Analysis Skills, Biochemistry, Biology, Chemistry, Column Chromatography, Communication Skills, Establish Priorities, Experiment Design, Fermentation, GLP (Good Laboratory Practices), GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices), High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC), Identify Issues, Instrumentation, Laboratory, Laboratory Notebook, Laboratory Operations, Manufacturing, Presentation/Verbal Skills, Process Development, Protein Purification, Six Sigma, Technical Writing, Time Management, UV/VIS (Ultraviolet-Visible Spectroscopy), Unicorn Library Management System, Writing Skills
Job Title
Pay Rate: Level 1: $34 Level II $ 40 /HR on W2
Must Have: Experience working with protein purification • Recombinant protein production and purification • Protein biochemistry/biochemical skills • Experience working with tangential flow filtration processing – microfiltration/ultrafiltration • Experience working with column chromatography and AKTA/Unicorn systems
Education Minimum Requirement
A bachelor's degree in a relevant scientific discipline (biochemistry, chemistry, biology), life sciences, Engineering. Open to higher degrees
Required Experience and Skills
- Experience working with protein purification
- Recombinant protein production and purification
- Protein biochemistry/biochemical skills
- Experience working with tangential flow filtration processing – microfiltration/ultrafiltration
- Experience working with column chromatography and AKTA/Unicorn systems
Preferred Experience and Skills
- Experience working with analytical instrumentation (plate readers, densitometers, thermocyclers, cIEF, UV/Vis spectrophotometers, HPLC/UPLC systems)
- Experience working in GMP and GLP environments
- Experience with laboratory operations
- Experience working in an industry environments
- Experience conducting laboratory scale process characterization studies
- Experience troubleshooting technical issues (experimental, equipment-related issues)
- Experience working with enzymes and peptides
- Experience in method development and method transfer
- Experience with six sigma, 5S principles
Responsibilities:
As a member of Process Development, the primary goal of the position is to:
- Characterize proteins, VLPs and constituent components with a variety of analytical techniques
- Participate in/drive fermentation and/or purification of proteins/VLPs at lab and pilot scale
- Provide support for execution of process development activities and manufacturing investigations
- Perform laboratory scale studies
- Design and troubleshoot experiments
- Employ excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Author laboratory notebooks and technical documents
- Work both independently and within multidisciplinary team
- Produce high quality work against firm deadlines
- Maintain good sample handling practices
- Balance and prioritize competing deliverables
- Commit to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace