Senior Research Technician

Job Title: Senior Research Technician

Location: Manchester

Salary: £36,000 - £48,000 per year + overtime

Hours: Four 10-hour days for vivarium support roles

Contract: Permanent, full-time

We are a contract development and manufacturing organisation making biologics and sterile injectables for drug companies. We started in 2009 and have grown to about 100 people. Manufacturing runs 24/7 on 12-hour rotating shifts.

The role:

This is a fully on-site lab role. Some evening or weekend work is needed for long time-course experiments. Our Protein Sciences team supports two programs moving toward IND filing and needs more capacity at the bench.

What you'll do:

• Record procedures and results in an electronic lab notebook such as Benchling
• Process animal tissue samples under approved IACUC protocols
• Write and revise SOPs and protocols
• Order lab supplies and coordinate with vendors
• Ship samples to CROs and track chain of custody
• Operate and maintain lab equipment such as plate readers, liquid handlers and centrifuges

Who you are:

• Careful record keeping in lab notebooks
• Hands-on experience with cell culture and at least two of: ELISA, qPCR, western blot, flow cytometry
• Comfortable with Excel and GraphPad Prism for basic analysis
• Must be able to work on site 5 days per week

What we offer:

• Company pension
• 28 days annual leave including bank holidays
• Employee assistance programme
• Birthday off
• Free on-site parking
• Pension scheme with 5% employer contribution

Interviews will be held in person at our Manchester office.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at KL Biosciences Ltd.