Job Title: Associate Scientist I

Job Duration: 6 Months Contract – W2

Job Location: Pittsburgh, PA 15044

Position Summary:

The Associate Scientist is primarily a training scientist who will complete training in at least one (1) technical offering.

Significant Responsibilities & Accountabilities:

• Complete training on at least one (1) technical offering. Example technical offerings are manual foreign particulate analysis, automated particulate analysis, guided analyses, CCIT, glass delamination, etc.
• Aids technical leads in data collection, report writing, sample preparation, and data interpretation as training progresses.
• Become familiar with Gateway Analytical SOPs, work instructions, test methods, and quality drivers.
• Aids the lab in maintaining quality KPIs including on time reporting and report accuracy.
• Maintains, cleans, or sterilizes laboratory instruments or equipment
• Orders and inventories materials to maintain supplies.
• Once training in a technical area is completed the scientist will be responsible for:
• Maintaining project load
• Preparing and analysing samples
• Interpreting data
• Reporting
• Shadow and take part in customer communications to include email, calls, and meetings as needed.
• Aid upper-level scientists and management in documentation and testing as needed for annual preventative maintenance and qualifications of instrumentation.
• Aid upper-level scientists and management in bringing new instrumentation and methods online.

Minimum Qualifications Required:

• Education: Bachelor’s Degree in a Natural Science or equivalent experience.

• Experience: Relevant experience may be substituted for education.

• Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities: A keen interest in a fast-paced scientific learning environment with an emphasis on applying new skills, good written and oral communication skills, vast laboratory equipment knowledge, basic word processing skills, team-oriented work ethic, and procedural skills for the use of various laboratory instrumentation.

Job Type: Contract

Pay: $18.00 - $20.00 per hour

Expected hours: 40 per week

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Morning shift

Education:

• Bachelor's (Preferred)

Experience:

• Lab Technician/Lab Instrumentation/Laboratory equipment: 2 years (Preferred)
• Data collection/Reporting/Research: 2 years (Preferred)

Ability to Commute:

• Gibsonia, PA 15044 (Required)

Work Location: In person