Job Description
Job Details: Biologist II
Location: Worcester, MA
Duration: 12+ Months
What are the top 3-5 skills, experience or education required for this position:
- Strong biological scientific understanding.
- Experience with chromatography and filtration for biologics purification
- Experience with bioanalytical assays and methods preferred
Years of experience/education and/or certifications required:
BS - Chemical Engineering, Biochemistry, or Chemistry with 3-5 yrs. experience
Work Schedule (Define days,# of hours)/ Is Overtime offered or required?
Monday - Friday, 8 hrs/day. No overtime
Job Description
This position is in the Biologics Purification Development team of the Product Development Science & Technology department. The candidate will be involved with all aspects of protein purification and protein chemistry to support biopharmaceutical process development.
Responsibilities, under the supervision of a Scientist II include:
- Execute high through put scale down robotic purification as part of early and late stage process development, viral clearance, process characterization, and continuous process improvement studies.
- Perform basic data acquisition and analysis, and documentation in electric lab notebooks.
- Will develop economical, robust steps for recovering the target protein from bioreactor harvests using chromatography, filtration, and other separation techniques; developing downstream purification processes to be transferred to manufacturing; and perform laboratory scale process characterization studies.
- Perform various bioanalytical assays, including HPLC, ELISAs and SDS-PAGE, to aid in rapid process development.
- The candidate must possess strong written, oral, and collaborative skills in order to effectively communicate experimental procedures and results.
- As appropriate, the candidate may supply technical support for pilot and/or GMP manufacturing of clinical materials.
EEO
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