Microbiologist

Oakwood Laboratories Quality Control Microbiology Department is searching for a Microbiologist.

Oakwood Labs is a privately owned specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the design, development, and commercial manufacture of sterile injectable sustained-release microsphere products. This unique class of medications delivers therapeutic levels of drug to patients over days, weeks, months, or a year with a single intramuscular or subcutaneous injection. Products of this class have extremely high commercial potential. We offer a competitive benefits and salary package.

Under the direct supervision of the Microbiology Laboratory management the Microbiologist is responsible for:

• Environmental monitoring of ISO classified rooms and personnel monitoring (gown and glove sites).
  • Must be able to pass gown certification requirements to access the aseptic core.
• Microbiology testing of utility systems (compressed gas and water systems).
• Testing:
  • Raw Materials (bioburden by membrane filtration and/or plate count method),
  • Drug Product samples (IP/PF bioburden by membrane filtration and/or plate count method, bacterial endotoxin kinetic chromogenic method),
  • Stability samples (bacterial endotoxin kinetic chromogenic method.

We are seeking individuals with:

• Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree in Microbiology or Biological Science and/or at least Bachelor of Arts (B. A.) degree in Life Science with a minimum of two years of experience in a GMP laboratory environment or equivalent
• Experience with sterile aseptic techniques for laboratory and clean room practices
• Microbiology testing knowledge (membrane filtration and plate count methods)
• Prior experience using Microsoft Word and Excel
• GMP and/or GLP training is preferred.
• Remain current with regulatory requirements and emerging industry trends.