Microbiology Lab Technician

Education Minimum Requirement: A bachelor’s degree in a relevant scientific discipline (biochemistry, chemistry, biology), life sciences, Engineering

Experiences with Microbial fermentation as a requirement when you are doing pre-screening

Required Experience and Skills • Wet chemistry laboratory skills (pipetting, buffer preparation, filtration, dilution, stoichiometry)

• Proficiency with technical writing and laboratory records (laboratory notebooks, chemical inventory, data management)

• Excellent collaborative and team-working skills

• Strong technical problem-solving abilities, data interpretation and presentation competence

Preferred Experience and Skills: • Experience working with analytical instrumentation (plate readers, densitometers, thermocyclers, cIEF, UV/Vis spectrophotometers, HPLC/ UPLC systems)

• Experience working with tangential flow filtration processing – microfiltration/ultrafiltration

• Experience working with protein purification • Experience working with column chromatography and AKTA/Unicorn systems • Experience performing fermentation or cell culture studies at the labs scale • Experience performing fermentation or cell culture studies using shake flasks • Knowledge of yeast fermentation and metabolism • Experience working in GMP and GLP environments • Experience with laboratory operations • Experience with facility operations • Experience working in an industry environments • Experience conducting laboratory scale process characterization studies • Experience troubleshooting technical issues (experimental, equipment-related issues) • Experience with material characterization • 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