Fermentation engineer job description
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Fermentation engineer requirements can be divided into technical requirements and required soft skills. The lists below show the most common requirements included in fermentation engineer job postings.
Sample fermentation engineer requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering or related field
- Minimum of 3 years of experience in fermentation process development
- Experience with bioreactor design and operation
- Knowledge of microbial physiology and genetics
- Proficiency in data analysis and statistical modeling
Sample required fermentation engineer soft skills
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
- Ability to work independently and in a team environment
- Strong problem-solving and critical thinking skills
- Flexibility and adaptability to changing priorities and deadlines
- Commitment to quality and attention to detail
Fermentation engineer job description example 1
Ingredion fermentation engineer job description
The Fermentation Engineer will be responsible for development and optimization of fermentation processes for production of biocatalysts.
Core Responsibilities:
Development of new and optimization of existing industrial enzyme fermentation, DSP and formulation processes.Plan and execute enzyme fermentation experimental design (Lab, pilot & industrial scale) ensuring safety, effectiveness and efficiency.Collect, analyze and interpret experimental (Lab, pilot & industrial scale), and actual production data.Communicate with key stakeholders in R&D, engineering, manufacturing, CROs and CMOs. Collaborate with biochemistry and molecular biology team on enzyme of interest characteristics and peculiarities to adapt the most effective and efficient fermentation, DSP and formulation strategy.Involve in manufacturing infrastructure development and upgrade, including unit operation design, in-line process monitoring & automation, data management systems.Collaborate in troubleshooting and lead continuous improvement and new technology implementation initiatives at industrial scale fermentation facilities.Conduct enzyme fermentation experiments safely and effectively against the project goals with a high level of excellence to ensure precise and accurate data. Record and document all stages of R&D work, operate lab information & knowledge management system (ELN etc.).Prepare technical, experimental reports, techno-economic feasibility assessments for communicating work outcomes and future recommendations. Ensure Compliance with laws and internal policies.Other assigned duties and responsibilities.
Qualified candidates will have:
Min. MSc degree (PhD preferrable) in biotechnology, biochemical engineering or related field with 3+ years working experience as Fermentation Engineer or equivalent role Hands-on experience with enzyme production using benchtop fermenters, , microbiological techniques, downstream processes, and statistical tools.Experience with scale-up is a plus.Applied knowledge in microbial physiology, chemistry, enzymology, physics, statistics, fermenter / bioreactor design, process data analytics, control and automation.Understanding of modern molecular biology, strain and enzyme engineering.
Ingredion provides accommodations to job applicants with disabilities throughout the hiring process. If a job applicant requires an accommodation during the application process or through the selection process, we will work with the applicant to meet the job applicant's accommodation needs.
#LI-JG1
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, age, national origin, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, military status, or disability status.
Relocation Available:
Yes, Within Region
Core Responsibilities:
Development of new and optimization of existing industrial enzyme fermentation, DSP and formulation processes.Plan and execute enzyme fermentation experimental design (Lab, pilot & industrial scale) ensuring safety, effectiveness and efficiency.Collect, analyze and interpret experimental (Lab, pilot & industrial scale), and actual production data.Communicate with key stakeholders in R&D, engineering, manufacturing, CROs and CMOs. Collaborate with biochemistry and molecular biology team on enzyme of interest characteristics and peculiarities to adapt the most effective and efficient fermentation, DSP and formulation strategy.Involve in manufacturing infrastructure development and upgrade, including unit operation design, in-line process monitoring & automation, data management systems.Collaborate in troubleshooting and lead continuous improvement and new technology implementation initiatives at industrial scale fermentation facilities.Conduct enzyme fermentation experiments safely and effectively against the project goals with a high level of excellence to ensure precise and accurate data. Record and document all stages of R&D work, operate lab information & knowledge management system (ELN etc.).Prepare technical, experimental reports, techno-economic feasibility assessments for communicating work outcomes and future recommendations. Ensure Compliance with laws and internal policies.Other assigned duties and responsibilities.
Qualified candidates will have:
Min. MSc degree (PhD preferrable) in biotechnology, biochemical engineering or related field with 3+ years working experience as Fermentation Engineer or equivalent role Hands-on experience with enzyme production using benchtop fermenters, , microbiological techniques, downstream processes, and statistical tools.Experience with scale-up is a plus.Applied knowledge in microbial physiology, chemistry, enzymology, physics, statistics, fermenter / bioreactor design, process data analytics, control and automation.Understanding of modern molecular biology, strain and enzyme engineering.
