About your role
Phase1 is Orion’s paid trainee programme designed for university students, bringing together a large and diverse group of talents from various fields every year. In addition to interesting summer jobs with meaningful projects, the programme offers a variety of events, networking opportunities with other Phase1 Trainees and Orion employees, as well as small group mentoring to support your career! Could this be the first research phase of your Orion career? You can find more information about the Phase1 trainee programme on Orion’s website.

Are you eager to utilise your skills and learn more in the heart of drug product development? This is your opportunity to work in multi-disciplinary team and do work that matters and in the end benefits the patients’ lives.

We are looking for a research-driven student or recently graduated that is eager to apply pharmaceutical science for the advancement of drug development projects. Your main responsibility is to study the behaviour of excipients in a wet granulation process using a mixer torque rheometer (MTR). In addition, you will work with flowability determination of powdered materials, such as powder blends and granules. The work contains laboratory work as well as data handling and review, making conclusions and reporting of the work. During the summer, you will also familiarize yourself with pharmaceutical manufacturing and analytical equipment and their use. The work involves collaboration with stakeholders working closely together in multi-disciplinary teams and thus gives a great opportunity to see and breathe pharmaceutical development in industrial settings.

What we offer

In our team, you'll get a broad insight into pharmaceutical product development. You'll also get responsibility during the summer as we offer you the opportunity to challenge yourself with interesting and varied tasks. During the summer you will also get a comprehensive overview of Orion's processes, activities and learn about different positions within the corporation.

At Orion, your work creates true impact and well-being for our customers, patients and society at large. ​Our culture of friendliness, respect, mutual appreciation and diversity creates a safe working environment where you can strive for excellence. We offer a wealth of career paths and development opportunities that support the development of innovative solutions and improving the quality of life.

Please visit our website to find further information about our values and Orion as an employer https://www.orion.fi/en/careers/orion-as-an-employer/.

Our expectations

• University studies in pharmaceutical or other relevant field
• Laboratory work experience
• You are a self-motivated doer and have an accurate working style
• Motivated to learn
• A team player who can articulate his/hers own opinion

Additional information and how to apply

Please apply as soon as possible, but no later than February 1st, 2026. We might start interviewing candidates during the application time, so please ensure that we have your application as soon as possible!

Our Phase1 trainees will be paid a monthly salary of €2370–2625, depending on the number of completed study credits. In addition, the Phase1 trainees are eligible to various employee benefits offered by the company.

If you would like to know more about the application process and timelines, please visit our website. 
Welcome to build well-being with us next summer 2026!

We will carry out a security clearance prior to the employment for the selected person.

Unit description
Orion’s pharmaceutical innovations are created within its R&D organization. We employ around 400 top professionals in the field of drug discovery and development. We work globally: in Espoo and Turku in Finland, in Nottingham in England and in New York, NY, USA. Orion R&D and the Innovative Medicines business division are dedicated to making a transformation to become a global player in the pain and oncology therapy areas.

This position is situated in Clinical Product Development unit, which belongs to Pharmaceutical Sciences department within Orion Pharma Research and Development. Your colleagues are scientists working with formulation development, and chemical and physical analytics. We operate in project teams to develop new drug products for humans in the exploratory phase of drug development process.

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