Senior Scientist - ELISA / MSD - R&D

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:

• Strong hands-on experience with the following analytical techniques is required: ELISA, MSD, qPCR, ddPCR, protein separation
• Strong hands-on experience with cellular/protein sample handling and molecular biology preparation techniques is required.
• Prior experience in an analytical development program preferred
• Demonstrated capabilities to independently digest and formulate experimental conclusions by referencing orthogonal analytical results.
• Ability to use information gained from experiments to inform method and program decisions.
• Skilled in efficient study design and demonstrated expertise in writing SOPs, analytical protocols and reports.
• Ability to multi-task as necessary, managing competing priorities, and advancing multiple projects within required timelines.
• Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally to improve communication, strong track record in cross-team collaboration.
• Strong oral & written communication skills.

• Designs and performs impurities assays to support cell therapy and protein products
• Provide expertise in experimental design, data analysis, assay trouble shooting, technical report writing, and presentations.
• Author analytical method, qualification, and validation reports.
• Maintain proper documentation of experimental results and data interpretations.
• Ensure data quality and maintain data integrity of analytical results to support decision making.
• Independently prepare study presentations and presents experimental conclusions at internal team meetings.
• Collaborate with research and process development teams to develop fit for purpose analytical characterization methods for target optimization, product characterization and product investigations.