Associate Scientist III, Product Development

Associate Scientist III, Product Development

Position Summary

• Work Schedule: Monday through Friday, Standard Hours

• 100% on-site

Join Catalent’s flagship softgel development and manufacturing facility in North America, located in St. Petersburg, FL, with a capacity of 18 billion capsules per year. This role offers competitive pay, day-one benefits, and career growth in a state-of-the-art, turn-key facility.

This Associate Scientist III role provides hands-on experience across the full drug development lifecycle, from formulation through commercialization, building strong technical breadth. It is client-facing, offering exposure to cross-functional collaboration and strategic decision-making that accelerates career growth. You’ll work alongside expert teams while directly contributing to bringing innovative medicines to market.

The Role

• Conduct pre-formulation, formulation preparation, laboratory testing, and analytical work in the Product Development lab.

• Plan, schedule, and execute lab activities to ensure timely project completion.

• Perform solubility, compatibility, drying, and material characterization studies.

• Prepare laboratory fill mixes, air-filled capsules, gel swatches, and samples for animal PK studies.

• Execute physical and chemical testing including moisture, water activity, hardness, rheology, dissolution, disintegration, burst strength, and impact/drop testing.

• Perform HPLC analysis and prepare buffers, mobile phases, and dissolution media.

• Maintain accurate documentation (notebooks, batch records, reports), follow SOPs and HSE standards, and train new or existing personnel.

• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Doctorate in Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chemistry, or related science.

• Master’s degree in Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chemistry, or related science with 0-3 years of applicable product development experience required and direct pharmaceutical drug product development experience preferred.

• Bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chemistry, or related science with 3 years of applicable product development experience required and direct pharmaceutical drug product development experience preferred.

• Associate’s in Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chemistry, or related science with 15 years of applicable product development experience required and direct pharmaceutical drug product development experience preferred.

• Ability to stand, walk and reach regularly.

• Individual is required to sit, stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch regularly and lift to 15 pounds; no lifting greater than 44.09 pounds without assistance.

• Vision requirements include ability to differentiate color, have 20/30 vision with or without corrective lenses, read written documents and frequent use of a computer monitor.

Why You Should Join Catalent

• Tuition reimbursement to support educational goals

• WellHub program to promote physical wellness & Access to Perkspot discounts from over 900 merchants

• 152 hours of PTO plus 8 paid holidays

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits effective day one

• Defined career path with annual performance reviews & strong potential for career growth within a mission-driven organization

• Inclusive culture with active Employee Resource Groups & Community engagement and green initiatives

Catalent offers rewarding opportunities to further your career!  Join the global drug development and delivery leader and help us bring over 7,000 life-saving and life-enhancing products to patients around the world. Catalent is an exciting and growing international company where employees work directly with pharma, biopharma and consumer health companies of all sizes to advance new medicines from early development to clinical trials and to the market. Catalent produces more than 70 billion doses per year, and each one will be used by someone who is counting on us. Join us in making a difference. 

personal initiative. dynamic pace. meaningful work.

Visit Catalent Careers to explore career opportunities.

Catalent is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and veterans.

If you require reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process due to a disability, you may submit your request by sending an email, and confirming your request for an accommodation and include the job number, title and location to DisabilityAccommodations@catalent.com. This option is reserved for individuals who require accommodation due to a disability. Information received will be processed by a U.S. Catalent employee and then routed to a local recruiter who will provide assistance to ensure appropriate consideration in the application or hiring process.

Notice to Agency and Search Firm Representatives: Catalent Pharma Solutions (Catalent) is not accepting unsolicited resumes from agencies and/or search firms for this job posting. Resumes submitted to any Catalent employee by a third party agency and/or search firm without a valid written & signed search agreement, will become the sole property of Catalent. No fee will be paid if a candidate is hired for this position as a result of an unsolicited agency or search firm referral. Thank you.

Important Security Notice to U.S. Job Seekers:

Catalent NEVER asks candidates to provide any type of payment, bank details, photocopies of identification, social security number or other highly sensitive personal information during the offer process, and we NEVER do so via email or social media. If you receive any such request, DO NOT respond— it is a fraudulent request. Please forward such requests to spam@catalent.com for us to investigate with local authorities.

California Job Seekers can find our California Job Applicant Notice HERE.