# Associate Specialist, Operations (Onsite)

Job Description The Small Scale Organics (SSO) Pilot Plant is a GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices) manufacturing facility in the Small Molecule Process Research and Development (SM PR&D) organization. The SSO pilot plant enables gain of critical internal experience with scale-up of manufacturing GMP steps, demonstration of new manufacturing technology/processes, training opportunities for improved manufacturing process development, and seamless technology transfer to commercial sites. The SSO Operations Specialist will provide hands on assistance for daily production activities while ensuring compliance with Safety & Environmental (S&E) and current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMPs) requirements to meet SSO objectives and customer requirements. The position is responsible for implementing actions to meet S&E and GMP requirements. This position is also responsible for ensuring facility readiness for batch processing and shares accountability for the building performance. Ultimately, this position is expected to work cooperatively with the SSO leadership team and SSO partners to drive overall success and performance of the building, and ultimately strong support for the overall SM

- **Id**: 1427624
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/merck-co-associate-specialist-operations-onsite-2>
- **Role**: Operations
- **Role family**: Operations
- **Seniority**: junior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Rahway, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 4
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-28T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-15T07:25:37Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 48
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 9785
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Flexible schedule
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Veterinary Medicine, Vaccines, Biologics & Biosimilars, Oncology Therapeutics

## Company

- **Id**: 3768
- **Name**: Merck & Co.
- **Domain**: msd.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/msd>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 97
- **Open postings**: 221
- **Ghost share**: 0.032
- **Stale share**: 0.149
- **Repost share**: 0.19
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 16
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-15T07:52:55Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 71900
- **Max**: 113200
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 113200

## Technologies

- **GMP** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 1
- **Days open**: 47

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 4
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: high_school
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Puerto Rico** — Iso: PR; Kind: country
- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-29T00:16:55Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-10-23T16:23:50Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-11-12T18:26:54Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: no; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 139; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Offered visa sponsorship in 139 of its adverts here in 24 months; Filings 12m: 0

## Liveness

- **Score**: 14
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.514
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 48
- **Expected fill days**: 16
- **Reasons**: conf:0, velocity, win:tail, crowd:junior,brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-15T07:52:55Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 113200
- **Is top pay**: yes

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