R&D Scientist II

R&D Scientist II

The R&D Scientist II provides technical and scientific leadership to support new product development, troubleshooting and optimization of process and analytical methods, and technical communications with customers and suppliers. Identifies and implements new methods, equipment, and technologies. Effectively performs the following duties:

• New product development with the assistance of more experienced R&D Scientists: evaluates published literature and provides technical and economic analysis of product feasibility, performs experimental work to develop, optimize, scale up, and validate new production or analytical procedures, creates documents (SOPs, protocols, reports) needed for implementation of the new processes, and assists in scale up and transfer of new processes to other departments.
• Learns and performs design control procedures and documentation.
• Troubleshooting and optimization: assists production and other departments with troubleshooting problematic production issues. Also assists with production scale up of new and old processes.
• Implements scale up of new processes and potential scale up for current processes.
• Identification and implementation of new technology. Reads scientific and trade journals, communicates with suppliers and sources of new technology, attends seminars, webinars, and other presentations to identify new methods, equipment, and technologies.
• Assists other employees as necessary. Examples include protein purification and analysis, calibration and preventive maintenance of equipment and facility, and filling of orders.
• Affirms that all work is properly recorded and signed off in lab notebooks, batch records, worksheets, or other appropriate documents.

Other Duties

• Complies with all safety protocols
• Performs other assigned duties

Qualifications

• Education/Experience: B.A. in a related field from an accredited college or university plus at least five years’ experience or master’s degree with three years’ experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by and employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. The employee is frequently required to stand, walk, use hands, reach with hands and arms and talk and hear. The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Reasoning Ability: Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
• Communication: Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.
• Math Ability: Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume. Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry. Able to use routine chemistry formulas.
• Equipment Used: Balances, Centrifuges, Chromatography columns, pumps, fraction collectors, and monitors; Clinical chemistry analyzer, Filtration and ultra-filtration equipment; Gel electrophoresis and blotting equipment, Laminar flow hood, Lyophilizers, Mixers; Multiwell plate reader, Personal computer, pH and conductivity meters, Pipettes; Tissue homogenizers, grinders, and blenders; UV-VIS spectrophotometers and other equipment as needed or directed.
• Work Environment: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to wet or humid conditions (nonweather); work near moving mechanical parts; fumes or airborne particles and toxic or caustic chemicals. The employee is occasionally exposed to work in high, precarious places; outdoor weather conditions; extreme cold (non-weather); extreme heat (non-weather); risk of electrical shock and vibration. The noise level in the work environment is moderate.

About Medix Biochemica

A truly global company with a proudly Finnish background, we’ve dedicated decades to serving the IVD industry. We are passionate about innovation and delivering quality to our customers and people. As part of our We Care value, we strive for a diverse culture of inclusion and belonging. We come from all around the world and have employees in many different countries. This means our team speaks many different languages. Our employees also have diverse professional backgrounds and education. Some have been with us for only a few months while, others have been here for over 40 years. We strive for a diverse culture where everyone can be their true selves at work - making a difference in the success of the company and the world around us.