Research Associate - Biology - III*

TekWissen LLC

Foster City, CA

JOB DETAILS
SALARY
$40–$48
SKILLS
Asepsis, Auditing, Automation, Biochemistry, Biology, Biotech and Pharmaceutical, Communication Skills, Customer Support/Service, Customer/Client Research, Data Quality, Detail Oriented, Diversity, Drug Development, HIV/AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome), Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, Instrumentation, Interpersonal Skills, Inventory Management, Inventory Reports, Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS), Labware, Logistics, Microsoft Office, Oncology, Organizational Skills, Presentation/Verbal Skills, Progress Reports, Pulmonary Disease, Quality Management, Reconciliation, Research & Development (R&D), Specimens/Samples, Team Player, Time Management, Virology, Workforce Management, Writing Skills
LOCATION
Foster City, CA
POSTED
2 days ago
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.

Position: Research Associate Biologics Inventory Discovery Sciences & Technologies
Location: Foster City, CA 94404
Duration: 5 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite
Job Description
  • We are seeking a dynamic individual to join our Biologics Inventory team to bring a library of legacy biologics current. Discovery Sciences & Technologies (DST) supports lead identification and optimization efforts in Research.
  • This position the Sample Management group is located in a state of the art Research facility at Client's Foster City, CA campus.
  • This is a great opportunity for a lab scientist to use their biology and biochemistry training to help manage our biologics inventory. Our group is highly collaborative, and we support all Client research and exploratory projects across several therapeutic areas including virology, inflammation, oncology, and respiratory disease.
Knowledge, Experience and Skills
  • The successful candidate will use defined workflows to audit our biologics inventory.
  • The audit will include updating sample storage locations and reconciling discrepancies.
  • The role also entails working in a Biological Safety cabinet to reformat individual samples into appropriate labware for long term storage.
  • Familiarity with aseptic technique. Work with biologics entails maintaining proper handling to preserve sample quality.
  • The candidate in this lab-based role should have a strong background in Biology or Biochemistry.
  • Excellent organizational and time management skills are essential.
  • Attention to detail is critical to maintain accurate inventory information.
  • The candidate will work closely with their manager and provide weekly progress reports.
  • Teamwork and excellent verbal and written communication skills are critical.
Key Responsibilities
  • Perform audit of current biologics inventory.
  • Apply rules for reformatting samples and consolidating storage containers as required
  • Record and update inventory daily
  • Use automation, liquid handlers, instrumentation, LIMS, and inventory management tools
  • Accountable to meet established timelines
Education and Experience
  • BS with 2 years experience in Biology, Biochemistry or related discipline
  • Detail oriented, well organized, and possess strong communication and interpersonal skills
  • Strong working knowledge of sample management, sterile technique, and logistics
  • Demonstrated proficiency with sample preparation using various liquid handlers and dispensers (Echo, Bravo, Biomek, i7, etc.)
  • Strong team orientation; highly collaborative and flexible
  • Resourceful and open to diverse points of view
  • Microsoft Office
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.

About the Company

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TekWissen LLC

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.



COMPANY SIZE
100 to 499 employees
INDUSTRY
Computer/IT Services
FOUNDED
2009
WEBSITE
http://www.tekwissen.com/