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New innovations are in our future. Is a new career in yours?
Our new state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities have cutting-edge automation that helps us live our purpose: to save and improve lives around the world. Despite our advanced AI and robotics, we need you to help bring these plants to life! Here, you will help manufacture and deliver not just vaccines and medicines but hope for a better future. No matter where you are in your career—diploma, degree, or somewhere in between, your work will make a difference.
Grow your career with us
We’ve invested in growing our campus with state-of-the-art technology. Your manufacturing experience can help support the expansion of our capacity to produce a reliable supply of our products to patients worldwide. Let’s grow together.
Compensation and benefits that fit
You work hard and deserve more. In addition to pay and benefits that are better than many of our regional competitors, we offer on-site child care, a credit union, fitness center and fully-stocked cafeteria. There are also some things you can't put a price tag on, like supportive colleagues.
We're looking for skills, not degrees
Diploma, degree, somewhere in between? A four-year college degree doesn’t define your potential. Your fundamental knowledge, skills, and passion can unlock a new career path for you. We offer a variety of opportunities that focus on your experiences first and can meet you where you are right now.
A variety of positions for a variety of ambitions—what’s yours?
A variety of positions for a variety of ambitions—what’s yours?
Operations Manager
Our Operations Managers lead the teams that make our products. They operate with a “Safety First, Quality Always” mindset striving for continuous improvement. They work in the local plant connected to our global manufacturing network to ensure the highest quality of raw materials, intermediates, and finished products.
Engineer
Our Engineers help manufacturing operations remain operational, continuously improving and innovating. With our extensive range of facilities and environments, our Engineers have opportunities across many diverse areas, including biological, chemical, automation, maintenance, safety, process development, technical services, utilities, and validation.
Technician
Our Technicians perform advanced laboratory services in various manufacturing areas following Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and Standard Operating Procedures. Their jobs entail continued training and development to improve job skills and product-related procedures.
Operator
Our Operators are an integral part of our manufacturing support team. They are responsible for running, monitoring, and maintaining our vital, state-of-the-art technology and equipment that manufactures our products to the highest standards for quality and safety. They are collaborative and oversee processes requiring a special eye for detail.
Quality Assurance
Our Quality Assurance teams ensure we consistently produce safe, high-quality products. Partnering across our internal manufacturing facilities, external contract manufacturers, and suppliers, we create an interdependent global network committed to delivering a compliant, reliable supply to customers and patients on time, every time.
Operational excellence as standard
Operational excellence as standard
Along with our dedication to operational excellence, there are many aspects of our culture and vision that give our work in Manufacturing Operations added purpose.
- Constantly innovating to meet patients ever-changing needs
- Proud to be part of a company that truly lives and breathes "patients first"
- Committed to being the most trusted supplier of biopharmaceuticals globally
- Dedicated to becoming the leading research-driven biopharmaceutical company worldwide
- Innovative and unafraid to try bold ideas to improve our processes and manufacturing design
We are growing and we want you to grow with us
Since breaking ground on our 259-acre facility in 2004, we have invested some $1.6 billion in the campus. The site is named for the late Maurice R. Hilleman, Ph.D., a noted microbiologist and vaccine researcher at our company.
In 2019, we announced additional investments to support the manufacturing of existing and new products. This will include a new 225,000 square-foot addition. These projects directly impact our shared aspiration and purpose to help save and improve lives.
In 2019, we announced additional investments to support the manufacturing of existing and new products. This will include a new 225,000 square-foot addition. These projects directly impact our shared aspiration and purpose to help save and improve lives.
OneTen: we believe in your success
As a founding member of OneTen, Merck is part of a collation of leading companies and executives across industries committed to upskilling, hiring and advancing one million Black individuals in America over the next 10 years into family-sustaining jobs with opportunities for advancement. OneTen is cultivating a comprehensive skills first talent network, enabling greater opportunities for earned success. One ten is not just philanthropy. Rather it is ensuring that Black talent with the skills and aptitude to earn success also have the opportunity to achieve success.
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Opportunities coming soon! To stay connected with us, join our Skills First Talent Community for job alerts.
A career with purpose
Your work here will be at its heart, purposeful: we aspire to improve the health and wellness of people and animals worldwide and to expand access to our medicines and vaccines. Imagine getting up in the morning knowing that your work that day can help improve a life, even keep a family together longer. It’s also a career that can do good things for yourself through continuing education and training, certifications and growing professionally. You’ve probably worked hard before, but this is an opportunity for your efforts to be rewarded at a whole new level.