Biochemistry Research Scientist - Farnborough, United Kingdom - QinetiQ

    QinetiQ
    QinetiQ Farnborough, United Kingdom

    3 weeks ago

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    Description

    The role

    :

    As a Biochemistry Research Scientist, you will have a role that is out of the ordinary and will be responsible for conducting research and development on a range of synthetic biology programmes, and will use your biochemical expertise to provide theoretical and practical inputs across the whole Engineering Biology portfolio. This will offer you a variety of multidisciplinary programmes across a broad spectrum of topic areas within the Functional Materials domain.

    Day to day responsibilities:

  • Leading and contributing to project delivery, mainly through practical laboratory work.
  • Being accountable for managing your own time and progress in order to meet agreed goals and deadlines.
  • Supporting proposal and bid development
  • Interfacing with customers
  • Training colleagues on request
  • Writing risk assessments for individual experiments
  • Being responsible for maintaining up-to-date chemical audits of the laboratory. This will involve co-ordinating the team to check that all required chemical paperwork is in place and all chemicals within the laboratory have been logged.
  • This is a full time, permanent, hybrid role.

    Essential experience of the Biochemistry Research Scientist:

  • Demonstrated ability to work with a variety of organism types and/or microbial strains
  • Background (theoretical and/or practical) in advanced materials and/or device fabrication
  • Experience of working in industry and/or with industrial partners and/or with external collaborators/ stakeholders
  • Evidence of working with multidisciplinary teams involving synthetic biology
  • Experience of commercialising research
  • Technical experience in any of:
    Robotic/automation systems, Bioinformatics, Coding, Proven proposal writing skills e.g. for external bids, grants etc.
  • Qualifications for the Biochemistry Research Scientist:

  • PhD in a relevant subject such as synthetic biology/ biochemistry
  • Demonstrated technical skills in protein biochemistry including recombinant protein expression and purification e.g. using chromatography (affinity, size exclusion etc.)
  • Experience in fundamental synthetic biology techniques e.g. PCR, gel electrophoresis, gene cloning, mutagenesis etc.
  • Experience of characterisation techniques such as mass spectrometry, NMR, circular dichroism, SAXS, SANS, SEM, X-ray crystallography, confocal microscopy etc.
  • Or

    We value difference and we don't have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

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