R&D Technician
Job Description
Job Summary:
- This position offers the candidate an excellent opportunity to learn alongside the innovative and disruptive Fermentation and Biotechnology team and will be instrumental in delivering new research platform initiatives across client’s product categories.
- The candidate will primarily support the natural preservation team, performing microbiology benchwork.
- This individual must have a proven strong technical background, intellectual curiosity, problem solving and project management skills.
- He or she will progress internal research initiatives, while supporting external research collaboration programs.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Work with scientists to understand needs of upcoming experiments, prepare microbiological media and other items necessary to complete experiments.
- Assist with experiment planning, setup, and teardown of scientific equipment, including bioreactors.
- Run and maintain analytical equipment to analyze experimental outputs.
- Record and report data generated through bench and pilot experiments.
- Conduct bench top and pilot plant trials to explore and optimize formulations and processes.
- Assist scientists in keeping the lab clean and organized.
Education and Experience:
- High school diploma required, B.S. in Microbiology, Food Science, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology or related fields preferred.
- 1–3 years of prior microbiology laboratory experience.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Strong organization, verbal and written communication, and data recording skills.
- Ability to learn quickly and work independently.
- Ability to prioritize, multitask, and manage complexity in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong out of the box thinker on solving technical problems.
- Demonstrated record of conducting research projects either individually and or in collaboration with other teams.
- Demonstrate ability to deal with ambiguity.
- Possess technical /intellectual curiosity.
- Demonstrated strong work ethic and enthusiasm for hands-on research.