Research Support Specialist - Temporary
About The Position
The W.M. Keck Metabolomics Research Laboratory is seeking a Temporary Research Support Specialist to provide technical, analytical, and operational support for metabolomics and small molecule analysis projects. The position will assist laboratory staff with urgent instrumentation maintenance, high priority project coordination, data analysis, crucial method and platform devolvement and onboarding, and general laboratory operations as needed. The individual will support metabolomics research activities in a fee for service core facility using advanced analytical instrumentation. The position will help boost laboratory operations, improve analytical workflows, and expand laboratory capacity through method optimization, preventive maintenance, and operational improvements. This temporary position provides flexible support across instrumentation maintenance, analytical method development/onboarding, project coordination, data analysis, and laboratory administration. The role is designed to strengthen and recover laboratory operations while advancing new and existing analytical methodologies and improving overall laboratory efficiency. The individual will have strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to manage multiple projects and priorities simultaneously. They will also have effective written and verbal communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively with faculty, staff, students, and external researchers.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Biochemistry, Chemistry, Molecular Biology, Biology, Analytical Chemistry, Bioinformatics, or a related scientific discipline.
- Experience working in a research or analytical laboratory environment.
- Experience with analytical instrumentation and associated software platforms.
- Experience with scientific data analysis, data management, or research workflows.
- Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. on an ongoing basis without sponsorship.
Nice To Haves
- Ph.D. in Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Analytical Chemistry, Bioinformatics, or a related field.
- Experience operating, maintaining, troubleshooting, and optimizing analytical instrumentation, including GC-MS, HPLC, LC-MS, GC-FID, or related platforms.
- Experience processing, analyzing, and interpreting mass spectrometry or chromatography data.
- Experience with metabolomics, lipidomics, amino acid analysis, or related small-molecule analytical workflows.
- Experience supporting collaborative research projects and communicating technical findings to diverse scientific audiences.
- Experience developing, documenting, validating, or improving analytical methods and standard operating procedures.
- Experience with inventory management, laboratory operations, training, or user support in a shared or core research facility environment.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical, analytical, and operational support for metabolomics and small molecule analysis projects.
- Assist laboratory staff with urgent instrumentation maintenance.
- Assist with high priority project coordination.
- Assist with data analysis.
- Assist with crucial method and platform devolvement and onboarding.
- Assist with general laboratory operations as needed.
- Boost laboratory operations.
- Improve analytical workflows.
- Expand laboratory capacity through method optimization, preventive maintenance, and operational improvements.
- Provide flexible support across instrumentation maintenance, analytical method development/onboarding, project coordination, data analysis, and laboratory administration.
- Strengthen and recover laboratory operations.
- Advance new and existing analytical methodologies.
- Improve overall laboratory efficiency.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Part-time
Career Level
Entry Level
