Research Associate - II

Pay Rate: $34 - $36/Hour

Essential Duties and Job Functions:

• Under general supervision, develops and validates bioassays to support biological drug development.
• Plans and executes assigned experiments that support Process Development activities and project goals.
• Proactively seeks out senior personnel to discuss potential solutions to problems.
• Participates in group meetings to share test results.
• Demonstrates ability to recognize anomalous and inconsistent results and interpret experimental outcomes.
• Develops skills in data analysis and ability to evaluate quality of data.
• Operates scientific equipment (Plate reader and Softmax software for ELISA, cell culture techniques), selects appropriate methods and techniques to perform experiments, and prepare related reports
• Plans and organizes details of experiments with guidance.
• Demonstrates good verbal communication skills and interpersonal skills to provide insight into the processes used to achieve results of assigned tasks.
• Be able to work in a fastpaced and highly collaborative working environment.
• Must have basic understanding of ELISA and cell based assays.
• Responsible for data analysis using SoftMax Pro software and graphic display of data using Excel and Power Point presentation formats.

Knowledge, Experience and Skills:

• 2+ years of experience with BS degree in a relevant scientific discipline.
• 1+ years of experience with MS degree in a relevant scientific discipline

Team:

Potency team approx 25 on the entire team; this role will report up to a manager that provides the majority of direction (will not typically taking direction from multiple people)