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These opportunities in our Global Support Functions Division can provide you with great development and a chance to see if we are the right company for your long-term goals\nAre you looking for an exciting opportunity with a rapidly growing pharmaceutical manufacturer? If so, then this is the opportunity for you! We are seeking a Growth and Improvement minded 3D Technologies Coop that can help drive our Strategic Operating Priorities.\nOur ability to excel depends on the integrity, knowledge, imagination, skill, diversity and teamwork of an individual like you. To this end, we strive to create an environment of mutual respect, encouragement, and teamwork. As part of our global team, you’ll have the opportunity to collaborate with talented and dedicated colleagues while developing and expanding your career.\nInvent | Pursue the Most Promising Internal and External Science to Address Significant Unmet Medical Needs\nExecute | Prioritize Resources Behind Our Key Growth Drivers (Oncology, Vaccines, Select Specialty Areas, Animal Health) While Optimizing Our Base Business)\nAdapt | Develop Our People, Culture and Business Model to Evolve with a Dynamic Landscape\nDiverse Talent | We are committed to providing an inclusive and welcoming environment with supporting leadership behaviors because having a high-performing, engaged workforce is critical to our ability to deliver innovative solutions to patients and customers around the world\nValues and Standards | Our Steadfast Commitment to Our Values and Standards will Continue to Guide Us as We Take on New Challenges and Will Always be Fundamental to Our Success - They are a Competitive Advantage for Us\nSummary, Focus and Purpose\nOur 3D Technologies enterprise team operates as a business partner for raised challenges and problems to propose ideas and innovative solutions that enable new organizational capabilities. Our mission statement is to democratize inventing and make it easy and accessible to anyone at our company. Our core DevOps team collaborates internationally across the globe to deliver solutions that help everyone to be more productive and enable innovation, through CAD, 3D printing, and other services.\nThe 3DT Materials & Process supports our pipeline projects for Quality & Compliance (QC), usually when there are cGMP factors. The propensity for defects is different with 3D printing vs. other manufacturing techniques, and the challenge in understanding, reducing or eliminating, or designing around, is largely burdened onto the end user. The QC team aims to learn and up-knowledge our main DevOps team in these constraints and enhance the portfolio of fabrication techniques to support the pharmaceutical business while maintaining GMP compliance.\nIn this role, the co-op/intern will be primarily focused on QC support, through efforts such as:\nA) Qualifying new equipment\nQualify new printers or other equipment into service and help outline processing conditions to ensure equipment meets minimum quality controls (e.g. FDM, SLA, injection molding)\nIdentify root cause of print failures across a fleet through systematic analysis\nIdentify and document equipment failures and part defects to improve or expand our Quality Control checks and Go-NoGo inspections and to help train new automated systems\nB) Continuous improvements and R&D\nIdentify workflows in lab Dev & Ops and 3D printing production for improvement opportunities\nExecute on research to expand our capabilities, such as 3DP for injection molding, 3DP of tablets/pills, or wetted path components for bioprocessing\nC) Material characterization\nUtilize material characterization and imaging equipment (e.g. micro-CT, izod impact, HDT) to improve understanding of defects and improve processes\nD) Side gig opportunities\nParticipate hands-on post-processing techniques to learn practical tips and tricks for assembly, as well as ensuring high quality parts to go into a pharmaceutical cleanroom\nManning a table at outreach events as they present themselves, such as Take Your Child to Work Day\nExposure to and collaboration with different departments and multiple parts of a pharmaceutical processes\nThis role will be a primarily onsite, with an expectation for onsite attendance of 4-5 days per week.\nRequired Education and Experience:\nCandidate must be currently pursuing degree in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related discipline\nCandidate must be currently enrolled in an academic program and returning to university following this co-op assignment to complete credit requirements for graduation\nCandidate must be available for full time employment for a period of 4-6 months in Apr2027 - Sep2027\nPreferred Experience and Skills:\nKnowledge of some of the following: x-ray computed tomography (XRCT), optical microscopy, hardness testing, and tensile testing\nHands-on experience with 3D printers (any of: CAD / slicing / printing / fixing printers)\n3D CAD\nGood documentation skills\nThis role will most likely be best suited for a 2nd or 3rd coop cycle\nPlease note that this position may be closed before the posted end date or may remain open longer, at the discretion of the company.\nSalary range:\nThe salary range for this role is $39,908 - $111,111\nFTP2027\nGSF2027\nRequired Skills:\nAssembly Processes, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Clinical Research, Cloud Data Catalog, Conceptualization, Data Analysis, Database Management, Data Science, Data Security, Data Visualization, Data Wrangling, Defects AnalysisPreferred Skills:\nCurrent Employees apply HERE\nCurrent Contingent Workers apply HERE\nUS and Puerto Rico Residents Only:\nOur company is committed to inclusion, ensuring that candidates can engage in a hiring process that exhibits their true capabilities. Please click here if you need an accommodation during the application or hiring process.\nAs an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer, we provide equal opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. Asa federal contractor, we comply with all affirmative action requirements for protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. For more information about personal rights under the U.S. Equal Opportunity Employment laws, visit:\nEEOC Know Your Rights\nEEOC GINA Supplement\nWe are proud to be a company that embraces the value of bringing together, talented, and committed people with diverse experiences, perspectives, skills and backgrounds. The fastest way to breakthrough innovation is when people with diverse ideas, broad experiences, backgrounds, and skills come together in an inclusive environment. We encourage our colleagues to respectfully challenge one another’s thinking and approach problems collectively.\nLearn more about your rights, including under California, Colorado and other US State Acts\nSan Francisco Residents Only: We will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records for employment in compliance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance\nLos Angeles Residents Only: We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance\nSearch Firm Representatives Please Read Carefully\nMerck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA, also known as Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, Rahway, NJ, USA, does not accept unsolicited assistance from search firms for employment opportunities. All CVs / resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at our company without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of our company. No fee will be paid in the event a candidate is hired by our company as a result of an agency referral where no pre-existing agreement is in place. Where agency agreements are in place, introductions are position specific. Please, no phone calls or emails.\nEmployee Status:\nIntern/Co-op (Fixed Term)Relocation:\nNo relocationVISA Sponsorship:\nNoTravel Requirements:\nNo Travel RequiredFlexible Work Arrangements:\nNot ApplicableShift:\nNot IndicatedValid Driving License:\nNoHazardous Material(s):\nn/aJob Posting End Date:\n12/7/2026*A job posting is effective until 11:59:59PM on the day BEFORE the listed job posting end date. 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