FSP- Research Scientist

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

Fully onsite in Collegeville, PA:
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.

Our PPD® Laboratory Services team has a direct impact on improving patient health through the expertise of scientists, industry thought-leaders and therapeutic experts. As the world leader in serving science, our laboratory professionals bring their commitment to accuracy and quality to deliver groundbreaking innovations.

Discover Impactful Work:
Responsible for the regulatory and scientific conduct of development, validation, stability projects, and/or other specialty technologies such as extractable/leachable studies. Performs troubleshooting on multiple analytical instrumentation and multiple detection techniques, calculates and interprets data, and records data in adherence with PPD SOPs and any additional requirements specific to the lab and / or client. Routinely acts as the technical project leader for multiple projects, interacts with clients on a weekly basis (or as needed) to provide updates, reviews and evaluates data, writes reports and protocols.
Overview:This Statement of Work describes a dedicated on-site service offering that provides hands-on oligonucleotide LC–MS bioanalytical capacity to the customer’s DMPK (Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics) group, backed by analytical instrument field support. The service is designed to deliver the recurring oligonucleotide bioanalysis workload while keeping critical LC–MS platforms operational and analytically ready.

Individuals need strong instrument and computer-systems background, enabling user-level repairs, software and operating-system updates, and license administration to be handled in-house and bridging coverage until vendor service engineers can attend site. Individual will flex across bioanalysis and instrument support according to weekly demand, providing a consistent, approachable point of contact for the customer’s scientists and laboratory teams.
Objectives:

• Deliver responsive, on-site oligonucleotide LC–MS bioanalytical support, scaled to the weekly study schedule.
• Maximize uptime and analytical readiness of in-scope LC–MS and supporting laboratory instruments.
• Resolve routine and minor instrument issues at the point of need, bridging coverage until vendor service attends site and reserving vendor engagements for repairs that exceed user-level scope.
• Maintain instrument software, computer systems, operating-system updates, licensing, and version control.
• Provide secondary small-molecule DMPK bioanalytical capacity when oligonucleotide and instrument demands allow.
• Deliver a visible, collaborative presence that integrates with the customer’s scientific and laboratory support teams.

Scope of Service:The primary focus of the service is hands-on oligonucleotide bioanalytical support to the DMPK group, scaled to the volume of work required each week. This capacity is intended to help deliver the recurring portfolio of in-vitro and…