Senior Specialist - Upstream Operations Technician

Role Summary

Senior Specialist - Upstream Operations Technician. The Upstream OpTech is technical process leader on the Upstream operations team responsible for manufacturing execution, changeover, and production control. The role is dedicated to the execution and oversight of cellular expansion from benchtop through production bioreactor processes.

Responsibilities

• Executes the operation with team serving as process lead, coach, trainer, and responsible party.
• Performs and verifies maintenance, process setup, troubleshooting, change over, process intervention.
• Serve as the operations representative and subject matter expert for cross-functional process support team.
• Real-time problem solving, process intervention, and technical experiment delivery, and continuous improvement.
• Ensure process documentation is prepared and completed with accuracy and concurrence.

Qualifications

• Required: Education — High School Diploma / GED
• Required: Experience — minimum of 3 years experience with cellular growth/expansion processes.
• Preferred: Production scale filtration
• Preferred: Formal Root Cause Investigation training
• Preferred: Fermentation
• Preferred: Proficiency with SAP
• Preferred: GMP manufacturing
• Preferred: Aseptic experience

Education

• High School Diploma / GED

Additional Requirements

• Travel: Minimal
• Location: Elanco Animal Health Elwood, KS
• Shift: 12 hour Day shift 5a-5:15p 2 week rotation (M,T,F,Sa,Su,W,R)
• This role currently operates on an 8-hour shift schedule. Starting in July 2025, the position will transition to the 12-hour shift schedule stated above.
• Please note that weekend work will have a 4% premium and work outside of your shift hours will have 10% premium.
• Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to be employed in the United States. Elanco does not anticipate providing sponsorship for employment visa status.