Research Specialist - Cell Culture

Imagine a world where you could detect health issues sooner to treat them more effectively. Where food and water are always safe, even in remote corners of the earth. And where scientific and medical research are enhanced to solve the greatest challenges of our times. At PerkinElmer, we imagine this world every day. Then, we innovate and collaborate to make it happen everywhere.

Our dedicated team of about 16,000 employees worldwide, pioneers scientific technologies for better detection, imaging, and informatics to help our customers work to create healthier families, improve the quality of life, and sustain the well-being and longevity of people globally.

If you are seeking a meaningful, impactful, and stimulating career, look no further.

Job Responsibilities

• Provide high quality laboratory support to the Synthetic Lethality team.

• Support multiple ongoing large-scale cell-based projects that are critical to the success and future of the department.  

• Lab work will include mammalian cell culturing, cell proliferation, protein isolation, and viral transduction.

• Generate and analyze data with the highest Data Integrity standards.

• Operate and maintain laboratory instrumentation and robotics, including liquid sample handling platforms.

• Continue technological improvements to increase productivity and cost-efficiency.

• Data reporting, management, and interactions as appropriate with the teams.

• Develop organization skills, presentation skills and attention to detail.

• Interact with senior staff members as necessary.

• Ensure compliance with all R&D data integrity practices, ethics codes, standards and training, and safety training and practice

Basic Qualifications

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• Bachelor’s degree Required

• Laboratory research experience in an laboratory environment required.

• 6 months of technical expertise in cell culture, general lab instrumentation, cell-based assays required.

Preferred Qualifications:

If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

• Previous experience in biotech and/or pharmaceutical drug discovery. 

• Experience with the any/all of the following: CellTiter Glo, Caspase Glo, Incucyte, western blot, Jess, Li-Cor, BacMam, Lentivirus

Other requirement:

• Ability to work independently and deliver high-quality, consistent results in a timely fashion.

• Design and execute new and established methods and protocols.

• Ability to meet timelines successfully with the utmost attention to detail while setting high performance standards.

• Ability to understand, interpret, and communicate complex scientific data

Physical Demands

• The overall physical exertion of this position may require:

• Sit or stand 2-3 hours in laboratory areas.

• Walk 2-3 hours within a facility.

• Reach above/below the shoulder, bend at the knees and waist.

• Lift up to 25 lbs.

• Office work activities, including keyboard, with fingers/hands/arms up to 4 hours.

• Work around moving laboratory equipment and machinery.

• Use of personal protective equipment in the laboratory.

• Work with biohazards such as blood borne pathogens.

Working Environment

• Must be able to work in a laboratory, controlled environments requiring personal protective     equipment.

• Job pace may be fast and job completion demands may be high.

• Employees may be required to manage hazardous wastes in compliance with company procedures & State/Federal/Local hazardous waste regulations. Duties may include: Identifying, handling, generating, accumulating, storing, labeling.

• Ensure safety, security, and the environment in all aspects of the daily activities, and any potential safety hazards are addressed and corrected immediately.

• Understand ergonomic relationship between people, equipment and working environment.