Contact Email: recruitment@obpvaccines.co.za
Closing Date: March 7, 2025
The Senior Scientist shall undertake research in order to create or improve technologies and
vaccine products related to veterinary diseases caused by bacterial pathogens.
Main Responsibilities include: *Develop and commercialize new products. *Profile current
vaccines against emerging bacterial pathogens * Improve and modify current products as per
regulatory requirements and technological changes. *Improve, profile and preserve animal
pathogens, cultures and vaccine antigens. * Improve production processes and technologies
for bacterial vaccines. *Identify and implement new production, analytical and diagnostic
technologies. *Develop and integrate processes and technologies for large scale production.
*Continuously improve production equipment efficiencies. *Research, develop and implement
new and improved manufacturing technologies for bacterial products. *Transfer technologies
seamlessly to internal and external stakeholders. * Provide relevant support services to other
business units as per operational requirements (seed stocks, cells, troubleshooting, process
auditing, customer complaints investigations and technical information and expert advice).
*Keep abreast of current, relevant literature, technologies, and regulatory changes to inform
internal product and process development activities). *Identify and secure external funding for
OBP’s research priority areas. *Develop peer-reviewed technical documents and outputs that
advance the scientific outlook of OBP products. *Interact and network with relevant partners to
foster a collaborative research environment within OBP terms and conditions. *Ensure
compliance to ISO and GLP/GMP/GCP requirements and the Occupational Health and Safety
Act (OH&S) and Company Regulations. *Assist with the implementation of ISO and GLP/GMP
standards. *Observe and comply with the OH&S Regulations. *Update SOPs. *Oversee master
seed stock management as required. *Oversee allocated projects conducted by researchers.
*Supervise business core functions done within R&D (seed stock management, cell stock
management, equipment maintenance etc). *Participate in human capital development in fields
relevant to OBP (formal supervision of students registered for higher degrees, mentoring of staff
and students, development of training needs etc.) * Contribute towards the mitigation of the
department’s risk profile by implementing sound governance and compliance processes and
tools to identify and manage risks.
Minimum Requirements: * PhD degree in Biological or Veterinary Sciences (NQF 10) *5 Years
post PhD working experience in Biological sciences research and development environment
with the following: *Experience in the animal health research including understanding of vaccine
regulatory environment. *Industrial experience in the vaccine development value chain, i.e.
discovery, antigen stock characterization and preservation, manufacturing process design,
quality control protocol development, product efficacy evaluation, and technology transfer.
*Combined knowledge bacteriology, parasitology, and immunology as it pertains to veterinary
diseases, vaccine manufacturing and animal health. *Proven track record of having established
sufficiently funded collaborative partnerships and networks that yielded commercial products
and technologies. *Proven track record in successfully mentoring junior employees and
trainees. *Working knowledge of quality management systems of interest to OBP, namely,
GCP/GLP/GMP/ISO.
Remuneration: A Paterson Grade D remuneration package will be offered that is
commensurate with experience and qualification of the successful candidate.
Qualified candidates should apply via the Pnet portal: pnet.co.za
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