Job Description
Job Title: Bioprocess Research Technician
Location: Lemont, IL 60439
Hire Type: Contract (3-Year Assignment)
Compensation: $30.00–$38.00/hr (depending on experience)
Location: Lemont, IL 60439
Hire Type: Contract (3-Year Assignment)
Compensation: $30.00–$38.00/hr (depending on experience)
Benefits: As a contract employee of Sterling, you are eligible to receive a Full Employee Benefits Package that includes paid time off, paid holidays, medical, dental, and vision insurance options, a 401(k) plan, and an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP).
Sterling Engineering is seeking a Bioprocess Research Technician to support ongoing environmental biotechnology and bioengineering research initiatives within a collaborative laboratory environment. This long-term opportunity will involve hands-on laboratory work, including bioreactor operations, analytical testing, sample analysis, and laboratory management activities supporting multiple research projects.
Key Responsibilities:
- Conduct literature reviews and summarize technical findings to support research activities.
- Operate, monitor, and maintain bioreactors and fermenters used in environmental and bioprocess applications.
- Collect and analyze samples from laboratory and pilot-scale operations.
- Perform DNA isolation and prepare samples for qPCR and metagenomic analyses.
- Conduct analytical testing using spectrophotometry and other laboratory equipment.
- Operate analytical instrumentation including FT-IR, UV-VIS, GC, and HPLC systems.
- Support laboratory organization, sample management, data archiving, and recordkeeping.
- Assist with health and safety initiatives, including hazard assessments and maintaining a safe laboratory environment.
- Compile experimental data and present findings during regular team meetings.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Biology, Microbiology, Biochemical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, or a related scientific field.
- Experience operating bioreactors and/or fermenters in a laboratory or research setting.
- Hands-on experience with analytical laboratory equipment and testing techniques.
- Familiarity with molecular biology methods, including DNA isolation and qPCR sample preparation.
- Understanding of laboratory safety practices, QA/QC principles, and environmental health and safety procedures.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Valid driver's license required.
Schedule:
- Monday through Friday
- Standard business hours
- 100% onsite in Lemont, IL
Why Apply?
- Long-term, stable 3-year contract opportunity
- Exposure to cutting-edge environmental biotechnology and bioprocess research
- Collaborative team environment with opportunities to contribute to meaningful scientific projects
- Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits package through Sterling Engineering
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Lemont, IL |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Salary | $30–$38 Per Hour |
| Company Size | 500 to 999 employees |
| Year Founded | 1969 |
| Website | http://www.sterling-engineering.com |
About Company
Sterling Engineering has been a trusted partner for engineering, project management, and staffing solutions for over five decades. We provide exceptional engineering/technical recruitment and engineering project services to clients nationwide:
- Engineering & Technical Recruitment - With our focus on engineering, technical, and IT, Sterling has the in-depth knowledge, industry expertise, and robust employee pipeline it takes to rapidly find talent for even the most difficult to fill positions. Sterling’s extensive recruitment methodology allows us to engage the most talented employees in the marketplace. We offer exciting work and career-building opportunities for our candidates, along with expert support at every step of the process.
- Engineering Project Services – Our experienced, multi-disciplined team of project managers, engineers, and designers, led by licensed Professional Engineers (PE), provide project management, engineering, design, and Commissioning, Qualification, and Validation (CQV) to manufacturing, OEM, and R&D customers. We work on complex, highly technical projects across a number of industry sectors, and our ability to scale and seamlessly integrate at multiple levels of your organization is what differentiates us.
Sterling offers a unique combination of engineering solutions and Best of Staffing level service to help our clients and talent achieve their goals.
Skills
- Analysis Skillsunmatched
- Biochemistryunmatched
- Bioengineeringunmatched
- Biologyunmatched
- Biomedical Engineeringunmatched
- Biotech and Pharmaceuticalunmatched
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- DNAunmatched
- Data Collectionunmatched
- Driver's Licenseunmatched
- Environmental Healthunmatched
- High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)unmatched
- IR (Infrared)unmatched
- Instrumentationunmatched
- Laboratoryunmatched
- Laboratory Analysisunmatched
- Laboratory Equipmentunmatched
- Laboratory Managementunmatched
- Laboratory Techniquesunmatched
- Laboratory Testingunmatched
- Microbiologyunmatched
- Molecular Biologyunmatched
- Multitaskingunmatched
- Operational Auditunmatched
- Presentation/Verbal Skillsunmatched
- Quality Assuranceunmatched
- Quality Assurance Methodologyunmatched
- Quality Controlunmatched
- Real-time PCR (qPCR)unmatched
- Research Laboratoryunmatched
- Safety Processunmatched
- Safety/Work Safetyunmatched
- Specimen Analysisunmatched
- Specimen Collectionunmatched
- Specimens/Samplesunmatched
- Team Playerunmatched
- Technical Supportunmatched
- UV/VIS (Ultraviolet-Visible Spectroscopy)unmatched
- Writing Skillsunmatched
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