Bioprocess Technician

Qualifications:

Education Minimum Requirement:

A bachelor’s degree in a relevant scientific discipline (biochemistry, chemistry, biology), life sciences, Engineering.

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 environment.

• 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:

• 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