Associate Scientist, Quality Control
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Job overview
The Scientist I - QC performs testing of raw materials, in-process and finished pharmaceutical dosage forms, stability products, and cleaning verification samples. The role follows written procedures and applicable SOPs, documents testing activities, and calculates and reports results. It also supports laboratory investigations, assists other scientists, calibrates assigned equipment, and prepares and standardizes test solutions and reference standards.
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Description:
The Scientist I - QC is an entry-level role responsible for performing testing of raw materials, in-process and finished pharmaceutical dosage forms, products on stability, cleaning verification samples following written procedures and applicable SOPs, to clearly document activities performed during testing and to calculate and report results on applicable specification documents.
Essential Functions:
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Performs physical and chemical analysis of raw materials, in-process and finished pharmaceutical products, including products on stability, according to written methods or compendial methods as applicable, material specifications, using analytical techniques such as IR spectroscopy, UV-Vis spectroscopy, and chromatographic techniques adhering to company policies as identified in standard operating procedures (SOPs).
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Prepares samples for analysis involving thorough cleanliness and complex steps for analysis using chromatographic techniques and other analytical techniques as applicable.
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Creates and maintains laboratory record documentation (notebooks and computer-based), documents exact steps followed during analysis execution, calculates and reports results in a timely manner.
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Actively participates in investigation of laboratory results, when required.
Additional Responsibilities:
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Assists, as and when needed, scientists working in the laboratory.
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Informs QC Coordinator if chemical or reference standard is expired for removal from laboratory area.
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Performs calibration of dissolution apparatus, FT-IR, UV-Vis spectrophotometer, HPLC as assigned by the supervisor.
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Prepares volumetric test solutions following USP or in-house methods for wet chemical tests, standardizes such solutions as required, standardizes API for use as in-house reference standard as assigned.
How this job compares
Set against the 1,407 open Quality Control jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 12, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$80–131K/yr395 salary ranges
- US median$24–29/hr439 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 31 open Quality Control jobs in New Jersey and 1,407 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in New Jersey
- Osmo6 open
- Amneal Pharmaceuticals (this employer)3 open
- Bristol Myers Squibb3 open
- Experience
- Quality Control postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 2 to 5 years (998 postings).
- Education
- 323 of the 1,407 open Quality Control jobs (23%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 12, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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