2027 Future Talent Program - 3DT Materials & Process Co-op

Job Description The Future Talent Program features Cooperative (Co-op) education that lasts up to 6 months and will include one or more projects. These opportunities in our Global Support Functions Division can provide you with great development and a chance to see if we are the right company for your long-term goals Are you looking for an exciting opportunity with a rapidly growing pharmaceutical manufacturer?

If so, then this is the opportunity for you! We are seeking a Growth and Improvement minded 3D Technologies Coop that can help drive our Strategic Operating Priorities.

Our ability to excel depends on the integrity, knowledge, imagination, skill, diversity and teamwork of an individual like you. To this end, we strive to create an environment of mutual respect, encouragement, and teamwork.

As part of our global team, you’ll have the opportunity to collaborate with talented and dedicated colleagues while developing and expanding your career.

• Invent | Pursue the Most Promising Internal and External Science to Address Significant Unmet Medical Needs • Execute | Prioritize Resources Behind Our Key Growth Drivers (Oncology, Vaccines, Select Specialty Areas, Animal Health) While Optimizing Our Base Business) • Adapt | Develop Our People, Culture and Business Model to Evolve with a Dynamic Landscape • Diverse Talent | We are committed to providing an inclusive and welcoming environment with supporting leadership behaviors because having a high-performing, engaged workforce is critical to our ability to deliver innovative solutions to patients and customers around the world • Values and Standards | Our Steadfast Commitment to Our Values and Standards will Continue to Guide Us as We Take on New Challenges and Will Always be Fundamental to Our Success – They are a Competitive Advantage for Us Summary, Focus and Purpose Our 3D Technologies enterprise team operates as a business partner for raised challenges and problems to propose ideas and innovative solutions that enable new organizational capabilities.

Our mission statement is to democratize inventing and make it easy and accessible to anyone at our company. Our core DevOps team collaborates internationally across the globe to deliver solutions that help everyone to be more productive and enable innovation, through CAD, 3D printing, and other services.

The 3DT Materials & Process supports our pipeline projects for Quality & Compliance (QC), usually when there are cGMP factors. The propensity for defects is different with 3D printing vs.

other manufacturing techniques, and the challenge in understanding, reducing or eliminating, or designing around, is largely burdened onto the end user.

The QC team aims to learn and up-knowledge our main DevOps team in these constraints and enhance the portfolio of fabrication techniques to support the pharmaceutical business while maintaining GMP compliance.

In this role, the co-op/intern will be primarily focused on QC support, through efforts such as: A) Qualifying new equipment • Qualify new printers or other equipment into service and help outline processing conditions to ensure equipment meets minimum quality controls (e.

g. FDM, SLA, injection molding) • Identify root cause of print failures across a fleet through systematic analysis • Identify and document equipment failures and part defects to improve or expand our Quality Control checks and Go-NoGo inspections and to help train new automated systems B) Continuous improvements and R&D • Identify workflows in lab Dev & Ops and 3D printing production for improvement opportunities • Execute on research to expand our capabilities, such as 3DP for injection molding, 3DP of tablets/pills, or wetted path components for bioprocessing C) Material characterization • Utilize material characterization and imaging equipment (e.

g. micro-CT, izod impact, HDT) to improve understanding of defects and improve processes D) Side gig opportunities • Participate hands-on post-processing techniques to learn practical tips and tricks for assembly, as well as ensuring high quality parts to go into a pharmaceutical cleanroom • Manning a table at outreach events as they present themselves, such as Take Your Child to Work Day • Exposure to and collaboration with different departments and multiple parts of a pharmaceutical processes This role will be a primarily onsite, with an expectation for onsite attendance of 4-5 days per week.

Required Education and Experience: • Candidate must be currently pursuing degree in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related discipline • Candidate must be currently enrolled in an academic program and returning to university following this co-op assignment to complete credit requirements for graduation • Candidate must be available for full time employment for a period of 4-6 months in Apr2027 – Sep2027 Preferred Experience and Skills: • Knowledge of some of the following: x-ray computed tomography (XRCT), optical microscopy, hardness testing, and tensile testing • Hands-on experience with 3D printers (any of: CAD / slicing / printing / fixing printers) • 3D CAD • Good documentation skills • This role will most likely be best suited for a 2nd or 3rd coop cycle Please note that this position may be closed before the posted end date or may remain open longer, at the discretion of the company.

Salary range: The salary range for this role is $39,908 - $111,111 FTP2027 GSF2027 NSBE Required Skills: Assembly Processes, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Clinical Research, Cloud Data Catalog, Conceptualization, Data Analysis, Database Management, Data Science, Data Security, Data Visualization, Data Wrangling, Defects Analysis Preferred Skills: Current Employees apply HERE Current Contingent Workers apply HERE US and Puerto Rico Residents Only: Our company is committed to inclusion, ensuring that candidates can engage in a hiring process that exhibits their true capabilities.

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The fastest way to breakthrough innovation is when people with diverse ideas, broad experiences, backgrounds, and skills come together in an inclusive environment.

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