Laboratory Automation Scientist I

Location

Manchester | United Kingdom

Job description

Reports to : Laboratory Automation Team Leader

Location : Manchester Science Park

Contract Type : Full-time, Permanent

Salary & Benefits : Competitive Salary + Benefits Package

About Yourgene Health:

Yourgene Health is a leading integrated technologies and services business, enabling the delivery of genomic medicine. The group works in partnership with global leaders in DNA technology to advance diagnostic science.

Yourgene primarily develops, manufactures, and commercialises simple and accurate molecular diagnostic solutions, for reproductive health, precision medicine and infectious diseases. The Group's flagship in vitro diagnostic products include non -invasive prenatal tests (NIPT) for Down's Syndrome and other genetic disorders, Cystic Fibrosis screening tests, invasive rapid aneuploidy tests and DPYD genotyping.

Yourgene has a range of innovative DNA sample preparation platforms, powered by Ranger® Technology, the Yourgene LightBench® and Yourgene QS250, ideal for cell free DNA applications in NIPT and oncology including liquid biopsy.

Yourgene also has a global laboratory service network equipped to be a full life-cycle partner for clinical, research and pharmaceutical organisations to support partners at the preclinical, clinical, and post market stage to develop, manufacture, obtain regulatory approval and commercialise new products and services. In addition, Yourgene offers and NIPT and high throughput Covid testing service.

Yourgene Health is headquartered in Manchester, UK with facilities in Taipei, Singapore, the US and Canada.

Our Culture:

Yourgene is a growing, vibrant and exciting place to work, we are looking for committed driven individuals to be part of our next growth journey. Our culture is described by our employee's as collegiate, friendly, professional, innovative, open and fast paced. We have nay social and well-being initiatives run by our Social Huddle that keep our sense of community alive during challenging times that the pandemic has thrown our way. At Yourgene we focus on putting values led programmes in place to ensure that we can attract, retain and develop our people. We want our people to have a career with Yourgene and we ensure that they are recognised and rewarded for their achievements and commitment, everyone plays a critical role in our growth journey.

Description of role: The Laboratory Automation Scientist is required to design, implement and optimise the automation processes to support the design, development verification and validation of in vitro diagnostic products and services.

Overall responsibility: The Laboratory Automation Scientist will provide automation expertise on development projects, ensuring experimental work is well planned and executed to a high quality in a timely fashion. Automates in vitro diagnostic products and services for use in a range of applications.

Key areas of responsibility:

• Provides automation expertise and input into experiments and study designs
• Support and, where appropriate, lead, design, planning and reporting automation testing and studies
• Work collaboratively with other scientists to automate laboratory processes which meet the user needs of our customers
• Create, maintain and improve of laboratory and automation SOPs, as well as systems and process SOPs
• Support the design and execution of studies involving;

• Install, test and validate new automation systems
• Accurate and timely documentation
• Design and optimise automation workflows to ensure they are compatible with test reagents to meet user requirements
• Establish user friendly interfaces on and between automated instruments
• Enable data transfer and traceability between automation platforms and LIMS (or similar) systems
• Data generation, ensuring integrity and organized data management
• Analysing data to enable interpretation by self and others
• Meeting regulatory or other requirements

• Participate in activities outside of own team, such as Innovation, Assay Development, Validation and Design Transfer, where required
• Train other team members, cross functional colleagues and customers can be trained in the use of laboratory automation equipment and software

Qualifications, Skills and Abilities

• Degree or further degree (or equivalent) in a life science such as molecular biology, biochemistry or genetics
• Laboratory automation experience
• Experience with liquid handlers, plate readers, automation software and equipment; e.g. PerkinElmer, Beckman, Hamilton, Agilent, Tecan
• Software programming skills including but not limited to Python, PostgreSQL/batch files and VBA for robotic operation and graphical user interface
• Experience of full development cycle designing/adapting robotic platforms (user requirement specifications/FATs and SATs) in conjunction with suppliers an advantage
• Knowledge of GLP, as well as instrument qualification and validation
• Able to analyse scientific workflows and recommend changes to improve scientific processes
• Able to contribute to experimental design and can perform execution
• Capable of analysing data
• Enthusiasm, drive, thoroughness, diligence and a willingness to take personal responsibility to ensure that projects are successful
• Good organizational skills
• Good IT skills, including Microsoft Office suite

Closing Date:

Sunday 24th March 2024

Yourgene Health is committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion among our workforce. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best.

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