Engineer - Elkton

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Pay rate: $34/Hr Duration: 24 Months - right to hire Education Minimum Requirement: A bachelor's degree in a relevant scientific discipline (biochemistry, chemistry, biology), life sciences, Engineering Required Experience and Skills
• Wet chemistry laboratory skills (pipetting, buffer preparation, filtration, dilution, stoichiometry)
• Proficiency with technical writing and laboratory records (laboratory notebooks, chemical inventory, data management)
• Excellent collaborative and team-working skills
• Strong technical problem-solving abilities, data interpretation and presentation competence

Preferred Experience and Skills :
• Experience working with analytical instrumentation (plate readers, densitometers, thermocyclers, cIEF, UV/Vis spectrophotometers, HPLC/ UPLC systems)
• Experience working with tangential flow filtration processing – microfiltration/ultrafiltration
• Experience working with protein purification
• Experience working with column chromatography and AKTA/Unicorn systems
• Experience performing fermentation or cell culture studies at the labs scale
• Experience performing fermentation or cell culture studies using shake flasks
• Knowledge of yeast fermentation and metabolism
• Experience working in GMP and GLP environments
• Experience with laboratory operations
• Experience with facility operations
• Experience working in an industry environments
• Experience conducting laboratory scale process characterization studies
• Experience troubleshooting technical issues (experimental, equipment-related issues)
• Experience with material characterization
• Experience working with enzymes and peptides
• Experience in method development and method transfer
• Experience with six sigma, 5S principles Responsibilities:
As a member of Process Development, the primary goal of the position is to:
• Characterize proteins, VLPs and constituent components with a variety of analytical techniques
• Participate in/drive fermentation and/or purification of proteins/VLPs at lab and pilot scale
• Provide support for execution of process development activities and manufacturing investigations
• Perform laboratory scale studies
• Design and troubleshoot experiments
• Employ excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Author laboratory notebooks and technical documents
• Work both independently and within multidisciplinary team
• Produce high quality work against firm deadlines
• Maintain good sample handling practices
• Balance and prioritize competing deliverables
• Commit to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace If interested ; kindly get back with details:
Kindly Confirm in which our of 4 areas, you are most proficient and also define your exp in the same 1-supporting upstream Microbial fermentation and cell culture 2-supporting downstream purification and filtration 3- supporting analytical characterization and testing 4- supporting laboratory operations