PAS Separation Spring Co-op - Johnson and Johnson

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/.

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine, a division of Johnson & Johnson's Family of Companies, is recruiting for a 2025 Spring Co-OP to implement automated analytics for excipient/impurity analysis. This position will be located in Malvern, PA.

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine is the pharmaceutical company of Johnson & Johnson, and you can count on us to keep working diligently to make that future a reality for patients everywhere, by fighting sickness with science, improving access with ingenuity, and healing hopelessness with heart. We focus on areas of medicine where we can make the biggest difference: Cardiovascular & Metabolism, Immunology, Infectious Diseases & Vaccines, Neuroscience, Oncology, and Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension. We never stop working toward a future where disease is a thing of the past.

Within Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine, Therapeutics Development & Supply (TDS) organization is responsible for the development, clinical supply, marketed product support, and life cycle management of Biotherapeutics. Within TDS, the Analytical Development, Process Analytical Science (AD-PAS) group supports routine sample testing, method development, and validation, for product development and characterization.

The AD-PAS team is recruiting for a Co-OP to collaborate in migrating analytical assays from manual processes to fully automated end-to-end workflows. In this role, you will collaborate with Assay Development SMEs, and end-users to increase sample testing efficiency and/or reduce hands-on time, time-to-result, and assay variability. The primary scientific area of focus will be excipient/impurity assays, implementing automated analytical workflows such as TECAN automated liquid handler, and chromatography, programming/operating the TECAN, and performing routine testing of manually/automated prepared samples.
Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with cross-functional team to design, develop, and deploy TECAN script to prepare samples for excipient/impurity tests.
• Operate/troubleshoot the TECAN liquid handler to prepare samples for excipient/impurity tests.
• Manually prepare samples for excipient/impurity tests.
• Compare results between automated and manually prepared sample preparations.
• Optimize existing automated solutions to provide new functionality.
• Ensure data integrity through accurate and timely data capture/entry into appropriate electronic systems.

Education:

• Candidates must be actively enrolled in an accredited University for the duration of a co-op assignment pursuing a bachelor's program in Chemistry, Chemistry Engineering, Biochemistry, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, Analytical Chemistry.
• A minimum GPA of 3.0 is required
• Completion of Undergraduate Freshmen year at an accredited University is required

Experience and Skills:

Required:

• Ability to demonstrate strong analytical and quantitative skills
• Excellent communication, presentation, and leadership skills
• Ability to balance multiple projects and initiatives while getting results
• Self-starter who works independently while contributing to the team goals
• Shown leadership/participation in campus programs and/or community service activities

Preferred:

• Experience with various programming languages, such as C#, Python, Visual Basic, C
• Experience with analytical method development
• Proficient in analyzing data in Excel
• Experience with automation software packages such as Hamilton Venus or Tecan Fluent Control

Johnson & Johnson is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.