Actalent Hiring for Laboratory Technician ***URGENT HIRE*** at Kansas City, Kansas Full Time

Description:

• Responsible for preparing solutions for analysis using balances and pipettes

• Will train on and perform basic Tecan instrument assays

• Laboratory upkeep: glassware washing, cleaning of the lab, freezer organization, checking through chemical inventory and notifying team members when chemicals need ordered

• Preparing paperwork, solution prep, solubility testing, in situ incubations, standard curve preparation

• Thawing cryopreserved hepatocytes, cell observation daily, photomicrographs, maintenance of the cells, timepoint collections for various end point analysis, preparation of study specific forms and templates.

• Working in the immortalized cell culture lab where there will be 6 or more cell lines being maintained on a daily basis. This includes feeding, passaging, cryopreserving, and plating

We are looking for an individual with less than a year experience but someone who know how to use a pipette (specifically to measure microliter volumes). This is a Research Assistant position on the PRE team. They will be conducting all our solubility testing, cytotoxicity assays (plate reader assays), non-specific binding and test article stability assays. This position is a lot of bench wet chemistry making solutions. So we need someone with basic Chemistry knowledge that understands the C1V1=C2V2 equation.

Skills:

research, Biology, chemistry, pipettes, titrations, basic wet chemistry, sample prep, reagents, Cell culture, Molecular biology, Biochemistry, micropipette

Additional Skills & Qualifications:

6months – 1 year industry experience:

• micropipette experience

• experience handling and weighing chemicals

• solution prep- microliters to 10s of liters

• pH testing

• filtering solutions

Experience with chemistry math:

• molar conversions and calculations

• C1V1

• calculations for weighing out drugs

Excel Experience:

• insert rows/columns

-able to create calculations- sums, averages

Experience Level:

Entry Level

About Actalent:

Actalent connects passion with purpose. Our scalable talent solutions and services capabilities drive value and results and provide the expertise to help our customers achieve more. Every day, our experts around the globe are making an impact. We’re supporting critical initiatives in engineering and sciences that advance how companies serve the world. Actalent promotes consultant care and engagement through experiences that enable continuous development. Our people are the difference. Actalent is an operating company of Allegis Group, the global leader in talent solutions.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.