Scientist , Product Development
Listed on 2026-02-10
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Healthcare
Position Summary
Join Catalent’s flagship softgel development and manufacturing facility in St. Petersburg, FL, producing 18 billion capsules annually. This role offers competitive pay, day‑one benefits, and career growth in a state‑of‑the‑art facility, where your work directly impacts patient lives.
Product Development oversees end‑to‑end product creation, including benchtop/lab‑scale work, feasibility batches, registration/stability batches, and technical support for process validation. The team also supports product investigations, technology transfers to the St. Petersburg, FL facility, and conducts Gap Assessments, Risk Assessments, and implementation of PAT solutions. This role plays a critical part in the timely development of new pharmaceutical products using Softgel formulation and process technologies by executing essential formulation and process activities.
The Role- Schedule and conduct lab work to ensure timely completion of the required activities.
- Perform solubility and compatibility studies; prepare laboratory fill mixes and air fill capsules.
- Prepare gel swatches and execute drying studies.
- Perform fill moisture, water activity, hardness, rheology, burst strength, impact/drop testing, disintegration, dissolution, and/or other testing; perform HPLC analysis; prepare buffers, mobile phase and dissolution media.
- Provide experimental details and record the results in approved notebooks, batch records, reports and logbooks; prepare samples for animal PK studies.
- Provide training to new or existing personnel.
- Required to read and execute departmental guidance and SOPs; comply with Health, Safety and Environmental responsibilities for the position.
- Maintain current training records for required procedures.
- May be required to work with highly potent compounds or hormones.
- Other duties as assigned.
- Doctorate in Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chemistry, or related science; or
- MS in Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chemistry, or related science with
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