Full-Time Senior Scientist
Job Description
Are you looking for a new role as a Senior Scientist? Are you looking for a Protein based Team Leader role? 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!
This role is for a Senior Scientist to work as our client’s Protein Sciences Leader. The successful candidate will be utilising their expertise to design and execute protein engineering strategies, source new technologies and implement new assays towards low cost and reproducible manufacture of proteins such as growth factors for cultivated meat. You will work closely with the other R&D teams to optimise protocols and deliver our company-wide milestones.
This role is offered on a full time permanent basis, with a business that also offers lots of other benefits that will make you feel truly at home whilst at work.
Responsibilities:
- Advance protein expression, purification, characterisation and analysis capabilities
- Develop assays for high-throughput screening
- Source, evaluate and test growth factors using high-throughput methodologies
- Evaluate available technologies for the supplementation and cost reduction of proteins in the media
- Design, plan, and perform complex experiments to ensure deliverables are successfully met within project timelines
- Determine the most appropriate methodologies to test hypotheses, and identify suitable alternatives if technical problems arise
- Document research findings clearly in an electronic lab book
- Write and further develop experimental protocols and generate laboratory SOPs
- Support the preparation of laboratory risk assessments and maintenance of health and safety protocols
- Lead and develop the Protein Sciences team by providing guidance and support
- Participate as a key member of the R&D management team with responsibility for day-to-day decision making within your team
- Provide written and verbal progress reports to the Senior Leadership Team and to external collaborators
- Keep up to date with field developments and apply these to improve experimental design and assay performance
Qualifications:
- A PhD in a relevant area of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology or related field
- ≥ 6 years of post-doctoral or industry experience in relevant area
Essential Experience:
- Extensive experience in producing, purifying proteins and analysing their quality and bioactivity
- Expertise with analytical techniques and computational approaches to protein engineering
- Industrial experience with assay development, high-throughput screening and protein characterization
- Strong background in cellular and molecular biology technical processes such as cell-based activity assays, enzyme-based metabolism assays, immunosorbent assays, protein quantification and protein refolding
- Proven history of refining protocols and methodologies to reduce cost base
- Skilled at the design, set-up and running of complex experiments
- Proficient in the detailed statistical analysis and presentation of intricate data sets
- Experience of writing SOPs and risk assessments under quality management system
- Highly organised, self-motivated, and capable of working both independently and collaboratively, in a fast-paced team environment with shifting priorities
- Skilled in root cause analysis and problem solving
- Management experience with a proven track record of success delivering R&D projects
- Strategic thinker and a history of independent investigations and innovative thinking
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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