Ingredion provides accommodations to job applicants with disabilities throughout the hiring process. If a job applicant requires an accommodation during the application process or through the selection process, we will work with the applicant to meet the job applicant's accommodation needs.
#LI-JG1
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, age, national origin, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, military status, or disability status.
Relocation Available:
Yes, Within Region
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Fermentation engineer job description example 2
Ginkgo Bioworks fermentation engineer job description
Our mission is to make biology easier to engineer. Ginkgo is constructing, editing, and redesigning the living world in order to answer the globe's growing challenges in health, energy, food, materials, and more. Our bioengineers make use of an in-house automated foundry for designing and building new organisms. Today, our foundry is developing over 40 different organisms to make different products across multiple industries.
To realize our dream of building a next-generation organism company, each of these organisms needs to be deployed to customers. We are seeking a Senior Fermentation Engineer who is excited to tackle the ambitious challenge of transitioning multiple organisms, with a focus on various filamentous fungi, from microtiter plates, to bench-scale fermentation through scale up and commercial scale manufacturing of ingredients with our customers.
With your strong passion for microbial fermentation and process development, you'll work hand-in-hand with Ginkgo's organism engineers to verify that Ginkgo organisms perform to spec for customers. Plus, you'll lead the transition of those bioprocesses to customers and/or third party contract manufacturers.
Please note: This position will be located at our Cambridge site. #LI-LS1
ResponsibilitiesDrive development of fermentation processes across multiple Ginkgo organisms, focusing on filamentous fungi at our Cambridge office Work with Ginkgo's high-throughput screening team to map performance in microtiter plates to that in bench-scale fermentation Work with Ginkgo's organism engineers (in Cambridge, Boston, and Netherlands) to close the feedback loop and improve the strain genotype with each fermentation cycle Lead tech transfer of strains and bioprocesses to customers and/or contract manufacturers Contribute to downstream purification processes with Ginkgo's chemical and process engineers
Desired Experience and CapabilitiesPhD with 3+ years relevant industrial experience. BS or MS is also accepted with equivalent years of experience Experience with filamentous fungi is required; Experience with additional microbial hosts a plus Demonstrated success with process development and scale up of a microbial fermentation process for small molecule or enzyme production Expertise in scale down approaches (matching performance in microtiter plates to that in fermentation scale) is a plus
To learn more about Ginkgo, visit www.ginkgobioworks.com/press/ or check out some curated press below:
What is it really like to take your company public via a SPAC? One Boston biotech shares its journey (Fortune)
Ginkgo Bioworks resizes the definition of going big in biotech, raising $2.5B in a record SPAC deal that weighs in with a whopping $15B-plus valuation (Endpoints News)
Ginkgo Bioworks CEO on scaling up Covid-19 testing: ‘If we try, we can win' (CNBC)
Ginkgo raises $70 million to ramp up COVID-19 testing for employers, universities (Boston Globe)
Ginkgo Bioworks Redirects Its Biotech Platform to Coronavirus (Wall Street Journal)
Ginkgo Bioworks Provides Support on Process Optimization to Moderna for COVID-19 Response (PRNewswire)
The Life Factory: Synthetic Organisms From This $1.4 Billion Startup Will Revolutionize Manufacturing (Forbes)
Synthetic Bio Pioneer Ginkgo Raises $290 Million in New Funding (Bloomberg)
Ginkgo Bioworks raises $350 million fund for biotech spinouts (Reuters)
Can This Company Convince You to Love GMOs? (The Atlantic)
We also feel that it's important to point out the obvious here - there's a serious lack of diversity in our industry, and that needs to change. Our goal is to help drive that change. Ginkgo is deeply committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion in all of its practices, especially when it comes to growing our team. Our culture promotes inclusion and embraces how rewarding it is to work with people from all walks of life.
We're developing a powerful biological engineering platform, so we must remain mindful of the many ways our technology can - and will - impact people around the world. We care about how our platform is used, and having a diverse team to build it gives us the best chance that it's something we'll be proud of as it continues to grow. Therefore, it's critical that we incorporate the diverse voices and visions of all those who play a role in the future of biology.
It is the policy of Ginkgo Bioworks to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and employment applicants.
