Highlights
Prepares glassware and steel tanks for sterilization, operates autoclaves, maintains laboratory equipment, monitors laboratory supplies, and supports daily laboratory operations while responding to emergency notifications and working flexible hours, including weekends, as required. 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.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Fremont, CA |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Salary | $25–$27 |
| 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: Formulations Technician II
Location: Fremont, CA 94538
Duration: 12 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite
Shift: Monday to Friday from 06:00 AM to 02:30 PM
Summary:
Manufactures buffers and simple bulk reagents according to manufacturing procedures with limited supervision. Participates in process improvement projects while supporting manufacturing operations. Assists in the manufacture of controls and calibrators and completes batch records in compliance with cGMP requirements. Performs in-process assays using equipment such as spectrophotometers, pH meters, and clinical analyzers. Handles weighing, transferring, and mixing of chemicals, performs product filtrations, and supports cleaning and steaming of steel tanks (CIP). Prepares glassware and steel tanks for sterilization, operates autoclaves, maintains laboratory equipment, monitors laboratory supplies, and supports daily laboratory operations while responding to emergency notifications and working flexible hours, including weekends, as required.
Responsibilities:
- Assist in the manufacture of controls and calibrators.
- Complete batch records in accordance with cGMP requirements.
- Perform in-process assays using spectrophotometers, pH meters, and clinical analyzers.
- Perform weighing, transferring, and mixing of chemicals.
- Perform product filtrations.
- Clean and steam steel tanks using CIP procedures.
- Prepare glassware and steel tanks for sterilization.
- Operate autoclaves for sterilization processes.
- Maintain laboratory equipment, including pumps, pH meters, and flow meters.
- Keep the department lead or manager informed of all operational issues.
- Monitor inventory levels of common laboratory supplies.
- Perform additional job duties as assigned.
- Respond to emergency notifications when required.
- Work flexible schedules, including weekends, as needed.
Required Skills:
- High school diploma or equivalent required and Associates degree is preferred.
- At least 2 years of laboratory experience.
- Basic laboratory skills and knowledge of laboratory safety precautions.
- Familiarity with Quality System Regulations (QSR).
- Experience handling potentially hazardous chemicals and human-source materials.
- Ability to routinely lift up to 25 lbs and occasionally up to 50 lbs.
- Knowledge of and compliance with GMP, QSRs, ISO, and IVD regulations.
- Ability to read, write, and understand English (written and verbal).
- Basic mathematical skills, including addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division using whole numbers, fractions, decimals, and other units of measure.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook.
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.