Manufacturing Chemist I

Would you like to join an innovative team driven by a bold vision – unleashing tools to accelerate breakthroughs in human health?

Would you like to join an innovative team creating technology to power ground-breaking insights in academic, clinical, pharma and biotech research?

It is an extraordinary time for Standard BioTools. Our technology is empowering customers to improve life through comprehensive health insight. We invite you to join a leading provider of indispensable life sciences tools that is accelerating global research on multiple frontiers of human health.

At Standard BioTools, we are building a positive culture where our people can do the best work of their careers, informed and influenced by our core behaviors:

• Keep customers front and center in all of our work
• Be accountable and deliver on commitments
• Drive continuous improvement
• Be collaborative and work as one team: fostering communications in a learning, coaching, and helpful environment
  
  
  

The Manufacturing Chemist will be responsible for performing a wide variety of manufacturing activities. The Technician will prepare and formulate reagents, perform routine maintenance and troubleshooting on laboratory equipment, and prepare kits for internal and external distribution. Level commensurate with experience.

Key Job Responsibilities:

• Synthesize and purify oligonucleotides
• Prepare and formulate buffers and reagents according to Standard Operating Procedures.
• Assemble assay kits for internal and external distribution.
• Ensure accurate accounting of materials in the inventory management system.
• Perform routine maintenance and limited troubleshooting on general use laboratory equipment, such as balances, pH meters, freezers, vacuum pumps, etc.
• Complete all paperwork as required (batch records, cleaning logs, maintenance logs, etc.) and ensure that all required records and logs are accurately maintained.
• Perform work in compliance with all GMP and EH&S requirements.
• Ensure that work areas are maintained in a well-organized, clean and tidy manner at all times in compliance with established requirements.
  
  
  

Qualifications:

Education

This position requires a Bachelors degree or an Associates degree a minimum of 2 years of relevant experience

Skills And Experience

• Oligonucleotide synthesis experience preferred but not required
• Experience working in a regulated laboratory required, experience in a cGMP environment preferred
• GMP documentation experience, strong attention to detail
• Aliquoting/pipetting, buffer and mix formulation, concentration verification skills required
• Experienced user of Excel spreadsheets and calculations, Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS), ERP or other computerized lab/inventory database
  
  
  

Work Environment:

• Work is in a typical laboratory environment with personal protective equipment use required
• Must be able to lift 25 lbs on a regular basis
  
  
  

Salary range: $24.50 - $26/hour

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