Highlights
This role involves weighing and compounding raw materials, operating milling and blending equipment, performing sterile filtration and aseptic liquid filling, and conducting routine product quality testing. The ideal candidate will have experience in a fast-paced chemistry laboratory or manufacturing environment, with knowledge of Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), batch record documentation, equipment calibration, and laboratory testing procedures.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Sunnyvale, CA |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Salary | $20–$23 |
| 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 clients worldwide. The job opportunity below is with one of our clients specializing in biotechnology product development services. The client is dedicated to supplying laboratory equipment, chemicals, supplies, and services essential in healthcare, scientific research, safety, and education. As a global leader in serving the scientific community, the organization generates approximately $40 billion in annual revenue and is committed to making the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. Their global team delivers innovative technologies, convenient procurement solutions, and pharmaceutical services through industry-leading brands.
Position: Cell Culture Technician
Location: Sunnyvale, CA, 94085
Duration: 12 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite
Location: Sunnyvale, CA, 94085
Duration: 12 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite
Shift: Monday To Friday from 06:00 AM To 02:30 PM
Summary:
We are seeking a detail-oriented Cell Culture Technician / Media Manufacturing Technician I to support the production of dehydrated and liquid cell culture media in a regulated manufacturing environment. This role involves weighing and compounding raw materials, operating milling and blending equipment, performing sterile filtration and aseptic liquid filling, and conducting routine product quality testing.
The ideal candidate will have experience in a fast-paced chemistry laboratory or manufacturing environment, with knowledge of Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), batch record documentation, equipment calibration, and laboratory testing procedures. The position requires close collaboration with Manufacturing, R&D, Quality, Procurement, and other cross-functional teams to ensure efficient production while maintaining quality and safety standards.
Responsibilities:
- Perform manufacturing activities for dehydrated and liquid cell culture media in accordance with established GMP procedures, batch records, and production schedules.
- Stage, weigh, and compound raw materials ranging from microgram to kilogram quantities while maintaining specified weight tolerances.
- Operate manufacturing equipment used for milling, blending, sterile filtration, and aseptic liquid filling.
- Monitor manufacturing processes and accurately document production activities, process parameters, and batch records.
- Conduct routine product quality testing, including pH, osmolality, and turbidity measurements.
- Operate laboratory instruments such as pipettors, analytical balances, osmometers, turbidimeters, and pH meters.
- Perform equipment cleaning, inspection, calibration, and routine maintenance activities.
- Troubleshoot equipment issues and assist in disassembly and reassembly of manufacturing equipment as required.
- Maintain accurate and complete manufacturing documentation, equipment logs, and testing records in compliance with GMP.
- Handle raw materials according to established GMP, safety, and departmental procedures.
- Follow standard operating procedures (SOPs), testing instructions, and inspection requirements to ensure product quality.
- Collaborate with R&D, Quality, Procurement, Process Technology, and other internal teams to support manufacturing operations.
- Maintain a clean, safe, and organized work environment while following all workplace safety policies.
- Support team communication, continuous operational efficiency, and timely completion of assigned production activities.
- Work overtime as required to meet production schedules and business needs.
- Perform additional manufacturing and laboratory support duties as assigned.
Required Skills:
- Bachelor's degree in Chemistry, Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Biology, Chemical Engineering, Microbiology, or a related scientific discipline.
- An equivalent combination of education, training, and relevant work experience may be considered.
- Minimum 6 months of experience in a fast-paced chemistry laboratory or manufacturing facility is required.
- Basic hands-on experience weighing and measuring multiple raw material components with accuracy.
- Familiarity with GMP-regulated manufacturing processes, batch record documentation, and standard operating procedures.
- Ability to read, understand, and follow laboratory testing, inspection, and manufacturing instructions.
- Knowledge of laboratory equipment such as balances, pipettors, pH meters, osmometers, and turbidimeters.
- Mechanical aptitude with the ability to disassemble, reassemble, clean, and troubleshoot manufacturing equipment.
- Ability to maintain neat, accurate, and complete production records, equipment logs, and quality documentation.
- Basic computer proficiency, including Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
- Experience with statistical analysis tools such as Microsoft Excel or Minitab is highly desirable.
- Strong attention to detail, organizational skills, and commitment to product quality.
- Good written and verbal communication skills with the ability to work independently and collaboratively.
- Ability to follow safety procedures and maintain compliance with GMP and departmental standards.
- Flexibility to work overtime and accommodate changing production schedules.
- Physical Requirement: Must be able to lift or move approximately 40 lbs.
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.