Career at Duchesnay

 
Head, Pharmaceutical Maintenance

Duchesnay Inc. located in Blainville (approximately 20 km north of Montreal) is a rapidly growing pharmaceutical company specialized in the design, development, manufacturing and distribution of women’s health products. Since 1992, Duchesnay is recognized as the leading Canadian pharmaceutical company in the area of safe therapies for pregnant and lactating women.

Role and Responsibilities:

The successful candidate will work under the supervision of the Chief, Technical Services. The responsibilities will be to:

  • Design, implement and manage the preventive maintenance and calibration programme;
  • Coordinate preventive and corrective maintenance activities related to the production equipments and to the services with internal and external resources;
  • Participate in equipment and services investments;
  • Analyze failures and recommend improvements in production equipments;
  • Lead and monitor corrective maintenance operations in case of equipement failure;
  • Rigorously document and maintain equipment files according to work performed in order to implement the equipment history;

Key skills:

  • Good sense of observation, judgement and analytical skills;
  • Safety and quality oriented while being productive;
  • Autonomy, initiative and sense of responsibilities;
  • Communication and organization skills;
  • Method and rigor;
  • Team work aptitude;
  • Ability to adopt behaviors that promote a good work environment.

Required qualifications:

  • University degree in chemical engineering, mechanical engineering or equivalent;
  • Minimum of 5 to 8 years of pertinent experience;
  • Excellent knowledge of GMP;
  • Bilingualism (French/English), written and oral;
  • Knowledge of Microsoft applications.

We offer a competitive salary and a full range of fringe benefits. This is a permanent position and available immediately.

If you are interested and have the required qualifications, send us your resume before February 10, 2012

We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only selected candidates will be contacted.
Duchesnay is an equal opportunity employer.

 

 

Validation Specialist

Duchesnay Inc. located in Blainville (approximately 20 km north of Montreal) is a rapidly growing pharmaceutical company specialized in the design, development, manufacturing and distribution of women’s health products. Since 1992, Duchesnay is recognized as the leading Canadian pharmaceutical company in the area of safe therapies for pregnant and lactating women.

Role and Responsibilities:

The successful candidate will work under the supervision of the Chief, Technical Services. The responsibilities will be to:

  • Write and conduct validation protocoles (pharmaceutical processes, cleaning, equipment, service, data processing and others) and write reports;
  • Supervise or perform, when necessary, samplings at critical stages of manufacturing or cleaning processes;
  • Revise protocoles and coordinate validation activities performed by our partners (CMO);
  • Act as a technical expert for the production activities;
  • Prepare investigation reports in the case of out-from-standard results and submit recommendations to solve problems.

Key skills:

  • Good sense of observation, judgement and analytical skills;
  • Safety and quality oriented while being productive;
  • Autonomy, initiative and sense of responsibilities;
  • Communication and organization skills;
  • Method and rigor;
  • Team work aptitude;
  • Ability to adopt behaviors that promote a good work environment.

Required qualifications:

  • University degree in chemical engineering, mechanical engineering or equivalent;
  • 3 to 5 years of experience in a similar position;
  • Excellent knowledge of GMP and technical knowledge of pharmaceutical processes;
  • Bilingualism (French/English), written and oral;
  • Knowledge of Microsoft applications.

We offer a competitive salary and a full range of fringe benefits. This is a permanent position and available immediately.

If you are interested and have the required qualifications, send us your resume before February 10, 2012

We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only selected candidates will be contacted.
Duchesnay is an equal opportunity employer.

 

Operator Manufacturing And Packaging

Duchesnay Inc. located in Blainville (approximately 20 km north of Montreal) is a rapidly growing pharmaceutical company specialized in the design, development, manufacturing and distribution of women’s health products. Since 1992, Duchesnay is recognized as the leading Canadian pharmaceutical company in the area of safe therapies for pregnant and lactating women.

The company is located in Blainville, in the Lower Laurentians.

