Scientist – Automation Lab Operations
About The Position
Thermo Fisher Scientific's clinical research business is a leading global contract research organization and world leader in serving science. We are passionate, deliberate, and driven by our mission – to enable our customers to make the world healthier, safer, and cleaner. Our Laboratories Functional Service Partnership (FSP) team plays a direct role in advancing drug development by creating sustained groups of talent within our customers’ organizations to provide long-term support. Through this collaborative approach, our professionals bring their commitment to excellence, industry knowledge, and operational strength directly into customer environments, helping to enhance capabilities and advance the delivery of life-changing therapies.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in lab sciences such as Chemistry, Biochemistry, Material Science, Immunology, Biology, Molecular Biology or similar
- Previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 2+ years’)
- 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
- Masters degree
- In some cases, an equivalency, consisting of a combination of appropriate education, training and/or directly related experience, will be considered sufficient for an individual to meet the requirements of the role.
Responsibilities
- Maintain and ensure the quality control (QC) of existing instrumentation, particularly liquid handling systems, to support effective laboratory operations.
- Focus on maintenance and troubleshooting of instruments.
- Work closely with users to establish and test effective instrument protocols to meet their needs.
- Develop and implement maintenance and QC processes for critical liquid handling instruments including CombinL, Biotek, Echo, Hamilton, and Felix.
- Maintain a centralized repository for QC and maintenance protocols, train end-users, and communicate instrument status updates.
- Coordinate troubleshooting efforts with internal teams and external vendors to restore instrument performance.
- Work with partners to track and communicate instrument downtime.
- Maintain mapped locations of instruments and PCs to support instrumentation, IT, and facilities groups.
- Provide first-line technical support for automated protocols and instrumentation.
- Assist with onboarding and training of scientific end users on existing systems and workflows.
- Work with users to adapt existing protocols or build new workflows to meet their specific needs.
Benefits
- Competitive remuneration
- Annual incentive plan bonus
- Healthcare
- A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs
- Employee assistance and family support programs
- Commuter benefits
- 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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
