Associate Scientist - Laboratory Instrument Support

at  Thermo Fisher Scientific

JOB DESCRIPTION

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life - enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research, development and delivery of life-changing therapies. With clinical trials conducted in 100+ countries and ongoing development of novel frameworks for clinical research through our PPD clinical research portfolio, our work spans laboratory, digital and decentralized clinical trial services. Your determination to deliver quality and accuracy will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on – now and in the future.
Within our Analytical Services team, we have a functional service provider solution, which is an outstanding partnership that allows our customers to use the experience of our staff, while allowing you, the employee, to gain direct experience working onsite at a pharmaceutical/ biopharmaceutical company, all while maintaining full-time benefits.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor’s degree in lab sciences such as Chemistry, Biochemistry or Analytical Sciences
• Associate Scientist: Previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 0-2 years’)

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

• Initiate and maintain the lifecycle of multiple analytical instruments used in testing small molecules. The lifecycle includes initial qualification, calibration, preventative maintenance, and decommissioning of analytical instrumentation.
• Provide support to multiple laboratories by ordering supplies, coordinating vendor visits, and helping to maintain GMP status for analytical instrumentation.
• Help ensure laboratory compliance by performing routine walk-throughs to detect and mitigate potential environmental, health and safety issues
• Provide documentation support in the form of proof-reading, formatting, document control (Condor), and technical writing. Document Control Specialist will support documentation needs for controlled documents throughout the creation, revision, and final approval process
• Act as a Change Owner (Veeva) to inspire change control records for Small Molecules equipment and documents, and review of proposed changes to documents to ensure traceability throughout the document change control process
• Support special projects and investigations as needed
• Ensure timely completion of all routine activities related to instrument lifecycle (e.g., preventative maintenance activities) and change records.
• Ensure all work is completed efficiently under GMP compliance to improve operations.

• This position provides support for documentation, change control, instrument maintenance and qualification, and general laboratory support.