Analytical Scientist Chromatography

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Job Description

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you'll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world's toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

Position summary

The BioProduction Group (BPG) offers biopharmaceutical customers a complete range of products including single-use technologies, analytical instruments, cell culture media, centrifugation, purification, and analytics.

Within BPG, the Purification and Pharma Analytics business, there is an offering of chromatography media providing down-stream processing solutions for novel biotherapeutics, like viral vectors, mRNA and new antibody formats. The products range from affinity capture using the CaptureSelect ligand technology to ion exchange, hydrophobic interaction and mixed mode chromatography for polish in the purification process of these novel biotherapeutics.

As a scientist in the Chromatography Application Team, you will work in the field of purification of new biotherapeutics to generate application data with the ThermoFisher purification resin portfolio to support our customers and provide compelling data for the marketing team. This will be focused on analytical assays regarding critical quality attributes, like residual host cell protein and DNA assays, viral clearance studies, ELISA and protein assays. In this team you will be working along-side colleagues and employ and develop this variety of techniques.

What will you do?

• Plan and conduct experiments, analyze, and interpret the results.
• Proactively communicate with supervisor and peers as needed to ensure optimal work environment
• Discuss and share the results of research with colleagues through presentations or discussions at team meetings
• Prepare and present experimental data summaries and protocol writing
• Keep up to date with other research being carried out in, or related to, their field of study
• Assist in the interpretation of experiment results
• Align with all company safety regulations and procedures
  
  

Required Education

• A Bachelor or Master in Biology, Biochemistry, or Chemistry
  
  

Experience

• 2-3 years experience with analytical assays in BioProcessing.
• Experience with AKTA's is a pre.
  
  

Knowledge Skills And Abilities

• You can work independently as well as in a team, have strong communication skills, and can organize and prioritize work to meet deadlines.
• You have solid knowledge of the English language.
  
  

We offer competitive pay, annual incentive plan bonus scheme, healthcare, company pension, and a range of employee benefits!