Lab Manager/Lab Specialist (AKTA and HPLC)

AstraZeneca. We are a global, science-led, patient-focused pharmaceutical company. We are dedicated to transforming the future of healthcare by unlocking the power of what science can do for people, society and the planet.

Our Gaithersburg, Maryland facility creates life-changing medicines for people around the world. This campus employs more than 3,500 experts in our field and is only a short drive from Washington, DC. This modern and vibrant scientific campus is the home of R&D and Oncology in the US. Here, we play host to some of the most cutting-edge technology and lab spaces, all designed to inspire collaboration and cross-functional science. We believe employees benefit from being challenged and inspired at work. We are dedicated to creating a culture of inclusion and collaboration.

The Gaithersburg site offers a variety of amenities to help boost productivity and help keep our employees happy and healthy. This includes a fitness center, employee healthcare clinic, electric vehicle charging stations, dry cleaning, full-service cafeteria and copy center. This is where you’ll find newly-designed, activity-based work spaces to suit a variety of working styles while increasing collaboration between teams.

Summary of the group:

In Purification Process Sciences in Gaithersburg, MD you’ll play a pivotal role in channeling our scientific capabilities to make a positive impact on changing patients’ lives. We’re constantly pushing the boundaries of science to deliver life-changing medicines to patients, with a passion for discovery and a pipeline to show for it. We’re pioneering innovative research and exploring novel pathways across key therapeutic areas including oncology, respiratory, inflammation and autoimmunity, cardiovascular and metabolic disease, and infection and vaccines. And we’re industry-leading in immunology, protein engineering and translational science. We offer a unique and strong collaborative network as part of the AstraZeneca family, as together we explore synergies between small and large molecules.

Do you have a passion for Science? Would you like to apply your expertise to impact a company that follows the science and turns ideas into life changing medicines? Then AstraZeneca might be the one for you!

At AstraZeneca, we put patients first and strive to meet their unmet needs worldwide. Working here means being entrepreneurial, thinking big and working together to make the impossible a reality. If you are swift to action, confident to lead, willing to collaborate, and curious about what science can do, then you’re our kind of person.

LAB MANAGER/LAB SPECIALIST

Job description:

Main Duties & Responsibilities:

This role will work in the Purification Process Sciences (PPS) group within the BioProcess Development (BPD) department serving as a lab manager. The person in this role will work closely within PPS and across other functions to maintain and manage the daily operation of the PPS labs. Main duties include:

• Perform lab management activities across PPS labs including: Ensuring the placement of instruments and consumables to efficiently use lab space. Organize lab areas and shared lab equipment, create log books (Track system, change controls), data integrity of systems, Organization of laboratory hardware and buffer prep areas, ordering of consumables, routine maintenance of equipment (including AKTA and HPLC systems), maintain laboratory consumable inventory.

• Serve as the point of contact for all lab equipment and will escort external vendors for onsite preventative maintenance (PM), prepare and send out equipment for PMs, communicate with to give computer access (if needed), and provide vendors with supplies needed for PM (buffers, etc).

• The purification lab manager will maintain an updated new hire on-boarding package that includes an introduction to lab, best lab practices, lab citizenship, how-to guides, equipment use Logins, lab supply accounts, and shipping logistics.

• As the point of contract for all lab equipment the purification lab manager will represent PPS in meetings with facilities and lab ops. Duties will also include coordinating routine freezer and cold room clean-outs. Additionally, the preparation of BSCs for maintenance will be required.

• The purification lab manager will be the point for contact for SHE and will partake in safety walkthroughs and inspections, help increase safety compliance in labs, and take point on safety initiatives.

• The purification lab manager will be the purification contact for Quality initiatives. Activities also include, coordinating lab preparation for AZ Annual Audits, ensuring compliance with GLS, Data Integrity, and Equipment SOPs.

Education & Experience Requirements:

• BS/BA with 5+ years or MS/MA with 2+ years experience preferred.

Required Skills:

• Highly team-oriented, energetic, critical thinker, organized, capable of multitasking.

• Excellent oral and written communication skills.

• Knowledge of common laboratory equipment operation and maintenance.

• Familiar with safe laboratory practices.

Desired Skills:

• Experience with common purification equipment (AKTA, HPLC, TFF systems, etc.).

• Basic understanding of protein purification process development and purification lab operations.

• Working with biotech quality organizations.

• Prior lab management and organization experience highly desirable.

Why AstraZeneca?

At AstraZeneca when we see an opportunity for change, we seize it and make it happen, because any opportunity no matter how small, can be the start of something big. Delivering life-changing medicines is about being entrepreneurial - finding those moments and recognising their potential. Join us on our journey of building a new kind of organisation to reset expectations of what a bio-pharmaceutical company can be. This means we’re opening new ways to work, pioneering cutting edge methods and bringing unexpected teams together.

When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working gives us the platform to connect, work at pace and challenge perceptions. That’s why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that doesn’t mean we’re not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our unique and ambitious world.”

Interested? Come and join our journey.

So, what’s next!

Are you ready to bring new ideas and fresh thinking to the table? Brilliant! We have one seat available and we hope it’s yours.

AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics. We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.

AstraZeneca requires all US employees to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 but will consider requests for reasonable accommodations as required by applicable law.