Technical Specialist - Cell Culture

Technical Specialist - Cell Culture Req ID #:  197013 Location: 

High Peak, GB, SK23 6FJ For 75 years, Charles River employees have worked together to assist in the discovery, development and safe manufacture of new drug therapies. When you join our family, you will have a significant impact on the health and well-being of people across the globe. Whether your background is in life sciences, finance, IT, sales or another area, your skills will play an important role in the work we perform. In return, we’ll help you build a career that you can feel passionate about. Technical Specialist - Cell Culture  

Have you got experience in cell culturing and working with multiple cell lines?

Do you want to work for a global contract research organisation that makes a real difference to the health and lives of people?

Are you looking for a new role where you can bring prior experience and lead the way with coordinating cell culturing?

At our site in High Peak, Derbyshire we are recruiting for a Technical Specialist to join the Core Technology team and maintain cell lines and assist in the production of microarray slides.

This role would suit a graduate with industrial experience, or a candidate that is currently working in cell culture. Training is provided.

  What You'll Be Doing  

Routine culture of established cell lines 

Responsibility for the introduction of alternative cell lines 

Coordinate cell production/provision for multiple teams

Maintain quality control procedures

Aliquoting of reagents and maintaining reagent stock levels for multiple teams

Responsible for safe and efficient operation of two cell culture labs

Coordinate and perform mycoplasma testing

Assist with assay development and refinement as required

Involvement in continuous improvement activities related to cell culture

Assist with the organisation of equipment servicing. 

SHE - Adhere to health and safety procedures.

Responsibility for the cleanliness and organisation of cell culture suites - liquid nitrogen stocks, carbon dioxide cylinders, cleaning and maintenance of the cell culture hoods, incubators, water baths, aliquoting and appropriate disposal of waste.

Assisting with Core Technology team activities as required

Scheduling the cell culture production plans will be key to the role along with QC analysis. Being able to work to timelines and the ability to modify workplans is vital.  

  What We Offer You  

This role is a new role within the already established Core Technology team and offers you the chance to bring prior knowledge of cell culturing, managing multiple cell lines and really be part of developing this area with the team. It offers long term opportunities to go into team management and allows for real career development.

A very comprehensive benefits package from day one, including a large pension contribution, private medical, private dental, critical illness cover bonus and more!

The opportunity to get industry standard training and experience.

The chance to work with state-of-the-art equipment in well-resourced laboratories.

Global opportunities and strong career progression.

To be able make a difference to health and wellbeing of people.

  Skills and Qualifications  

As a minimum we would require you to have A Levels in Biology and / or Chemistry

A degree in a related Science subject would be highly advantageous but not essential, as experience is easily substituted for education.

Good organisational, time keeping and communication skills

Experience of Microsoft applications -  Excel, Word, PowerPoint

About Charles River

Charles River is an early-stage contract research organisation (CRO). We have built upon our foundation of laboratory animal medicine and science to develop a diverse portfolio of discovery and safety assessment services, both Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) and non-GLP, to support clients from target identification through preclinical development. Charles River also provides a suite of products and services to support our clients’ clinical laboratory testing needs and manufacturing activities. Utilising this broad portfolio of products and services enables our clients to create a more flexible drug development model, which reduces their costs, enhances their productivity and effectiveness to increase speed to market.

With over 20,000 employees within 110 facilities in 20 countries around the globe, we are strategically positioned to coordinate worldwide resources and apply multidisciplinary perspectives in resolving our client’s unique challenges. Our client base includes global pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology companies, government agencies and hospitals and academic institutions around the world. 

At Charles River, we are passionate about our role in improving the quality of people’s lives. Our mission, our excellent science and our strong sense of purpose guide us in all that we do, and we approach each day with the knowledge that our work helps to improve the health and well-being of many across the globe. We have proudly supported the development of 86% of the drugs approved by the FDA in 2021.

At Charles River Laboratories, we recognize and recruit all talent. We are a company committed to the principle of diversity and inclusion and work daily in this direction.

For more information, please visit www.criver.com.

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