Full-Time Scientist
Job Description
Are you looking for a new role as a Scientist? Do you want to work for a business that is growing at a rapid pace with lots of opportunity for the future? If so, this could be the role for you!
We are actively recruiting for a Scientist to join our clients Core Facilities Department to manage, standardise and optimise various support services and processes. Primarily meat tissue manufacture using in-house bioprocesses but also cell banking, culture media preparation and a range of sample analyses. In addition, the role will allow for select experimental mini projects with the other R&D teams. The successful applicant will have opportunities to develop in project management and, with time, line-management.
This role is offered on a full time permanent basis.
Responsibilities:
- Manage one of the meat-tissue manufacture streams, including tracking yielded product, coordination of samples, resource management, creating staff rota and generating progress reports
- Standardisation and optimisation of processes related to manufacture, cell isolation, media preparation, sample analysis and bioreactor handling
- Assist R&D teams with experimental on select mini-projects (i.e. internal support contracts)
- Update head of core facilities and wider R&D team of progress in the form of reports and presentations during 1:1 meetings, team meetings and weekly updates
- Maintenance of cell stocks (isolation, culture and banking)
- Preparation of resources for team (cells, media, reagents and biomaterials)
- Running analytical processes for spent media, cells / tissue samples and quality assurance
- Bioreactor preparation & operation
- Create SOPs, COSHH and other risk assessment documentation.
- Maintain and organise laboratory consumables, reagents and equipment inventory
- Perform routine laboratory maintenance and cleaning (as part of a rota)
- Flag and record incidents if they occur (e.g., contamination or quality failure)
- Assist in maintaining a safe working environment by following the Health and Safety Policy, the Laboratory Code of Practice and by attending health and safety training as necessary
Qualifications:
- Doctorate in either Life Sciences or related field e.g. biochemistry, cell biology or biotechnology with industry experience or post-doctoral experience in academia
- Or Bachelors in either Life Sciences or related field e.g. biochemistry, cell biology or biotechnology with industry experience or equivalent
Essential Experience:
- Has demonstrated proficiency at driving forward and delivering R&D projects by rational experimental design and implementation
- Significant experience in aseptic technique and cell culture, preferably in the establishment, differentiation and maintenance of stem or primary cell types
- Expertise in characterising and quantifying cell proliferation and differentiation in either monolayer, suspension or bioreactor cultures
- Experience of setting up and optimising cell-based processes to a robust, preferably industrial-level, standard
- Experienced and highly skilled at data analysis and inferring hypothesis using data processing and analysis software
Desirable Experience:
- Mammalian cell culture expertise in muscle and adipose lineage cells, especially from tissue isolation
- Expertise in characterising culture media for nutrients, proteins, osmolarity and dissolved gases
- Molecular biology expertise e.g. immunosorbent assays, protein quantification, lipid quantification & PCR
- Application of DoE to rational experiment design
- Hands-on experience of culturing cells in bioreactor systems
- Experience with high-throughput lab instrumentation
- Experience of writing SOPs and risk assessments
Randstad CPE values diversity and promotes equality. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010. We encourage and welcome applications from all sections of society and are more than happy to discuss reasonable adjustments and/or additional arrangements as required to support your application.
Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK.
For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business.
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