Job Description:
Company Description
Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins works with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate.
Eurofins believes it is a global leader in food, environmental, pharmaceutical and cosmetics products testing and in agroscience CRO services. It is also one of the global independent market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, CDMO, advanced material sciences and in the support of clinical studies.
In over just 30 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to over 50,000 staff across a network of more than 900 independent companies in over 50 countries and operating more than 800 laboratories. Eurofins offers a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products, as well as providing innovative clinical diagnostic testing services, as one of the leading global emerging players in specialized clinical diagnostics testing.
In 2021, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR € 6.7 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.
Job Description
Become your most extraordinary self! Our team is intensely proud to be a major provider of services and products to the drug discovery research industry. Join Eurofins DiscoverX Corporation part of the Eurofins Discovery ™ group of companies serving global clients in the Pharma and Biotech industries. Work alongside industry experts and collaborate with team members to directly and positively impact human health worldwide!
We have a philosophy to support work life balance, career progression opportunities and offer many benefits such as formal mentoring programs, tuition reimbursement, extensive career training programs, competitive health benefits, paid time off and 10 annual paid holidays*.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Responsible for screening cell-based assays in an operations setting using plate reader such as EnVision or FLIPR instrumentation, liquid handling, and other lab automation.
- Serves as the primary point of contact and lead for assigned assay sets, responsible for developing the weekly assay schedule and independently executing assays with minimal supervision.
- Co-ordinate multiple projects simultaneously. This includes efforts for a bi-weekly large-scale safety pharmacology panel, routinely scheduled screens, HTS campaigns, and ad-hoc requests.
- Ability to maintain all (25+) cell lines needed for the operation and providing screening plates or assays ready cells according to the business needs.
- Maintain inventory of bulk vials to sustain the business continuity.
- Support compound management by utilizing acoustic dispensing (Echo or ATS).
- In charge of optimizing screening assays to improve TAT.
- Coordinate cross-site screening facility efforts
- Set up training for new employees, establish and curate SOPs and routine QC.
- Heavily involved in data management. Optimize workflow and remedy error prone steps. Understand data management in CBIS.
- Independently analyze screening results, provide initial data QC using Spotfire or other data visualization tools. Perform large-scale data analysis and generate customer reports.
- Maintains accurate and organized records for all assay related work
- Demonstrates and promotes the company vision.
- Conducts all activities in a safe and efficient manner.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
- Owns the accountability and responsibility of delivering to client needs and timeliness.
- Provides cross-functional support to other departments as required.
- Adjusts work hours as needed to meet client deadlines.
- Adheres to site employee health and safety (EHS) requirements.
Qualifications
- BSc in biological sciences with 2-5 years of relevant experience. Experience working in an operations type screening lab maintaining mammalian cell lines is required. Experience performing and analyzing quantitative cell-based and/or biochemical assays is required.
- Experience with data management, including databases; assay troubleshooting experience. Maintains accurate and organized records for assay.
- Skilled in mammalian cell culture, biochemical and/or cell-based assay design, execution, and analysis. Skilled with data management and analysis software (i.e. Excel/GraphPad Prism or similar). Outstanding oral and written communication skills. Excellent scheduling skills
- Skilled in assay troubleshooting and data management.
Additional Information
Pay Rate Range: $29 - $34/hr.
The position is full-time, Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.- 5 p.m., with overtime as needed.
- Excellent full time benefits including comprehensive medical coverage, dental, and vision options
- Life and disability insurance
- 401(k) with company match
- Paid vacation and holidays
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