Pure Culture Technician

At Elanco (NYSE: ELAN) – it all starts with animals!

As a global leader in animal health, we are dedicated to innovation and delivering products and services to prevent and treat disease in farm animals and pets.

We’re driven by our vision of ‘Food and Companionship Enriching Life’ and our approach to sustainability – the Elanco Healthy Purpose™ – to advance the health of animals, people, the planet and our enterprise.

At Elanco, we pride ourselves on fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment.

We believe that diversity is the driving force behind innovation, creativity, and overall business success.

Here, you’ll be part of a company that values and champions new ways of thinking, work with dynamic individuals, and acquire new skills and experiences that will propel your career to new heights.

Making animals’ lives better makes life better – join our team today!

Description:
The main job purpose is to provide operational technical expertise to maintain pure culture within the
Fermentation plant by providing support on a day’s basis and providing critical operational
recommendations to ensure fermentations remain pure culture.

Functions, Duties, Tasks


* Provide Pure Culture oversight for all fermentation operations.


* Evaluate findings from fermenter downtime operations and make go/no go


* recommendations from a pure culture perspective on proceeding to set the fermenter.


* Troubleshoot operational issues relating to pure culture.


* Second person verify critical pure culture operations


* Be a proactive coach across the operations group relating to pure culture and be a good influencer


* Execution of the routine Pure Culture Maintenance Programme eg assisting coil dye tests, header sterilisations, filter integrity testing


* Carry out non-routine sterility work
- Internal vessel inspections, including assisting coil dye tests
- Assist Pure Culture Group with foreign growth investigations carrying out the majority of the equipment testing and inspections.


* Determine best practice for pure culture operations


* Train Optechs in operations that impact pure culture control eg ; leak testing


* Ensure practice versus procedure for operations that impact pure culture.


* Be a part of the pure culture days group to implement improvements to the operations relating to pure culture


* Problem Solving: Use diagnostic and experience skills to assist operations group troubleshooting complex operational and pure culture related issues.

Use of systems eg DeltaV and PI to aid diagnostics.

Assist with investigations into foreign growth runs.


* Documentation: Completion of documentation to cGMP standards without error


* Training: Own ITP, share specialist skills and information gained through experience.


* Assist in development of Optechs learning plans and their implementation.

Devise and


* write training material, train Optechs in p...