Sr. Lab Technician, Cell Biology

When you join us at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you'll be part of a smart, driven team that shares your passion for exploration and discovery. With revenues of $20 billion and the largest investment in R&D in the industry, we give our people the resources and opportunities to make significant contributions to the world.
In a complex world of producing biologics-based therapeutics and vaccines, help us be a part of this story with our BioProduction team. With applications that span the drug development process-from drug discovery through large-scale commercial production-help us develop a broad range of products including single-use technologies as well as analytical instruments, cell culture labware and media, centrifugation, purification, and analytics for the detection of process/product impurities and contaminants.
Position Summary:
We are searching for a Sr Lab Technician, Cell Biology that will design experimental plans with guidance and executes experiments, analyzes data, generates laboratory protocols, and contributes to technical reports and product summaries.
Responsibilities:
- Designs experimental plans with guidance and executes experiments, analyzes data, generates laboratory protocols, and contributes to technical reports and product summaries
- Works on problems of moderate scope where analysis of data requires an evaluation of various factors
- Exhibits creativity in selecting approaches and techniques for obtaining solutions
- Investigates new methods and technologies and maintains accurate lab notebook to support the protection of intellectual property in accordance with relevant Thermo Fisher required standards
- Maintains knowledge of principles and theories through familiarity with competing technologies and/or products and review of current scientific literature
- Interacts with other internal departments (i.e., Business Development, Quality, Operations, Technical Services, and/or Marketing) in the commercialization of new products
- Performs duties independently with guidance from the manager
- Complies with all company safety, training, and quality regulations (e.g., ISO compliance, GLP/GMP requirements, etc.) and procedures
- May be required to perform other related duties as required and/or assigned
Minimum Qualifications (must have):
- Bachelor's degree in Biology, Bioengineering, Biochemistry or other related disciplines OR minimum two years experience as lab technician or equivalent
- Familiar with methods and techniques of small-scale mammalian cell culture
- Basic understanding of statistical analysis
- Demonstrated competence in data analysis
- Frequent technical interaction with colleagues and members of other departments
Preferred Qualifications (nice to have):
- Working knowledge of scientific principles and proven proficiency in statistical design of experiments (DOE)
- Experience in research design and the evaluation of new techniques and procedures for manufacturing reagents, systems, products, or technologies
- Understanding of chemical, biochemical and physical interactions of cell culture media and reagent components
- Previous cell culture experience with cell lines used in protein production applications (e.g. CHO, HEK293, NS0)
- Previous experience with cell types used in cell therapy applications (e.g. T cells, MSC, ESC) or cell lines used in the production of viral vaccines (e.g. Vero, MRC-5, BHK)
- Familiarity with the operation of bench-top stirred tank bioreactors and related process development laboratory equipment as well as the scale-up of bioreactor and mixing systems
- Experience with high-throughput cell culture technologies (e.g. ambr15)
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to communicate scientific results in a clear, concise, & accurate manner
- Excellent organizational skills, including the ability to efficiently evaluate and manage multiple project tasks
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