Entity: CSL Behring
Job Category: Research Development & Sciences
Job Family: Discovery & Product Development
Job Type: Full Time
Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Employer Reference: R-283446
Join CSL Behring’s Technical Operations – Pathogen Safety team and help ensure the safety of life-saving plasma-derived therapies across the entire product lifecycle against viruses and other adventitious agents, such as prions.
As a Senior Scientist, Tech Ops, you will provide scientific expertise to support pathogen safety activities across Technical Operations, manufacturing, product development, and product lifecycle management. Working as a technical subject matter expert, you will partner with cross-functional project teams to evaluate pathogen safety risks, provide scientific assessments, and contribute to projects that ensure product quality, patient safety, and regulatory compliance.
This role is ideal for a scientist who enjoys solving complex technical challenges, collaborating across functions, and applying scientific expertise in a highly regulated biopharmaceutical environment.
- Provide scientific expertise to support pathogen safety activities across manufacturing, Technical Operations, product development, and lifecycle management.
- Perform scientific evaluations and pathogen safety risk assessments related to manufacturing changes, deviations, investigations, product complaints, and process improvements.
- Prepare and review scientific documentation including technical reports, regulatory responses, risk assessments, and supporting documentation.
- Contribute scientific expertise to cross-functional Technical Operations and product development projects on local and global level.
- Support investigations and resolve scientific questions impacting pathogen safety activities, e.g., virus reduction unit operations, emerging pathogens, or raw material safety.
- Represent the Global Pathogen Safety function within multidisciplinary project teams.
- Collaborate with Manufacturing Sciences & Technology (MS&T), Quality, Regulatory Affairs, Process Development, Manufacturing, and other technical functions.
- Provide timely scientific input to support project objectives and business priorities.
- Communicate technical findings clearly to both scientific and non-scientific stakeholders.
- Identify opportunities to improve scientific processes, workflows, and knowledge sharing.
- Support implementation of best practices and continuous improvement initiatives within Pathogen Safety.
- Contribute to maintaining scientific standards and operational excellence.
- Ensure all activities comply with applicable regulatory requirements, quality standards, and internal procedures.
- Support inspections, audits, and regulatory interactions as required.
- Maintain high standards of scientific integrity, documentation, and data quality.
- Master’s degree (MSc) or PhD in Virology, Microbiology, Biotechnology, Biology, Biochemistry, or another relevant Life Sciences discipline.
- Approximately 3–5 years of relevant experience within the biopharmaceutical, biotechnology, vaccine, or life sciences industry.
- Experience supporting manufacturing, Technical Operations, process development, or product lifecycle activities.
- Experience working in cross-functional project teams.
- Knowledge of GxP-regulated environments is advantageous.
- Scientific expertise in virology, microbiology, pathogen safety, biotechnology, or related disciplines.
- Strong analytical thinking and scientific problem-solving skills.
- Experience performing scientific risk assessments and interpreting technical data.
- Ability to communicate complex scientific concepts clearly.
- Strong collaboration and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic, global environment.
- Excellent written and spoken English.
- This role operates within a global, matrixed organization and involves close collaboration with colleagues and project teams across multiple regions.
- As part of its global scope, the position requires flexibility to participate in meetings and activities outside of local business hours on a periodic basis to accommodate different time zones.
CSL Behring is a global biotherapeutics leader driven by our promise to save lives. Focused on serving patients' needs by using the latest technologies, we discover, develop and deliver innovative therapies for people living with conditions in the immunology, hematology, cardiovascular and metabolic, respiratory, and transplant therapeutic areas. We use three strategic scientific platforms of plasma fractionation, recombinant protein technology, and cell and gene therapy to support continued innovation and continually refine ways in which products can address unmet medical needs and help patients lead full lives.
CSL Behring operates one of the world's largest plasma collection networks, CSL Plasma. Our parent company, CSL, headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, employs 32,000 people, and delivers its lifesaving therapies to people in more than 100 countries.
To learn more about CSL, CSL Behring, CSL Seqirus and CSL Vifor visit https://www.csl.com/ and CSL Plasma at https://www.cslplasma.com/.
At CSL, Inclusion and Belonging is at the core of our mission and who we are. It fuels our innovation day in and day out. By celebrating our differences and creating a culture of curiosity and empathy, we are able to better understand and connect with our patients and donors, foster strong relationships with our stakeholders, and sustain a diverse workforce that will move our company and industry into the future.
To learn more about inclusion and belonging visit https://www.csl.com/careers/inclusion-and-belonging
CSL is an Equal Opportunity Employer. If you are an individual with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, please visit https://www.csl.com/accessibility-statement.
