Our esteemed client, a trailblazing global pharmaceutical powerhouse, renowned for their expertise in developing and manufacturing a wide array of world-class pharmaceutical drugs, life-saving vaccines, and innovative animal-health products, is in search of an exceptional NGS Scientist join their dynamic team!
Location: Clark, NJ
Job Type: 1 year contract
Pay: $35/ hour
Responsibilities:
- The primary mission of the group is to design and engineer enzymes, therapeutic proteins/peptides to enable drug discovery and development.
- This position in our molecular biology team is responsible for DNA related workflow (gene library construction and cloning, high-throughput DNA preparation, and sequencing) to support our protein directed evolution workflow.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Biological Science plus 4+ years of relevant experience in molecular biology or an MS Degree with 2+ years of experience, or a PhD in a related discipline.
- Proficiency with essential molecular biology techniques such as: DNA cloning, DNA purification, PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction), Primer design, DNA sequencing and analysis, Bacterial transformation and culture
- Expertise in Molecular Biology Techniques (DNA/RNA extraction, PCR, Cloning, mutagenesis, gel electrophoresis, bacterial transformation and culture)
- Ability to independently design Molecular Cloning works
- Experience with DNA sequencing technologies (Sanger) and sequencing data analysis
- Strong communication and organization skills
- Excellent teamwork and multitasking
- Good documentation of experimental reports
- Nice to have Molecular Biology and analysis software (Geneious, Benchling, etc)
- Programming skills (Python, etc) are plus.
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