To realize our dream of building a next-generation organism company, each of these organisms needs to be deployed to customers. We are seeking a Senior Fermentation Engineer who is excited to tackle the ambitious challenge of transitioning multiple organisms, with a focus on various filamentous fungi, from microtiter plates, to bench-scale fermentation through scale up and commercial scale manufacturing of ingredients with our customers.
With your strong passion for microbial fermentation and process development, you'll work hand-in-hand with Ginkgo's organism engineers to verify that Ginkgo organisms perform to spec for customers. Plus, you'll lead the transition of those bioprocesses to customers and/or third party contract manufacturers.
Please note: This position will be located at our Cambridge site. #LI-LS1
ResponsibilitiesDrive development of fermentation processes across multiple Ginkgo organisms, focusing on filamentous fungi at our Cambridge office Work with Ginkgo's high-throughput screening team to map performance in microtiter plates to that in bench-scale fermentation Work with Ginkgo's organism engineers (in Cambridge, Boston, and Netherlands) to close the feedback loop and improve the strain genotype with each fermentation cycle Lead tech transfer of strains and bioprocesses to customers and/or contract manufacturers Contribute to downstream purification processes with Ginkgo's chemical and process engineers
Desired Experience and CapabilitiesPhD with 3+ years relevant industrial experience. BS or MS is also accepted with equivalent years of experience Experience with filamentous fungi is required; Experience with additional microbial hosts a plus Demonstrated success with process development and scale up of a microbial fermentation process for small molecule or enzyme production Expertise in scale down approaches (matching performance in microtiter plates to that in fermentation scale) is a plus
To learn more about Ginkgo, visit www.ginkgobioworks.com/press/ or check out some curated press below:
What is it really like to take your company public via a SPAC? One Boston biotech shares its journey (Fortune)
Ginkgo Bioworks resizes the definition of going big in biotech, raising $2.5B in a record SPAC deal that weighs in with a whopping $15B-plus valuation (Endpoints News)
Ginkgo Bioworks CEO on scaling up Covid-19 testing: ‘If we try, we can win' (CNBC)
Ginkgo raises $70 million to ramp up COVID-19 testing for employers, universities (Boston Globe)
Ginkgo Bioworks Redirects Its Biotech Platform to Coronavirus (Wall Street Journal)
Ginkgo Bioworks Provides Support on Process Optimization to Moderna for COVID-19 Response (PRNewswire)
The Life Factory: Synthetic Organisms From This $1.4 Billion Startup Will Revolutionize Manufacturing (Forbes)
Synthetic Bio Pioneer Ginkgo Raises $290 Million in New Funding (Bloomberg)
Ginkgo Bioworks raises $350 million fund for biotech spinouts (Reuters)
Can This Company Convince You to Love GMOs? (The Atlantic)
We also feel that it's important to point out the obvious here - there's a serious lack of diversity in our industry, and that needs to change. Our goal is to help drive that change. Ginkgo is deeply committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion in all of its practices, especially when it comes to growing our team. Our culture promotes inclusion and embraces how rewarding it is to work with people from all walks of life.
We're developing a powerful biological engineering platform, so we must remain mindful of the many ways our technology can - and will - impact people around the world. We care about how our platform is used, and having a diverse team to build it gives us the best chance that it's something we'll be proud of as it continues to grow. Therefore, it's critical that we incorporate the diverse voices and visions of all those who play a role in the future of biology.
It is the policy of Ginkgo Bioworks to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and employment applicants.
