Highlights
The successful candidate will help maintain laboratory operations, ensure instrument readiness, support laboratory users, and contribute to a collaborative environment focused on scientific excellence. This individual will play an important role in supporting the daily operations of a high-performing core laboratory that serves Client's Oncology, Inflammation, and Virology discovery programs.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Foster City, CA |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Salary | $39.57 |
| 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.
Position: Research Associate
Location: Foster City, CA
Duration: 6 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite
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
Location: Foster City, CA
Duration: 6 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite
Job Description:
What We're Looking For
- We are seeking a highly collaborative and motivated individual who is eager to learn, adaptable in a fast-paced environment, and committed to providing excellent support to researchers.
- The ideal candidate will be resourceful, customer-focused, and passionate about maintaining a laboratory that enables high-quality scientific research.
- Join us and contribute to a core facility that supports innovative research across multiple therapeutic areas while building valuable expertise in flow cytometry and laboratory operations.
About the Role
- Client is seeking a highly motivated and detail-oriented Research Associate to join the Flow Cytometry Core within the Research organization.
- This individual will play an important role in supporting the daily operations of a high-performing core laboratory that serves Client's Oncology, Inflammation, and Virology discovery programs.
- The successful candidate will help maintain laboratory operations, ensure instrument readiness, support laboratory users, and contribute to a collaborative environment focused on scientific excellence.
- While prior flow cytometry experience is desirable, comprehensive training will be provided to develop and expand the successful candidate's technical expertise.
- This is a temporary position designed to support ongoing laboratory activities and operational excellence within the Flow Cytometry Core
Key Responsibilities
- Perform routine instrument calibration, quality control, preventative maintenance, and troubleshooting of flow cytometry equipment.
- Coordinate with field service engineers and vendors to resolve instrument issues and maintain system performance.
- Conduct daily, weekly, and monthly instrument cleaning and QC procedures.
- Support laboratory operations through inventory management, reagent ordering, stocking, and general laboratory upkeep.
- Assist with instrument scheduling, appointment coordination, and user support activities.
- Maintain accurate records of maintenance, quality control, and laboratory procedures.
- Communicate effectively with scientists, laboratory staff, vendors, and cross-functional collaborators.
- Adhere to laboratory safety requirements, standard operating procedures, and quality standards.
Qualifications Required
- Bachelor's degree in Biology, Immunology, Cell Biology, Biomedical, or a related scientific discipline.
- Excellent organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills.
- Strong computer skills and proficiency with Windows-based systems.
- Ability to learn new software, hardware, and laboratory technologies.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently while collaborating effectively in a team environment.
- Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
Preferred
- Experience working in an industry laboratory, research environment, or flow cytometry core facility.
- Familiarity with flow cytometry instrumentation and laboratory operations.
- Basic knowledge of cell biology, immunology, and cell-based assays.
- Experience troubleshooting scientific instrumentation and applying established protocols to resolve technical issues.
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.