Job Description
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client is the second largest private employer in Chicago. We are a multicultural, international community of more than 20,000 faculty and staff-each supporting UChicago's mission of inquiry and academic excellence. Our client is a Medical Center provides world-renowned patient care, while advancing medical science through groundbreaking research. Together, UChicago Medicine and the Biological Sciences Division are working to address the world's most pressing medical challenges.
Job Title: Genomics Technician
Duration: 6 Months
Location: Chicago, IL 60613
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite
Shift: (08:00 AM To 05:00 PM) Monday To Friday
Job Description:
Responsibilities:
- OT is rare, but this may be required if the research demands it.
- Operates the Facility's sample QC equipment, which includes the fragment analyzer, the bio-analyzer, qubit and the qPCR instruments.
- Operates the Facility's sequencing equipment (Illumina NovaSEQ / Element AVITI).
- Additional Core operated platforms, as guided by the Director.
- Administrative processing of new work / projects and the associated client communication emails.
- Maintains technical and administrative support for a research project.
- Analyzes and maintains data and/or specimens. Conducts literature reviews. Assists with preparation of reports, manuscripts and other documents.
- Installs, sets up and performs experiments; interacting with students and other laboratory staff under the direction of the principal investigator.
- The Genomics Facility provides access to advanced genomics technologies to client researchers.
- These technologies include Single-Cell Genomics, Next-Generation Sequencing, Micro-arrays, Sanger Sequencing as well as general nucleic acid sample QC and processing.
- The facility is part of the Office of Shared Research Facilities.
Qualifications:
Education:
- Minimum requirements include a college or university degree in related field.
Experience:
- Minimum requirements include knowledge and skills developed through < 2 years of work experience in a related job discipline.
- Preferred is a minimum of 3-6 months prior experience in a genomics research lab setting.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills required to communicate internally with co-workers and externally with Facility clients.
- Ability to work under pressure, manage competing deadlines and priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Detail oriented with strong sense of work ownership.
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
- Ability to work at a computer for extended periods of time.
- Ability to perform lab-based tasks for an extended period of time.
- The Genomics Technician is involved in NGS sample intake, NGS sample QC, NGS sample processing, culminating in Sequencer (Illumina/Element) operation.
- Additionally, based on the workload of projects handled by the facility at any given time, the position will provide supplementary assistance to other teams as needed and determined by the Director.
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Chicago, IL |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Salary | $41.91 |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2009 |
| Website | http://www.tekwissen.com/ |
About Company
WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE
TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.
To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.
Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.
It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.
Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.Skills
- Administrative Skillsunmatched
- Biologyunmatched
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- Customer/Client Researchunmatched
- Data Analysisunmatched
- Detail Orientedunmatched
- Diversityunmatched
- Genomicsunmatched
- Medicineunmatched
- Multiculturalunmatched
- Next Generation Sequencing (NGS)unmatched
- Nucleic Acidunmatched
- Patient Careunmatched
- Presentation/Verbal Skillsunmatched
- Quality Controlunmatched
- Real-time PCR (qPCR)unmatched
- Reporting Skillsunmatched
- Research Laboratoryunmatched
- Scientific Researchunmatched
- Technical Researchunmatched
- Technical Supportunmatched
- Time Managementunmatched
- Workforce Managementunmatched
- Writing Skillsunmatched
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