What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Media and Buffer Prep Specialist position at PerkinElmer?
Job Responsibilities:
Critical Skills:
- Prepare high quality and high-volume media, buffer, and reagents according to a regularly occurring schedule.
- Collaborate with scientists to create custom medias and formulations as special requests.
- Create and edit written SOPs, protocols, recipes, and other guidelines as it relates to the preparation of new, custom medias.
- Follow SOPs, protocols, and other guidelines as it relates to the preparation of reagents and buffers
- Quality control testing of these materials to ensure products are free of contaminations and are formulated appropriately
- Maintain relevant lab supplies and materials by performing purchasing of raw materials and managing inventory.
- Write, maintain, and troubleshoot experimental protocols.
- Analyze, synthesize, and communicate data to both technical and non-technical colleagues and collaborators.
- Be able to interact with colleagues in other functions and department to solve technical problems.
- General laboratory tasks, including maintenance of equipment, stocking of consumables, glass washing, and overall lab upkeep.
- Proficient technical skills required upon completion of relevant training: balance usage, pH meters, liquid-transfer devices
Critical Skills:
- Demonstrated technical skills required: balance usage, pH meters, liquid-transfer devices
- Must have sufficient math skills to calculate Mass/Molarity, concentrations, and dilutions.
- Bachelor’s degree in chemistry or other scientific discipline AND 2 years’ experience performing relevant responsibilities OR
- Associate’s degree in chemistry or other scientific discipline AND 4 years’ experience performing relevant responsibilities
- 1 years’ experience in mammalian cell culture
- Must understand the basic chemistry of buffer preparation including titrations and reactions
- Must be familiar with MS Office: Excel, Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint
- Must be able to work in a laboratory, controlled environments requiring personal protective equipment (e.g., lab coat, safety glasses, etc.) in laboratory.
- Job pace may be fast and job completion demands may be high.
- Must be able to remain in a stationary position more than 25% of the time
- The person needs to occasionally move between labs, corridors, adjoining rooms, and buildings onsite Frequently operate on instruments, objects, tools or controls, which will require regularly bending, squatting, stretching and reaching in order to perform in a service function.
- Occasionally move or lift up to 25 pounds (potential for occasional lifting of up to 50 pounds).
- Specific vision abilities required by this position include without limitation, the ability to observe details at close range distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus in order to perform the essential service functions of this position.
- Occasionally operates a computer and other office machinery, such as a calculator, copy machine, and computer printer.
- Employee may be required to handle hazardous waste according to local, state, and federal regulations. Duties may include identifying, handling, generating, accumulating, storing and labeling hazardous waste.
- Potential risk to lab-based hazards including but not limited to extreme temperature, biological materials, and hazardous chemicals.
- May be required to complete Medical Clearance, Respiratory Protection Training, and Fit Testing to wear a respirator as protection against hazards present in the laboratory environment.
Salary : $63,960 - $96,200