Cell Culture Development Associate; Bioreactors

Cell Culture Development Associate

Our client, a world leader in biotechnology and life sciences, is looking for a Cell Culture Development Associate based out of Philadelphia, PA. Job Duration:
Long Term Contract (Possibility Of Extension) Pay Rate: $42/hr on W2 Company Benefits:
Medical, Dental, Vision, Paid Sick leave, 401K

Primary Duties:

• Culturing mammalian cells in shake flask and bench top bioreactors.
• Support lab operational activities for rAAV cell culture studies in stirred tank bioreactors including AMBR
  15 and/or AMBR
  250 bioreactors.
• Execution of molecular biology experiments including SDS-PAGE/western blotting, plasmid cloning etc.
• Execute experimental designs; collect and format data for analyses in support of technical platform development objectives.
• Compile data analysis summaries and present to appropriate project teams.
• Contribute to the authoring of lab procedures, data analysis summaries, and support data verification and other relevant process documentation.
• Maintaining an accurate laboratory notebook following ALCOA+ principles.
• Ensuring work conforms to applicable quality and safety standards.
• Support maintenance and troubleshooting of laboratory equipment.

Education and Experience:

B.S. in chemical engineering, chemistry, biochemistry, or biology/molecular biology or related area with 0 – 4 years of relevant scientific or technical experience in the life sciences industry or equivalent. Comfortable working with instrumentation and technologies in support of cell culture process monitoring. Digital data proficiency a plus. Experience with aseptic suspension cell culture methods, including sterile media and solution preparation is preferred.

Experience in molecular biology techniques (eg: SDS-PAGE/western blotting, plasmid cloning, gene expression assays, etc) is preferred. Experience with viral vector production is preferred, but not essential.

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