Scientist - ELISA, GLP, GMP

Thermo Fisher Scientific • Worcester, MA

3d • Onsite

About The Position

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life - enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research, development and delivery of life-changing therapies. With clinical trials conducted in 100+ countries and ongoing development of novel frameworks for clinical research through our PPD clinical research portfolio, our work spans laboratory, digital and decentralized clinical trial services. Your determination to deliver quality and accuracy will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on – now and in the future. Thermo Fisher'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. Within our Analytical Services team, we have a functional service provider solution, which is a unique partnership that allows our customers to leverage the experience of our staff, while allowing you, the employee, to gain direct experience working onsite at a pharmaceutical/ biopharmaceutical company, all while maintaining full-time benefits.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in lab sciences such as Chemistry, Biochemistry, Immunology, Chemistry, Biology, Molecular Biology or similar
• Previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 2-4 years) or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
• The candidate must possess strong written, oral, and collaborative skills to effectively communicate experimental procedures and results.

Nice To Haves

• Sound scientific understanding of ELISA technology to effectively interpret and troubleshoot is desirable.
• GLP experience, GMP experience is a plus.
• Validation experience.
• Experiences in electronic lab notebooks and data management tools is a plus.
• Basic knowledge in related functional areas, such as cell culture and protein purification are a plus.
• Demonstrated record of independent thinking, creativity, and scientific accomplishments.

Responsibilities

• Sample preparation involving consistent pipetting and attention to detail
• Performance of enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISAs) to monitor impurities and to assess antigen binding.
• Performance of basic data acquisition and statistical analysis with clear and concise documentation in electronic lab notebooks.
• Reporting experimental results to stakeholders in a clear and concise manner to help inform project decisions

Benefits

• A 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, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy
• 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: Mid Level