What are the responsibilities and job description for the Associate Scientist position at Planet Pharma?
2-3 Year Contract
$30/hour with some flexibility possible (W2)
Top 3 Must Have Skill Sets:
- Wet lab skills
- Eager to learn
- Comfortable with long lab working hours
Ideal Candidate:
- Someone ready for heavy lab work.
- Minimum of Bachelors' degree & 3 YOE.
- Degree Analytical Chemistry, or Biochemistry
- Experience in a Biopharmaceutical working environment.
- Internships with lab background is ideal.
Day to Day Responsibilities:
- 90% lab work including sample isolation, drying, and testing
Responsibilities include:
- Monitors or follows established experimental design and protocols and performs routine tasks and studies to obtain reproducible and reliable results with limited supervision
- Plans, monitors or conducts, analyzes and records experiments, and provides interpretation of data
- Effectively transfers experimental methods from literature to the lab and makes modifications as necessary
- Develops and implements new protocols with moderate review
- Engages coworkers in scientific discussions
- Communicates data and interpretation to work group
- Skilled at developing systems to ensure quality data
- Skilled and/or knowledgeable in the use of standard laboratory equipment and with one or more major laboratory instruments/techniques
- Effectively trouble-shoots equipment and experimental difficulties
- Contributes to internal/external reports, papers, presentations, regulatory documents, invention disclosure submissions and/or patents
- Participates in department-wide support efforts such as safety, recruiting and committees
- May train staff and/or supervise others
- Coordinates and organizes resources needed to complete the task
- Understands when to seek input and when to make independent judgments
Salary : $30
