Process Development & Improvement Scientist
Medgene · Brookings, SD · 3 wk ago
Full-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections for headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. Must not repeat job title as heading. Must not include Job ID etc. Must preserve all substantive info, not invent or summarize away detail. Remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, application instructions. Also remove lines like "Medgene Labs does not anticipate providing sponsorship for employment visa status..." maybe that's part of qualifications? It's a requirement: must be legally authorized to work in US, no sponsorship. That's a qualification. Keep that.
We need to parse the posting.
Company description: "Process Development & Improvement Associate Scientist or Scientist Medgene Labs helps veterinarians and producers protect livestock with precisely constructed immunological products and services. Applying a strategy of continual diagnostic surveillance and data analytics to the practice of immunology, creating vaccines for the disease at hand quicker and more precisely than previously possible. Medgene Labs has a single mission: To be a world-class Immunological Services Provider™ for leading livestock producers and their veterinarians. If you're looking to join a collaborative, mission-driven team that's making a real difference in animal health and beyond, we'd love to hear from you! Company Description VST, LLC dba Medgene is a technology and manufacturing company based in Brookings, South Dakota that is inspiring the world to prevent emerging and zoonotic diseases for a better life. This involves helping veterinarians and animal owners improve animal welfare with immunological products and services. Applying a strategy of continuous diagnostic surveillance and bioinformatics to the practice of immunology, Medgene creates vaccines for emerging diseases faster and more precisely. Medgene's mission is to serve as a world-class Immunological Services Provider™ to animal care providers."
We can combine into an "About the role" or maybe "About the company". The instruction says use headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. So we need to map content.
Position Summary: "Medgene Labs seeks a Process Development and Improvement Associate Scientist who will be responsible for executing process development and improvement studies for the manufacture of recombinant proteins. Experience preferred in protein production, cell culture techniques, and/or fermentation/recombinant bacterial techniques. Coordination and cooperation with other teams are essential. The position requires the ability to write, read, and understand standard operating procedures and be able to execute the procedures. Good documentation practices are required while documenting the work that is being performed."
That could go under About the role (or Responsibilities). Usually About the role is a brief summary. We'll put that under
About the role
with a. Job Duties list: many bullet points. Those are responsibilities. So we will have
Responsibilities
with- each duty.
Minimum Qualifications: list of knowledge, abilities. That's qualifications. Also there is "Previous experience with fermentation and/or cell culture, chromatography, or other downstream processing techniques is preferred, but not required." That's a qualification/preferred.
Also "Must be legally authorized to be employed in the United States. Medgene Labs does not anticipate providing sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g. H-1B, or TN status) for this position." That's a qualification.
Also "Operation of basic laboratory equipment. Basic level knowledge and understanding of laboratory safety procedures. Aseptic Techniques and good laboratory practices. Good Documentation Practices. Ability To Follow specific procedures. Work safely with infectious materials and specimens. Operate scientific equipment and computers. Establish and maintain effective working relationships with others. Keep detailed and accurate documentation. Maintain a safe work environment for self and other employees at all times." Those are skills/requirements.
We need to separate Requirements vs Qualifications vs Skills. The instruction says we can have sections for Requirements, Qualifications, Skills. We need to decide what goes where. Typically Requirements are mandatory qualifications; Qualifications could be education; Skills could be abilities. But we must not create sections with filler. We need to ensure each section has real specific content.
We have:
- About the role: position summary.
- Responsibilities: job duties list.
- Requirements: maybe "Must be legally authorized to be employed in the United States. Medgene Labs does not anticipate providing sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g. H-1B, or TN status) for this position." plus maybe "BS in Biochemistry, Microbiology, or Associate with relevant experience". That's a minimum qualification.
- Qualifications: maybe "Previous experience with fermentation and/or cell culture, chromatography, or other downstream processing techniques is preferred, but not required." plus "Knowledge of: BS in Biochemistry, Microbiology, or Associate with relevant experience" (but that's same as requirement). Might be overlapping.
- Skills: list of abilities: operation of basic lab equipment, safety, aseptic, GDoc, follow procedures, work with infectious materials, operate equipment/computers, relationships, documentation, safe work environment.
We need to avoid duplication. Let's extract unique items.
From Minimum Qualifications block:
"Knowledge of: BS in Biochemistry, Microbiology, or Associate with relevant experience"
"Must be legally authorized to be employed in the United States. Medgene Labs does not anticipate providing sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g. H-1B, or TN status) for this position."
"Previous experience with fermentation and/or cell culture, chromatography, or other downstream processing techniques is preferred, but not required."
"Operation of basic laboratory equipment."
"Basic level knowledge and understanding of laboratory safety procedures."
"Aseptic Techniques and good laboratory practices."
"Good Documentation Practices."
"Ability To Follow specific procedures."
"Work safely with infectious materials and specimens."
"Operate scientific equipment and computers."
"Establish and maintain effective working relationships with others."
"Keep detailed and accurate documentation."
"Maintain a safe work environment for self and other employees at all times."
Also from Job Duties list we have many items; those are responsibilities.
We need to ensure we don't miss any substantive info from job duties.
Job Duties list (as in text):
- Read and understand SOPs and Protocols.
- Maintains records detailing adherence to established policies.
- Follow study protocols under the direction of the supervisor.
- Execute experiments in small-scale bioreactors and fermenters to optimize expression and product quality of recombinant biologics.
- Maintain detailed and accurate laboratory notebooks/batch records.
- Maintain aseptic technique procedures.
- Preparation of buffers, growth media, and solutions.
- Help maintain laboratory equipment, supplies, and a clean/safe working environment.
- Assist with production activities as needed.
- Work with Production on transfer of products and methods.
- Produce experimental veterinary vaccines in compliance with CVB guidelines and regulations.
- Maintains appropriate records commensurate with CVB guidelines.
- Ensures high-quality production standards from culture through bottling.
- Ensure security of Master Seed, Unreleased, and Released Products.
- Assist with creating the conditions for increasing productivity by analyzing and improving existing processes as well as improving technology transfers and minimizing losses.
- Performs other work as assigned.
Also earlier: "Experience preferred in protein production, cell culture techniques, and/or fermentation/recombinant bacterial techniques." That's from position summary.
Now we need to decide sections.
We could do:
About the role
Medgene Labs seeks a Process Development and Improvement Associate Scientist who will be responsible for executing process development and improvement studies for the manufacture of recombinant proteins. Experience preferred in protein production, cell culture techniques, and/or fermentation/recombinant bacterial techniques. Coordination and cooperation with other teams are essential. The position requires the ability to write, read, and understand standard operating procedures and be able to execute the procedures. Good documentation practices are required while documenting the work that is being performed.
Responsibilities
- Read and understand SOPs and Protocols. ... etc.
Requirements
- BS in Biochemistry, Microbiology, or Associate degree with relevant experience.
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States; Medgene Labs does not anticipate providing sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H-1B, TN).
Qualifications
- Previous experience with fermentation and/or cell culture, chromatography, or other downstream processing techniques is preferred but not required.
Skills
- Operation of basic laboratory equipment.
- Basic knowledge of laboratory safety procedures.
- Aseptic technique and good laboratory practices.
- Good documentation practices.
- Ability to follow specific procedures.
- Work safely with infectious materials and specimens.
- Operate scientific equipment and computers.
- Establish and maintain effective working relationships with others.
- Keep detailed and accurate documentation.
- Maintain a safe work environment for self and other employees.