Laboratory Scientist/Engineer 2
About the role
FUJIFILM Biotechnologies is building the future of bioproduction in Holly Springs, North Carolina. By end of 2025, we’ll open North America’s largest end-to-end CDMO biopharmaceutical manufacturing facility, offering drug substance production, fill-finish, and packaging under one roof. We’re looking for passionate, mission-driven people to help us realize this exciting vision and deliver the next vaccine, cure, or therapy. We offer a dynamic work environment and we’re proud to cultivate a culture that will fuel your purpose, energy, and drive—what we call Genki. Ready to shape the future of medicine? Let’s transform healthcare together! Holly Springs, North Carolina, combines small-town warmth with proximity to Raleigh’s thriving tech scene, making it the perfect blend of community and opportunity. Fujifilm is globally headquartered in Tokyo with over 70,000 employees across four key business segments of healthcare, electronics, business innovation, and imaging. We are guided and united by our Group Purpose of “giving our world more smiles.” Visit: https://www.fujifilm.com/us/en/about/region/careers
Responsibilities
- Plans, executes, and troubleshoots upstream mammalian cell culture studies in bench-top bioreactors (e.g., Sartorius BIOSTAT), including seed trains, media/buffer prep, inoculations, daily sampling, and aseptic manipulations in biosafety cabinets
- Performs downstream purification operations: column chromatography (e.g., ProA, IEX, HIC), column packing, skid setup, and method execution (e.g., ÄKTA/UNICORN), in-process pooling, and UF/DF by tangential flow filtration (TFF) systems with appropriate membranes
- Executes harvest operations (centrifugation/filtration), clarification, virus inactivation/filtration (as applicable to process design), and final formulation at bench scale
- Generates data packages that enable scale-up and tech transfer to clinical and commercial manufacturing
- Collects customer support samples from the GMP