Laboratory Technician (Media & Buffer Preparation)

Thermo Fisher Scientific • Plainville, MA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer. Our new Bioprocess Design Center is an innovative facility dedicated to demonstrating and training customers on our innovative single-use technologies, Upstream and Downstream solutions, cell culture media, cell lines, resin and analytical offerings. The respective personnel will help the BioProcess Design Center (BDC) with support in experiment execution and general lab upkeep allowing the lab to function more efficiently. This role will accelerate process and product development and enable new innovations in both upstream and downstream processing to be brought to market sooner. They will also have a significant impact on day-to-day lab maintenance activities, as well as bring improvements to the lab’s upkeep and organization.

Requirements

• Associates degree or equivalent experience with good communication and organizational skills
• Good communication and organizational skills
• Solid MS Excel, PowerPoint and Word skills
• Ability to adhere to standard procedures and protocols which are put in place
• Ability to prioritize between tasks in a changing environment
• Ability to write and document relevant tasks in a timely manner
• Ability to work effectively with a wide variety of functional groups
• Ability to organize tasks and work independently
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.
• Must be able to pass a comprehensive background check, which includes a drug screening.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with SAP, Smartsheet, MS Project preferred
• Aseptic technique experiences preferred
• Prior lab experience preferred

Responsibilities

• Assist with chromatography and cell culture experiment execution (20%)
• Maintain all lab equipment, work with facilities, engineering, and outside vendors on preventive maintenance schedule, commissioning new equipment, vendor appointment as and when required and maintain calibration status of all equipment (10%)
• Maintain accurate lab inventory of chemicals, common reagents, assay kits, assay standards, non-stock items, and other general lab consumables. Coordinate stocking needs with local procurement group on site (25%)
• Champion general lab organization and lead 5S for lab workspaces (5%)
• Assist in routine lab tasks, including but not limited to glassware cleaning, stocking supplies, freezer cleanup, periodic defrosting, etc. (15%)
• Work with receiving department to organize shipping and receipt of materials between sites and with client/vendors (5%)
• Work with lab coordinator to track expenses against budget and ensure invoices are paid, in addition to assisting in the annual budget planning process (5%)
• Work with facilities and safety for chemical waste management and tracking site safety metrics (5%)
• Prepare chromatography buffer, formulation buffers, cell culture medium etc. according to buffer sheets with quality and consistency as requested (10%)
• Assistance in sample aliquoting/preparation as needed
• Maintenance of balance weighing, pH meter, and DI water systems as needed

Benefits

• Competitive remuneration
• Annual incentive plan bonus scheme
• Healthcare
• Company 401k
• A range of employee benefits
• Choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs
• Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement
• At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO)
• 10 paid holidays annually
• Paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave)
• Accident and life insurance
• Short- and long-term disability
• Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan
• Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: Associate degree