Scientist II, Formulation

Job Description

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

Location/Division Specific Information

This position is based in Austin, TX, and will support to the Genetic Sciences Division (GSD).

Discover Impactful Work:

You will supply to the production and testing of various reagents for qPCR and sample preparation applications including master mixes, nucleic acid purification, and internal positive controls for use in various workflows such as veterinary diagnostics, USDA-certified, and custom products. Our team is dynamic and fast-paced, relying on collaboration, multitasking, and communication within the team and the larger organization.  We are seeking an upbeat individual with strong communication, technical, and operational skills to join as Scientist II, Formulation.

A Day in the Life:

• Formulate buffers and other reagents for biotech applications at 100 µL to 2,000 L scale in a clean manufacturing environment
• Ability to lift and/or move objects up to 50 pounds with or without accommodation wearing appropriate PPE including face mask, lab coat, and gloves.
• Isolate and dilute nucleic acids in a manufacturing environment, including RNA and DNA, using pipetting and spectrophotometric techniques.
• Perform quality control testing on buffers and nucleic acids, including pH, conductivity, agarose gels, and nucleic acid purification using magnetic beads and quantification by qPCR.
• Troubleshoot manufacturing and quality control activities and record results in technical reports.
• Revise and edit existing manufacturing protocols; participate in the development of manufacturing protocols for new products.
• Actively participate in Practical Process Improvement (PPI) projects, including kaizens.
• Lead manufacturing metrics aimed at process control and productivity savings.
• Prioritize and schedule work to ensure on-time delivery.
• Accurately and efficiently manage inventory.
• Work collaboratively with peers from your own and other groups.
• Train co-workers in the proper use of instrumentation, manufacturing processes, and manufacturing software.
• Adhere to ISO guidelines, USDA regulations, and Thermofisher Scientific quality policy.
• Adopt a positive demeanor which contributes to a healthy work environment.
• Ability to work with chemicals.
• Other duties as assigned.

Keys to Success:

Education

• Bachelor's degree (B.S.) in Biochemistry or related field

Experience

• 3+ years of related post-undergraduate experience in lab setting.
• Demonstrating good experience with pipettes, PCR, formulation, etc.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Validated ability in operating, troubleshooting, and maintaining complex laboratory equipment
• Detailed understanding of chemical interaction necessary for PCR systems, including interactions of nucleotides, enzymes, oligos, and buffers (pH, ionic concentration).
• Familiarity with troubleshooting techniques including experimental design and statistical quality control.

BENEFITS:

We offer competitive remuneration, annual incentive plan bonus, healthcare, and a range of employee benefits. Thermo Fisher Scientific offers employment with an innovative, forward-thinking organization, and outstanding career and development prospects. We offer an exciting company culture that stands for integrity, intensity, involvement, and innovation.

Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Watch as our colleagues explain 5 reasons to work with us. As one team of 100,000+ colleagues, we share a common set of values - Integrity, Intensity, Innovation and Involvement - working together to accelerate research, solve complex scientific challenges, drive technological innovation and support patients in need. #StartYourStory at Thermo Fisher Scientific, where diverse experiences, backgrounds and perspectives are valued.

Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.

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