Lab Assistant

Position Summary

As a Lab Assistant, responsibilities include managing stock levels, adjusting orders for project needs, ensuring safety protocols, collaborating with R&D team members, utilizing ticketing systems for support and inventory management, maintaining equipment, providing technical support to end-users, assisting with equipment purchases and calibration, and contributing to R&D initiatives.

Job Responsibilities

• Manage and support three distinct labs across multiple sites, ensuring lab areas are clean and well organized
• Mange and support standard ordering practices, keeping up with stock levels as well as recognizing when adjustments need to be made due to project needs
• Proefficient in routine lab work such as cell culture, mycoplasma testing, and plasmid preparation
• Be a leader for safety protocols in the lab
• Collaborate with R&D team members to contribute to the team's knowledge-sharing culture
• Utilize ticketing systems such as Jira to request, track, and prioritize support, shipping, and inventory tickets, ensuring timely resolution and effective communication with end-users
• Manage and support maintenance of lab equipment
• Provide first-line technical support to end-users, including troubleshooting equipment, hardware, software, and system issues
• Assist with new equipment purchases and calibration services
• Receive internal shipments and ensure delivery to scientific team members to maintain chain of custody
• Collaborate and maintain good relationships with inter-departmental teams and external vendors
• Participate in R&D projects and initiatives, contributing insights and expertise to improve R&D infrastructure and service delivery

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in biology, chemistry, or related field; OR High School Diploma with 4+ years of relevant work experience
• Prior experience working in an industry lab setting and familiarity with lab consumables and common reagents
• Ability to multitask among multiple projects and teams, and work in a fast-paced, highly interactive environment
• Self-motivated, organized, and capable of troubleshooting independently
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite
• Excellent communication skills with ability to collaborate with colleagues across multiple communication platforms including e-mail, Microsoft Teams, and SharePoint sites

Preferred Education, Experience And Skills

• Relevant knowledge and industrial experience with gene therapy, including AAV and/or lentiviral-based platforms
• Experience running routine lab assays such as cell culture, mycoplasma testing, and plasmid preparations
• Familiar with REES monitoring system for lab equipment