Lead Assay Scientist

at  Edger HR Consulting

My Client, Novus Diagnostics, is currently seeking a Lead Assay Scientist to join their growing team.

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR:

We are a young, driven company working to solve a major global health challenge. We are building a team of people who are excited by this challenge and committed to making a real difference through their work. We are searching for a talented Lead Assay Scientist to help bring a cutting edge diagnostic system through design, development, verification, validation, clinical trials, and regulatory approval. We are looking for a person comfortable working with uncertainty, someone who enjoys solving problems collaboratively, and someone who can help us bring a game-changing platform technology to market. The successful candidate will be commercially minded and product-focused, innovative, and collaborative with a proven track record of success from conceptualisation through implementation.

• Designing, executing and analysing experiments in the laboratory within a team setting
• Utilising a range of methods/assays/techniques in support of all activities associated with assigned projects aimed to ensure project targets are met
• Ensuring the efficient and successful delivery of project work packages to agreed timelines, actively reporting deviations/issues, making updates to timelines and conveying this information clearly and concisely in a timely manner to the CSO and wider Leadership Team where required.
• Ensuring team compliance is maintained by championing the adherence to Novus’s Quality Management System, ISO13485 standards, Health and Safety and GLP requirements
• Overseeing, mentoring and providing guidance and training to new/junior staff members, contributing to their professional development
• Authoring, executing, documenting and reviewing technical plans, data reports, process flows and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
• Maintaining consumable inventory levels within the laboratory and ensuring that equipment maintenance and calibration is performed in line with approved procedures.
• Ensuring own work and that of supervised staff meets regulatory & quality requirements
• Representing the department in internal and external audits where appropriate
• Supporting external relationship development (e.g., grant applications, KOLs and partners)
• Supporting the identification of commercially and technically useful solutions for development