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Form of work Job Title: Lab TechnicianAnalytical Chemistry
Duration: 6 Months
Location: Cambridge, MA 02139
Job Description:
Duration: 6 Months
Location: Cambridge, MA 02139
Job Description:
- Act as the primary support technician for purification instrumentation within the Open Access labs of our Chemistry department in Cambridge, MA.
- Keep instruments running at their optimum performance through proactive preventive maintenance.
- Monitor performance of equipment by following QC protocols.
- Ensure methods are robustly delivering optimum performance by scheduling regular recovery experiments.
- Quickly respond to and diagnose instrument failures, where you may fix the easier issues, or work with the vendor to fix the more complicated ones.
- Work collaboratively with other team members and instrument users.
- Participate constructively in team meetings.
- Primary point of contact for 11 preparative open access systems (Waters Autopure HPLC-MS and ISCO AccQPrep UV-ELSD).
- Maintain spare parts inventory for commonly used replacements.
- Monitor trends in service requests and implement corrective actions to improve operational efficiency and reduce downtime of the instruments.
- A successful candidate will have 1-5 years experience in an industry setting as a Lab Technician or BS in scientific discipline such as chemistry, or engineering and 1-3 years experience.
- Ability to quickly diagnose and remedy advanced hardware and software problems.
- Good personal and communication skills and maintain a professional customer focus within the workplace.
- Individual must be self-motivated, well-organized, reliable, and able to prioritize workload.
- Conduct activities in compliance with Client safety, waste disposal, and other regulatory guidelines.
- Capable of working with hazardous chemicals and can identify and report unsafe equipment, conditions, and practices so that they may be corrected prior to an incident.
- Must be able to lift 50lbs.
- BS in scientific discipline such as chemistry or engineering.
- A basic understanding of analytical and purification HPLC/SFC and MS techniques, instrumentation and underlying principles is required and experience desired.
- Basic laboratory skills including preparing solvents, standards, and buffers including pipetting.
- Strong Windows PC skills.
- Working knowledge of MS Office.