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Fermentation engineer job description example 3
Valent BioSciences fermentation engineer job description
JOB SUMMARY and KEY OBJECTIVES
The purpose of this position is to assist production in meeting all safety, quality, delivery and cost goals set by VBC Management. The individual will have knowledge of fermentation science and biochemical engineering principles, theory and practice with special focus on microbial fermentation operations in an industrial setting or a strong interest in acquiring such skills. The Fermentation Engineer will also act as mentor and leader to Production Specialists and Interns.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
+ Support and comply with all VBC safety and environmental training policies and programs
+ Track and trend yield and quality data for each fermentation batch for all products to identify and eliminate special cause variation and recommend continuous improvement projects
+ Chart, track and analyze other production data to recommend and implement lean manufacturing projects
+ Identify, develop and implement creative practical solutions to improve the economics of the fermentation, recovery and formulation processes
+ Write, update and maintain production master batch records, work instructions and other standard operating procedures and training manuals
+ Proactively identify problems and develop solutions to improve manufacturing operations and safety
+ Review and adjust cost standards/bill of materials
+ Assist production with troubleshooting, drive root cause analysis investigations and implement fail safe solutions as corrective/preventive actions (CAPA)
+ Participate in cost-saving initiatives, and maintain or improve product quality and yield
+ Establish procedures to ensure efficient operation and maintenance of commercial scale fermenters and all related recovery and formulation equipment
+ Provide fermentation, recovery and formulation support to production
+ Advice and train plant operators, production specialists and supervisors
+ Foster a continuous process improvement environment and help implement new technologies
+ Sponsor Capital investments/technical changes
ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES and TASKS
+ Assist in new product development and realization projects
+ Write, review and execute process validation procedures
+ Help conduct experimentation for studying the critical process parameters of fermentation, recovery and formulation processes, recommend and help with the implementation efforts of changes in order to increase the quality and yield and reduce costs and processing times
+ Help develop statistical models of the fermentation, recovery and formulation processes and then help with optimizing the processes and with the implementation of the improved methods
+ Other duties as required
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS and EDUCATION
+ BS in chemical engineering, bioengineering, biotechnology, biochemical engineering, biology, or other related fields is required, M.S. or Ph.D. preferred
+ Hands-on experience with industrial scale microbial fermentation processes or a strong interest in developing such skills is desired
+ Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills
+ Must be able to work independently and as a part of an interdisciplinary, diverse team
+ Good working knowledge of chemical and biochemical process unit operations is a plus
+ Excellent computer skills are desired
+ Working knowledge and understanding of process control and automation is a plus
+ Industrial scale hands-on plant experience with process optimization and Six Sigma experience is a plus
+ Must have flexibility to work some limited off-shift and weekend hours in order to support all production shifts when needed
The purpose of this position is to assist production in meeting all safety, quality, delivery and cost goals set by VBC Management. The individual will have knowledge of fermentation science and biochemical engineering principles, theory and practice with special focus on microbial fermentation operations in an industrial setting or a strong interest in acquiring such skills. The Fermentation Engineer will also act as mentor and leader to Production Specialists and Interns.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
+ Support and comply with all VBC safety and environmental training policies and programs
+ Track and trend yield and quality data for each fermentation batch for all products to identify and eliminate special cause variation and recommend continuous improvement projects
+ Chart, track and analyze other production data to recommend and implement lean manufacturing projects
+ Identify, develop and implement creative practical solutions to improve the economics of the fermentation, recovery and formulation processes
+ Write, update and maintain production master batch records, work instructions and other standard operating procedures and training manuals
+ Proactively identify problems and develop solutions to improve manufacturing operations and safety
+ Review and adjust cost standards/bill of materials
+ Assist production with troubleshooting, drive root cause analysis investigations and implement fail safe solutions as corrective/preventive actions (CAPA)
+ Participate in cost-saving initiatives, and maintain or improve product quality and yield
+ Establish procedures to ensure efficient operation and maintenance of commercial scale fermenters and all related recovery and formulation equipment
+ Provide fermentation, recovery and formulation support to production
+ Advice and train plant operators, production specialists and supervisors
+ Foster a continuous process improvement environment and help implement new technologies
+ Sponsor Capital investments/technical changes
ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES and TASKS
+ Assist in new product development and realization projects
+ Write, review and execute process validation procedures
+ Help conduct experimentation for studying the critical process parameters of fermentation, recovery and formulation processes, recommend and help with the implementation efforts of changes in order to increase the quality and yield and reduce costs and processing times
+ Help develop statistical models of the fermentation, recovery and formulation processes and then help with optimizing the processes and with the implementation of the improved methods
+ Other duties as required
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS and EDUCATION
+ BS in chemical engineering, bioengineering, biotechnology, biochemical engineering, biology, or other related fields is required, M.S. or Ph.D. preferred
+ Hands-on experience with industrial scale microbial fermentation processes or a strong interest in developing such skills is desired
+ Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills
+ Must be able to work independently and as a part of an interdisciplinary, diverse team
+ Good working knowledge of chemical and biochemical process unit operations is a plus
+ Excellent computer skills are desired
+ Working knowledge and understanding of process control and automation is a plus
+ Industrial scale hands-on plant experience with process optimization and Six Sigma experience is a plus
+ Must have flexibility to work some limited off-shift and weekend hours in order to support all production shifts when needed
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Updated March 14, 2024
Updated March 14, 2024