Role and responsibilities

Under the direct supervision of the Team Leader, Manufacturing and Packaging, the chosen candidate will be responsible for performing the following duties:

  • Prepare all the material for production and packaging operations
  • Measure, weigh and load the ingredients following formulation cards
  • Perform production, packaging and cleaning operations
  • Operate the required equipments
  • Perform check-ups and sampling during the manufacturing process
  • Dismantle and set up the equipments
  • Perform line clearance and start-up
  • Fill the required documents: production and packaging files, logbook, etc.
  • Learn and follow the procedures
  • Participate in the validation of equipment and procedure
  • Follow the GMP and the regulations of Health and Safety
  • Keep the work and rest areas clean
  • Perform occasional tasks to receiving and shipping
  • Perform occasional tasks assigned by the supervisor

Key skills

  • Good sense of observation and analysis
  • Autonomous, good sense of responsibility, meticulous
  • Organized, able to achieve good quality work under pressure
  • Security and quality oriented while being productive
  • Team work skilled
  • Ability to communicate
  • Ability to adopt behaviors that promote a good work environment
  • Can lift heavy weights (30 kg)

Required qualifications

  • High-school degree
  • Minimun 8 years of experience in pharmaceutical industry, specifically in tablet compression and coating
  • SIMDUT training and lift truck operation (an asset)
  • Good knowledge of French, oral and written
  • Intermediate knowledge of English, oral and written

We offer a competitive salary with a whole range of fringe benefits. This permanent full-time position is available immediately.

If you are interested and have the required qualifications, send us your resume before February 10, 2012:

We thank all the applying individuals for their interest.  Only selected candidates will be contacted.

 

MSL

Duchesnay Inc. located in Blainville (approximately 20 km north of Montreal) is a rapidly growing pharmaceutical company specialized in the design, development, manufacturing and distribution of women's health products. Since 1992, Duchesnay has been recognized as the leading Canadian pharmaceutical company in the area of safe therapies for pregnant and lactating women.
Medunik Canada, a Duchesnay's sister company also located in Blainville, is a specialized pharmaceutical company whose mission is to improve the health and quality of life of Canadian with rare diseases. To this end, the company works at commercializing orphan therapies currently not available in Canada
Role and Responsibilities:
The successful candidate will work under the supervision of the Vice-President, Corporate Affairs and Administration.  He or she will act as medical information agent on behalf of Medunik Canada and Duchesnay. He or she will be responsible for preparing and supporting the product development, launch and commercialization through scientific exchange and relationship building.  Additionally, MSLs will participate and often lead special projects and specific initiatives, leveraging their extensive experience and strategic insight.

Key responsibilities :

  • Profile the medical landscape within the therapeutic area and continuously update their knowledge, including knowledge and expertise of products, patient treatment practices, unmet medical needs, clinical trials and scientific activities;
  • Ensure awareness of current clinical data and information published in the scientific literature;​
  • Collect, analyze and report insights that may impact the companies' development plans/trial designs, launch strategies and tactics and medical education programs tailored to physicians' education needs.
  • Identify, research and approach key opinion leaders (KOL);
  • Proactively interact with healthcare professionals, develop scientific relationships and respond to unsolicited requests for scientific information using approved and non-promotional materials.
  • Contribute to the initial and ongoing medical/scientific disease area and product-specific training of internal customers.
  • Be a resource person to his our her colleagues.

 

Key skills:

  • Advanced proven ability to develop and foster peer-to-peer relationships with KOLs/decision makers.
  • Ability to coach and mentor  colleagues.
  • Intégrity.
  • Ability to synthesize and analyze scientific information within a strategic and regulatory setting.
  • Customer focus.
  • Excellent communication, negotiation and presentation skills.

Required qualifications:

  • MD, PharmD, pharmacist or PHD;
  • At least 2-3 years of experience as a Medical Science Liaison or other comparable role in pharmaceutical sector;
  • Advanced knowledge of the healthcare system, clinical research procedures and other ethical guidelines relevant to the pharmaceutical industry;
  • Experience in the area of rare disease a strong asset;
  • Prior experience in coordinating multifunctional teams, projects and initiatives;
  • Superior oral and written communication skills in English & French;
  • Practical knowledge of Microsoft and Web applications;
  • Willingness to travel 50% of time.

We offer a competitive salary and a full range of fringe benefits. This is a permanent position and available immediately.
If you are interested and have the required qualifications, send us your resume before February 10, 2012

We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only selected candidates will be contacted.
Duchesnay is an equal opportunity employer.

 

 

 

 
 
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