Purification Scientist

**Overview**: TekWissen Group is a workforce management provider throughout the USA and many other countries in the world. The below job opportunity is with one of our Biot ech clients who researches develop and commercializes drugs. The company focuses primarily on antiviral drugs used in the treatment of HIV, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and influenza, including Harvoni and Sovaldi.

**Position: Senior Research Associate I / Purification**

**Location: Oceanside, CA 92056**

**Duration: 6 Months**

**Job Type: Contract**

**Work Type: Onsite**

**Description**:
**Responsibilities**:

- Working understanding of downstream process development and scale up including centrifugation, normal flow filtration, chromatography operations, tangential flow filtration, and virus inactivation/removal. The ability to demonstrate hands on experience in several of these areas is expected.
- Work effectively within the purification team to help design and execute experiments supporting process definition, optimization, and characterization with an increasing level of independence.
- Be an effective communicator of ideas, project goals and results to the team and should have the ability to proactively identify issues and suggest solutions in a collaborative multidisciplinary environment. This is a highly collaborative environment where willingness and ability to communicate and work effectively with individuals across various teams is essential.

**Must Have Requirements**:

- Hands-on execution of AKTA pure/ AKTA avant.
- Understand all aspects of purification process development, process scale up - TFF (Tangential flow filtration), Chromatography.

**Education/Experience Requirements**:

- Requires a BS in Chemical/Biochemical Engineering, Biochemistry or a related scientific discipline

**Other Skills**:

- Excellent communication skills (both verbal and technical) and interpersonal skills are required.
- Must be able to participate in highly effective teams, and work with collaborative communication and problem solving spirit.
- Ability to work with increasing independence in the initiation and execution of laboratory experimentation.
- Willingness to proactively seeking out senior personnel to define goals, design experiments, discuss results and suggest next steps.
- Demonstrates ability to recognize anomalous and inconsistent results and interpret experimental outcomes.

**TekWissen® Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.**

**Job Type**: Contract

Pay: $37.00 - $41.00 per hour

Expected hours: 40 per week

Medical specialties:

- Oncology

Schedule:

- Day shift

Work Location: In person