Purification Technician II

Job Description

Job Summary:

• The Technician II (Purification – SD) purifies custom OligonucleoProduct according to the customer’s order.
• This generally includes the sorting, purification, and QC sampling of the products being made.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Adheres to safety regulations, lab SOPs, and contamination controls.
• Synthesizes custom OligonucleoProduct on various platforms.
• Performs the purification of oligos using various techniques.
• Uses automated and manual lab equipment including limited maintenance and troubleshooting activities.
• Quantifies and samples oligos for quality control tests.
• Assesses QC data accurately and assigns pass/fail dispositions for oligos.
• Ensures that product meets final purity guarantees through the custom purification process.
• Sorts oligos for the proper purification method using software.
• Troubleshoots oligo failures and makes thoughtful sorting and purification decisions.
• Follows and records process steps accurately.
• Demonstrates behavior consistent with the Integrated DNA Technologies Core Values.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Education:

• Associate’s (2 year) degree or comparable combination of education and experience required.
• Bachelor’s (4 year) degree in a science related field (Biology, Chemistry, etc.) preferred.

Experience:

• Proficiency in a variety of PC software programs with strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office required.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to work in a team environment, remaining attentive to ideas, recognizing responsibilities, and actively participating with others to accomplish assignments and achieve desired goals.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Ability to communicate with peers and all levels of management.
• Ability to manage time and work independently.
• Ability to prioritize and organize workload to efficiently accomplish departmental goals.
• Uses aids and SOPs to make decisions about the proper production path per product.
• Ability to perform under stress when confronted with emergent, critical, unusual, or dangerous situations.
• Ability to perform a variety of duties, without loss of efficiency or composure.
• Ability to maintain both a high standard of courtesy and cooperation in dealing with co-workers.
• Ability to accept responsibility for the direction, control, or planning of an activity.
• Adaptability to situations requiring the precise attainment of set limits, tolerances, or standards.
• Ability to perform repetitive work regularly, including capping and labeling test tubes.

Physical Requirements:

• Exert 20-50 lbs. of force occasionally and/or 10-15 lbs. of force frequently Constant (67%-100% of work day) Reaching: extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
• Using Fingers/Grasping/Feeling: writing or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand or arm as in handling.
• Applying pressure to an object with the fingers or palm and perceiving attributes of objects such as size, shape, temperature, or texture by touch.
• Talking: expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken work – those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
• Hearing: perceiving the nature of sounds at normal range; ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make fine discriminations in sound, such as when auscultating and percussing.
• Repetitive Motion: substantial movements (motion) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.
  Frequently (34-66% of work day).
• Sitting: to assume a position in which the weight is largely supported by the buttocks, usually with the body vertical and the thighs Client tally.
• Standing: maintaining an upright position.
• Walking: moving about on foot to accomplish tasks.
• Lifting: raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects Client tally from position to position.
• Bending: bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist and/or bending leg; bending legs at knee to come to rest or kneel.
• Pushing/Pulling: using upper extremities to press products something with steady force to thrust forward, downward or outward/using upper extremities to exert force to drag, haul or tug objects in a sustained motion.
• Occasional (33% or less of work day) Climbing: stairs, stools, ramps, ladders.

Visual Acuity:

• Work requires close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus
• Ability to read pertinent printed material and distinguish colors
• Ability to accurately read measurements on equipment
• Ability to prepare and read written documentation, using a computer.