Company information

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

Position summary

Our Recombinant Proteins (REP) Business Unit in Cranbury, NJ is part of our Biosciences Division. REP unites deep scientific expertise with a collaborative culture to build a product portfolio that includes cytokines, growth factors, antibodies and ELISA kits used to support the research of our academic, government, biotech, and pharmaceutical customers.

As a GMP e. Coli Scientist, you’ll contribute to the development of potential GMP protein products and assist in establishing a process and procedures for their ongoing production.

Key Responsibilities

• Plan and conduct experiments, analyze and interpret the results.
• Proactively communicate with supervisor and peers as needed to ensure optimal work environment.
• Discuss research progress with other departments (e.g. production and marketing).
• Shares the results of research with colleagues through presentations or discussions at team meetings.
• Keeps accurate records of activities and results in the laboratory notebooks and databases where appropriate.
• Document protocols, observations, and analyzes data in an organized accurate laboratory notebook.
• Keep up to date with other research being carried out in, or related to, their field of study.
• Provide guidance and assistance to colleagues when needed.
• Maintain a safe and clean work environment for self and others.
• Advise supervisor of factors that may affect quality, accuracy, timeliness and usefulness of data.
• Assist in the interpretation of experiment results.
• Assist in creating kits when assigned to a kit production project.
• Monitor and proactively address back orders and ability to forecast project completions.

Keys to Success:

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in chemistry or related field and 2 years lab experience or Master’s degree plus 1 year lab experience

Experience

• Strong computer skills as well as ability to collect, organize, and interpret data.
• Strong written and verbal communications skills; ability to interpret, summarize, and present scientific results in a clear, concise, accurate manner to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Consistently exhibits a high level of attention to detail.
• Ability to multitask, shift priorities and work at a rapid pace.
• Effective organizational skills, including the ability to handle multiple and changing projects and priorities.
• Ability to formulate and solve problems efficiently.
• Understanding of GMP production and inherent procedures very helpful

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, each one of our 100,000 extraordinary minds have a unique story to tell. Join us and contribute to our singular mission—enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer.

We offer competitive pay, annual incentive plan bonus scheme, healthcare, company pension, and a range of employee benefits!

Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.