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2025 University Recruiting - 3DT Materials Co-op

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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


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 by:

A) Building 3D printers
  • Build prosumer grade 3D printers to expand our fleet, such as a Voron or Ratrig
  • Qualify new printers into service and help outline processing conditions to ensure equipment meets minimum quality controls (primarily FDM and Resin Vat)


B) Repair, upgrade or up-knowledge existing printers
  • Identify root cause of print failures across a fleet through systematic analysis
  • Perform upgrades or process improvement to improve speed, reliability and versatility
  • 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


C) 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 or wetted path components for bioprocessing


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 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 6 months in Apr2025 - Sep2025


Preferred Experience and Skills:
  • Knowledge of some of the following: optical microscopy, hardness testing, and tensile testing
  • Hands-on experience with 3D printers
  • 3D CAD
  • Good documentation skills


Employees working in roles that the Company determines require routine collaboration with external stakeholders, such as customer-facing commercial, or research-based roles, will be expected to comply not only with Company policy but also with policies established by such external stakeholders (for example, a requirement to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to access a facility or meet with stakeholders). Please understand that, as permitted by applicable law, if you have not been vaccinated against COVID-19 and an essential function of your job is to call on external stakeholders who require vaccination to enter their premises or engage in face-to-face meetings, then your employment may pose an undue burden to business operations, in which case you may not be offered employment, or your employment could be terminated. Please also note that, where permitted by applicable law, the Company reserves the right to require COVID-19 vaccinations for positions, such as in Global Employee Health, where the Company determines in its discretion that the nature of the role presents an increased risk of disease transmission.

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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. Please click here if you need an accommodation during the application or hiring process.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. For more information about personal rights under the U.S. Equal Opportunity Employment laws, visit:

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We are proud to be a company that embraces the value of bringing diverse, talented, and committed people together. The fastest way to breakthrough innovation is when diverse ideas come together in an inclusive environment. We encourage our colleagues to respectfully challenge one another's thinking and approach problems collectively.

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U.S. Hybrid Work Model

Effective September 5, 2023, employees in office-based positions in the U.S. will be working a Hybrid work consisting of three total days on-site per week, generally Tuesday, Wednesday and either Monday or Thursday, although the specific days may vary by site or organization, with Friday designated as a remote-working day, unless business critical tasks require an on-site presence. This Hybrid work model does not apply to, and daily in-person attendance is required for, field-based positions; facility-based, manufacturing-based, or research-based positions where the work to be performed is located at a Company site; positions covered by a collective-bargaining agreement (unless the agreement provides for hybrid work); or any other position for which the Company has determined the job requirements cannot be reasonably met working remotely. Please note, this Hybrid work model guidance also does not apply to roles that have been designated as "remote".

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Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA, also known as Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, Rahway, NJ, USA, does not accept unsolicited assistance from search firms for employment opportunities. All CVs / resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at our company without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of our company. No fee will be paid in the event a candidate is hired by our company as a result of an agency referral where no pre-existing agreement is in place. Where agency agreements are in place, introductions are position specific. Please, no phone calls or emails.

Employee Status:
Intern/Co-op (Fixed Term)

Relocation:
No relocation

VISA Sponsorship:
No

Travel Requirements:
No Travel Required

Flexible Work Arrangements:
Not Applicable

Shift:
1st - Day

Valid Driving License:
Yes

Hazardous Material(s):
N/A

Job Posting End Date:
11/15/2024
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Requisition ID:R306070
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