Title: Laboratory Technician
Location: Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
Hourly Rate: Competitive
Contract Type: Contract

Description:

The ideal Laboratory Technician will work with R&D teams providing support to scientists.

Your core responsibilities are cell culture maintenance, analysing samples, media and buffer preparation, DNA/RNA preps, laboratory maintenance and organisation.

Some examples include:

• pDNA, gDNA, RNA NGS preps
• Agar plates and LB broth prep
• Running samples on analytical equipment (such as HPLC, octet, Tecan, Hamilton, Miseq etc)
• Maintenance of mammalian cell cultures and mycoplasma testing
• Fed batch culture (flask and ambr15 formats)
• Lab maintenance including calibration checks, biological safety cabinet cleaning and restocking lab consumables
• Available for shifted working week (weekend worker, plus 3 week-days)

Requirements:

• Education background of at least a Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent), and 2 years of experience working in a lab.
• Due to the nature of the work and the training requirements, this role might not be suitable for someone straight out of university for example.