Senior Scientist - Cell Culture / Automation

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
• Sr. Scientist: Previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 4+ years’)
• OR Masters degree and previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 2+ years’)
• OR PhD
  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:

• Experience with or understanding of robotic liquid handers (TECAN, Hamilton or other) and their operating software (Fluent Gx, VENUS, or other) for automated sample preparation.
• Hands-on experience and technical proficiency with mammalian cell culture, aseptic technique, cell-based assay development, ELISA, HPLC, PCR ddPCR/qPCR, RT-qPCR, flow cytometry, SDS-Page and/or HPLC.
• Understanding of process development for cell and gene therapy products.
• Team player, innovative, collaborative, and initiative.

• Carry out routine cell culture of mammalian cell types including but not limited to embryonic stem cells, hematopoietic stem cells, cell lines etc.
• Operate and involve in developing automated cell culture methods for routine culture of stem cells.
• Involve in routine analytical testing for flow cytometry, cell based assays and 3D cell culture operations to support Core team
• Work with internal Core team to ensure that samples are distributed accurately and efficiently.
• Work collaboratively with the Analytical Development and Process development group to ensure successful transfer of developed assays and to resolve any technical issues that arise during execution of the transfer.
• Communicate cross functionally across teams to ensure the sample testing is effectively coordinated.
• Some weekend work/Holiday work is necessary for the job
• Maintain excellent written documentation (e.g., lab notebook and test forms)
• Assist with lab organization and compliance with lab safety protocols.
• This position is lab-based and requires 80% lab testing and 20% sample/data management and is ONSITE role.