Job Description
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan, offering strategic talent solutions to clients worldwide. The opportunity below is with one of our clients, a leading global medical technology company. This organization provides a wide range of diagnostic imaging and laboratory diagnostics, as well as advanced therapies and digital health services. Its solutions span prevention and early detection through diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up care, empowering healthcare providers worldwide.
Job Title: Laboratory Technician
Location: Walpole, MA, 02032
Duration: 12 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite
Shift: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Job Description:
- The successful candidate will be part of a fast-paced R&D team support the activities of new product development (NPD) and current product support (CPS) related to Point-of-Care (POC) Assay Development, including lab testing for product development, verification and validation studies for regulatory submittals, support for customer complainants and field issues as well as proficiency testing (post-market surveillance).
Responsibilities:
- Work closely with R&D sensor and reagent scientists in using a wide variety of laboratory methods and equipment to generate and analyze data to support the design, development, and transfer to manufacturing of new sensors.
- Lab-based work including making aqueous solutions and blood preparations, assembling consumable parts, and executing R&D troubleshooting and CLSI Verification protocols on clinical chemistry analyzers and prototype instruments.
- Participate in test method development and validation by simultaneously executing several test protocols.
- Identify and take appropriate steps to assist in resolving semi-complex problems. Investigate unexpected or unusual results and effectively communicate findings.
- Assist in laboratory support functions such as chemical inventory, laboratory inventory, data extraction, authoring/revising local procedures/work instructions and receiving of materials.
- Identify and drive continual laboratory improvements.
- Regularly interacts with Research and Development, Technical Operations, and Quality Assurance personnel.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in relevant scientific majors, such as Chemistry, Biochemistry, Medical Laboratory Technology, Biomedical Laboratory Technology, Clinical Laboratory Technology and/or an equivalent combination of education and technical experience.
- Minimum of 1 year of industrial experience, preferably in laboratory environment.
- Experience working with plasma, serum, and whole blood.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to function in a team environment are essential.
- Experience with Microsoft Excel and Word are required. Basic knowledge of statistics and data analysis.
- Strong lab skills including wet chemistry and mechanical aptitude commensurate with required education and work experience.
- Adherence to GLP, GDP and safety standards. The candidate must be willing to work in a biohazardous environment.
- Experienced in maintenance and troubleshooting of laboratory equipment.
- Attentive to details and an ability to follow both the letter and intent of written procedures.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Understanding of CLSI guidance and data analysis format.
- Previous R&D industry experience (3+ years) working in the medical diagnostics field is preferred.
- Knowledge of basic electrochemical principles is desirable.
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Walpole, MA |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Salary | $28.89–$31.72 |
| 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
- Assay Developmentunmatched
- Biochemistryunmatched
- Biomedicineunmatched
- Chemistryunmatched
- Clinical Assessmentunmatched
- Clinical Laboratoryunmatched
- Clinical Practices/Protocolsunmatched
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- Customer Support/Serviceunmatched
- Data Analysisunmatched
- Data Formatsunmatched
- Diversityunmatched
- Electrochemistryunmatched
- GLP (Good Laboratory Practices)unmatched
- Healthcareunmatched
- Healthcare Providersunmatched
- Identify Issuesunmatched
- Interpersonal Skillsunmatched
- Laboratoryunmatched
- Laboratory Equipmentunmatched
- Laboratory Testingunmatched
- Manufacturingunmatched
- Medical Diagnosisunmatched
- Medical Imagingunmatched
- Microsoft Excelunmatched
- Microsoft Wordunmatched
- Plasmaunmatched
- Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
- Process Improvementunmatched
- Product Developmentunmatched
- Product Supportunmatched
- Prototypingunmatched
- Quality Assuranceunmatched
- Quality Assurance Methodologyunmatched
- Regulationsunmatched
- Research & Development (R&D)unmatched
- Safety Standardsunmatched
- Statisticsunmatched
- Surveillanceunmatched
- Technical Operationsunmatched
- Test Plan/Scheduleunmatched
- Testingunmatched
- Validation Testingunmatched
- Workforce Managementunmatched
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