Job Title: Automation Scientist (Robotics Contractor)
Work Location: Lower Gwynedd Township, PA
Contract Duration: 1 Year
Working Hours: Mon – Fri, 8AM – 5PM
Note:
- This will be a year assignment with possibility of extension.
- This is 100% onsite role.
Qualifications:
Actual Job Title: Robotics Contractor (Automation Scientist)
Education:
- Bachelor's degree in life sciences, Engineering, or equivalent scientific degree with a Laboratory background.
- Master’s degree in life sciences, Engineering, or equivalent scientific degree with a Laboratory background.
Experience Required:
- With Bachelor's degree, minimum 3 years of experience.
- With Master’s degree minimum 2 years of experience.
Required Skills:
- Experience with laboratory liquid handler (Beckman/Hamilton).
- Use of electronic laboratory notebooks.
- Familiarity with Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS).
- Excellent communication (oral and written) and attention to detail.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team, self-motivation, adaptability, and a positive attitude.
Preferred Skills:
- Experience in cell culture and cell-based assays such as ELISpot, flow cytometry-based assays, or PBMC isolation.
- Working experience in a regulated environment (GxP, preferably GLP) and instrument validation experience.
Responsibilities:
Your role at Client is integral to helping the world meet new breakthroughs that affect generations to come, and we are counting on your skills and inventiveness to help make meaningful contributions to global medical advancement. At Client, we are inventing for life. Scientists in the Automation team within the Regulated Bioanalytical Immunogenicity and Molecular group at Springhouse, PA contribute to the vaccine and biologic therapeutic area through development, optimization, validation, clinical and pre-clinical testing.
- This specific position will support the development of automated platforms and assays to support regulated bioanalysis and analytical development.
- The individual should have a knowledge of the principles and concepts of various techniques to assist in integration and operation of various liquid handlers and laboratory equipment, facilitate assay data results, and produce visualization to assess assay results.
- The successful candidate will provide solutions to experiments with laboratory equipment and automation and sample preparation as needed.
- The responsibilities of the Scientist will be to work collaboratively in a fast-paced environment to operate automated laboratory equipment and systems to the support of the vaccines and biologics pre-clinical and clinical studies in a regulated environment.
- The candidate will be able to execute bioanalytical methods on automated systems to support pre-clinical and clinical studies.
Responsibilities:
- Operate and integrate various automated systems and laboratory equipment.
- Operational troubleshooting and error recovery for laboratory equipment.
- Follow/Develop Assay SOPs including robotic operations.
- Work in a structured environment under direct to moderate supervision.
- Adhere to GLP regulations and safety requirements in BSL-2.
- Contribute to the validation and implementation of novel automated workflows.