of time up to 240 minutes
• Ability to conduct activities using repetitive motions that include writs, hands and/or fingers.
• Ability to operate machinery and/or power tools
• Ability to conduct work that includes moving objects up to 33 pounds
• Ability to bend, push or pull, reach to retrieve materials from 18” to 60” in height and use twisting motions.
• Ability to work in environments between -20 and -70 C for a few minutes with appropriate PPE
• Will work in heights greater than 4 feet

FDBN is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identify or any other protected class. If an accommodation to the application process is needed, please email 

To all agencies: Please, no phone calls or emails to any employee of FUJIFILM about this requisition. All resumes submitted by search firms/employment agencies to any employee at FUJIFILM via-email, the internet or in any form and/or method will be deemed the sole property of FUJIFILM, unless such search firms/employment agencies were engaged by FUJIFILM for this requisition and a valid agreement with FUJIFILM is in place. In the event a candidate who was submitted outside of the FUJIFILM agency engagement process is hired, no fee or payment of any kind will be paid.