Highlights
The ideal candidate brings strong hands on laboratory skills, deep familiarity with HTP purification methods, and the ability to establish, troubleshoot, and refine automated workflows. Expertise developing and executing HTP purification assays, including automated liquid handling systems such as Tecan, Hamilton, and microscale chromatography platforms.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Oceanside, CA |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Salary | $47–$53 |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2009 |
| Website | http://www.tekwissen.com/ |
Description
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. The below job opportunity is with one of our Biotech clients who researches develop and commercializes drugs. The company focuses primarily on antiviral drugs used in the treatment of HIV, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and influenza, including Harvoni and Sovaldi.
Job Title: Associate Scientist
Location: Oceanside, CA
Duration: 12 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite
Job Description:
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We are seeking a highly motivated Associate Scientist to support purification process development during pivotal and commercial development phases. This contract role focuses on high throughput purification of upstream/cell culture samples and supports downstream purification characterization studies. A core part of this role is the development and optimization of high throughput purification assays using state of the art automation platforms (e.g., Tecan, Hamilton). The ideal candidate brings strong hands on laboratory skills, deep familiarity with HTP purification methods, and the ability to establish, troubleshoot, and refine automated workflows.
Key Responsibilities
High Throughput Purification & Automation
- Execute high throughput purification (HTP) workflows for upstream/cell culture samples to support process characterization.
- Operate, optimize, and maintain automated liquid handling systems such as Hamilton and Tecan platforms.
- Develop, qualify, and refine HTP purification assays and microscale purification methods.
- Collaborate with upstream teams to ensure timely sample processing and data delivery.
Purification Process Development
- Contribute to experimental design and execute purification process development and characterization experiments.
- Conduct bench scale purification studies using chromatography, filtration, and microscale systems.
- Collect, analyze, and interpret experimental data in compliance with data integrity expectations.
- Prepare high quality protocols, reports, and electronic laboratory notebook documentation.
Technical Excellence & Collaboration
- Support implementation of new purification technologies, instrumentation, and platform enhancements.
- Maintain a state of the art purification lab, including instrumentation readiness and workflow improvements.
- Partner with upstream, downstream, and cross functional colleagues as needed on development and characterization initiatives.
- Follow all compliance, training, and safety requirements.
Qualifications / Skills / Experience
- M.S. with 2+ years or B.S. with 4+ years of relevant industry experience in chemical engineering, biochemistry, bioengineering, or related discipline.
- Expertise developing and executing HTP purification assays, including automated liquid handling systems such as Tecan, Hamilton, and microscale chromatography platforms.
- Experience with chromatography (e.g., AKTA, plate based), filtration, and standard downstream techniques.
- Strong analytical, documentation, and problem solving skills.
- Ability to work both independently and in collaborative, fast paced environments.
- Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
About Company
WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE
TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.
To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.
Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.
It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.
Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.