Senior Scientist

ZipRecruiter; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A growing biotechnological company in Edinburgh is seeking a Senior Scientist to manage cell culture operations and help innovate their revolutionary technologies. This exciting role offers significant opportunities for career growth and involves working on customer projects to deliver high-quality biological data.

Qualifications

• 5 years industry experience required.
• 3 years in mammalian cell culture.
• Exceptional written and oral communication.

Responsibilities

• Perform day-to-day operations at the Cytomos Cell Culture Facility.
• Assist with customer support and training.
• Analyze data and write professional reports.

Skills

Cell Culture

Data Analysis

Scientific Writing

Communication

Quality Awareness

H&S Awareness

Interpersonal Skills

Education

BSc degree in life sciences

Job description

Job Description

Why choose Cytomos?

At Cytomos, we believe in the power of people. We understand that our team is the driving force behind our success, and we are always on the lookout for talented individuals to join us on our journey. If you’re looking for a company that values innovation, fosters growth, and believes in the potential of every team member, you’ve come to the right place.

Our aim is to revolutionise cell analysis and is to become the undisputed PAT partner for real-time-single-cell analytics. We are proud to have developed a disruptive and IP protected technology platform for label-free single-cell analytics, which will enable the discovery, development and manufacture of novel biologic therapies.

You would join Cytomos at an exciting chapter, as we launch our flagship technology AuraCyt. With our mentorship-led approach to help you take on more responsibilities and advance your career more rapidly, you can grow with us on this journey. Our environment and culture offer great potential for your own career development, with more interesting challenges to help you evolve your skills and knowledge. If you want to be a meaningful part of a successful biotech company’s development, this will be the place for you to call home!

Senior Scientist Job Purpose:

Responsible for performing day-to-day operations at the Cytomos Cell Culture Facility based at the Technopole in Penicuik, including cell culture and experimental work on both customer and internal projects to generate biologically relevant data with Cytomos instruments. Assist with all aspects of promoting Cytomos technology including providing customer support and training, as well as data analysis and report writing.

Additional information:

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This position is predominantly lab and office based on our Edinburgh premises and the successful applicant would be expected to be onsite at least 4 days per week. Some weekend work and offsite travel for work at client premises may also be required on occasion.

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Key Responsibilities:

·Meeting customer and project expectations within set deadlines.

·Day-to-day cell culture and performing cell testing with our Cytomos platform.

· Critical data analytics skills and professional report writing, meeting consistently high scientific standards.

·Assisting with laboratory operations, including ordering, inventory management, scheduling and cleaning.

·Contributing to a fast growing and highly capable, cross-disciplinary team of biological scientists and engineers.

·Supporting the experimental plans required to deliver the biology team function.

·Provide post-sales support and training on the use of our AuraCyt Instruments, technology and data analysis platform to customers.

·Actively contributing to our product development by providing feedback to the engineering team regarding software and instrument performance, improvements and bugs.

·Ensuring compliance with Cytomos’ policies, procedures and guidelines, together with all relevant regulatory and statutory requirements.

·Engaging with the company’s appraisal process, and demonstrate commitment to our values, behaviours and your continuous personal development.

·Behave as role model, embracing & personifying company values: We Care. We Pioneer. We Challenge. in full accordance with Cytomos guidance and policies in place whilst applying strong situational leadership skills.

·Performing other reasonable duties and/or projects as directed by your line manager.

Essential Skills/ Experience

An appropriate BSc degree in life sciences (e.g., biological sciences, biomedical science)

Minimum of five years industry experience.

Minimum of three years industry (or equivalent) experience in mammalian cell culture and aseptic techniques.

Scientific writing including independent production of high quality reports.

Demonstrated the ability to work independently and within a close-knit team.

Communication: Communicating with the Head of Bioscience/CSOO and other internal teams to ensure Celledonia and AuraCyt technology testing and customer engagements are in line with the Cytomos Programme Management System.

Commercial awareness: Maintain a customer-focused mindset. Compile required documentation.

Laboratory skills and teamwork:Required to perform laboratory related tasks such as tissue culture, AuraCyt technology assessment and routine cell-based assays (e.g. flow cytometry) for internal testing and customer projects carried out in-house.

Quality awareness: Perform contemporaneous data recording of high standards. Contributing to the of protocols and other controlled documents in line with the Cytomos Quality policy.

H&S awareness: Complete and review laboratory H&S documentation such as SOPs, Risk Assessments and COSHH as required for each project.

Exceptional written and oral communication: For practical work and reporting. Ensure accurate data interpretation and reporting of data in line with project timelines and support the Head of Bioscience in producing new content and compilation of reports and white papers.

Ability to work under pressure, adapt to multitude of diverse mindsets and technical backgrounds.

Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to listen to, understand and build rapport with customers.

Can plan ahead, organise their work, take into account the potential for change.

Can use your initiative to resolve problems by finding solutions.

Self-motivated with an eye for detail; maintenance of high standards.

Desirable Skills/ Experience

A PhD degree in life sciences (e.g., biological sciences, biomedical science).

Knowledge of flow cytometry

Knowledge of cell line development (CLD)

Knowledge of assays such as ELISA, qPCR and other cell-based assays.

Experience in GLP/GMP/ISO standards.

Worked with external collaborators and customers.

Laboratory experience including maintenance, cleaning, inventory management and procurement (anticipating workloads), liaising with suppliers, etc.