• You have completed a university or higher professional education, (e.g. pharmaceutical technology, food science and technology, chemical technology, applied physics).
• You have preferably has experience of production processes in the pharmaceutical industry, the food industry or in chemical technology.
• You are capable of ongoing identification of improvement potential.
• You are a team player with communication skills.
• You have excellent oral and written skills in English.
• You have experience in a number of unit operations for the production of oral administration forms: high shear granulation, fluid bed granulation, roller compaction, tabletting, dry mixing of powders, spray drying.
• you are willing to travel intermittently.

Department/work environment

The Development Center Oss (DCO) in the Netherlands is part of the R&D organization of Merck Research Laboratories (MRL). The PSCS (Pharmaceutical Sciences & Clinical Supplies) department employs approximately 100 specialists, who develop pharmaceutical dosage forms in an environment where they are free to develop creative solutions on their own or as part of a team.
The Pharmaceutical Sciences department develops new forms of administering existing medicines using advanced technologies for formulating, producing and analyzing these products.
Some 100 highly trained scientists from varied backgrounds work in this innovative and inspiring department.
You devise, set up and conduct experiments, independently or in a team. You investigate what effects specific physical properties have on the process and the products. You develop a process that can be scaled up and is transferable. The position combines practical experimental work with reporting work (~40%). You work with colleagues in multidisciplinary project teams to develop products. Projects last on average 2 to 3 years. All reporting is done in English.

• Developing oral (combination) products and/or processes for emerging markets.
• Designing, conducting and reporting on experiments, independently or in a team.
• Knowledge of the effects of physical properties of base materials on process and product.
• Thorough knowledge of scale-up and transferring production processes.
• Working in project teams.
• Keeping up-to-date on specialist literature.
• Writing research reports in English.
• Presenting and detailing proposals.
• Preparing and reporting on analyses

MSD

MSD is working to help the world be well. Through our medicines, vaccines, biologic therapies, and consumer and animal products, we work with customers and operate in more than 140 countries to deliver innovative health solutions. We also demonstrate our commitment to increasing access to health care through far-reaching programs that donate and deliver our products to the people who need them.
MSD is the name of Merck outside the US and Canada. MSD has a workforce of over 6,000 in the Netherlands at five different sites.

MSD is the largest pharmaceutical company in the Netherlands. It has large production facilities for Human Health and Animal Health in Oss, Haarlem and Boxmeer and R&D facilities in Boxmeer and Oss.
The MSD Development Center in Oss (DCO) supports MSD’s need for product development activities, particularly for the emerging markets. The DCO is also involved in Product Value Enhancement and it supports MSD’s early phase clinical research in multiple therapeutic areas.