Scientist - FLOW

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.
Thermo Fisher’s clinical research business is a leading global contract research organization and world leader in serving science. We are passionate, deliberate, and driven by our mission – to enable our customers to make the world healthier, safer, and cleaner.
Within our Analytical Services team, we have a functional service provider solution, which is a unique partnership that allows our customers to leverage 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, Material Science, Immunology, Biology, Molecular Biology or similar
• Scientist: Previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 2+ years’)
• OR Masters degree
  In some cases, an equivalency, consisting of a combination of appropriate education, training and/or directly related experience, will be considered sufficient for an individual to meet the requirements of the role.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

• Proven experience with flow cytometry or other immunostaining-based methods
• Experience with at least one of the following methods: mammalian cell culture, ELISA, qPCR/PCR, or immunoblotting
• Experience in writing technical documents, such as SOPs and study reports, in a non-GxP environment.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to build open and collaborative relationships
• Proficient in Microsoft Office
• Proven problem solving and troubleshooting abilities
• Good written and oral communication skills
• Time management and project management skills
• Ability to work effectively as a member of a multidisciplinary team

• Complete analytical methods (e.g. flow cytometry, potency assays, etc.) to support Analytical Development (AD) studies within the Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) program
• Perform data analysis, data verification, and generate reports for experimental studies
• Promote cross-functional communication and organization pertaining to workflow logistics and data reporting
• Troubleshoot, optimize, and trend assay performance in conjunction with manager
• Contribute to the identification, development, and validation of assay controls (e.g. experimental design, execution, data analysis, maintenance of cell lines)
• Identify and manage analytical reagents and instrumentation as per regulatory standards
• Execute test methods in support of Analytical Development activities
• Maintain excellent written documentation (e.g. electronic lab notebook and test forms)