Chemist

Position Title: Chemist
Work Location:Scarborough ME
Assignment Duration: 05 months
Work Arrangement: Onsite

The position of Technical Manufacturing Chemist within our Infectious Disease Developed. Markets business unit located at Scarborough, Maine. In this role you will produce material for use in immunology-based chromatography and enzyme tests.
This job description will be reviewed periodically and is subject to change by management.

Responsibilities:

• Maintains and supports the production schedule
• Investigates problem areas and areas of desirable improvement
• Undertakes new procedures and observes proper safety precautions
• Responsible for in-process QC testing of manufacturing material as it relates to qualifications, quality inspections and titration.
• Maintains quality systems and proper GMP/GLP
• Creates and follows protocols designed around product improvement
• Responsible for making critical and non-critical bioreagents for use in product and manufacturing processes using Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
• Works in a team setting and coordinates manufacturing efforts based upon a set production schedule and maintaining the raw bioreagent supply as needed to support this schedule.

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree in a Chemistry, Life Sciences, or related field or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Prior Experience in the following areas:

• Pipette
• Spectrophotometry
• HPLC
• pH meters
• Gel Electrophoresis o SDS Page
• ELISA assays

COMPETENCIES:

• Ability to work successfully as a member of a team and independently with moderate supervision.
• Skill in using computer applications including spreadsheet, database, manufacturing, and word processing software.