Job title:
Scientist II (Infectious Disease team)
Reports to:
Product Development Team Leader (Infectious Disease team)
Location:
Manchester Science Park
Contract Type:
Full-time, Permanent
Salary & Benefits:
Competitive Salary + Benefits Package
About Yourgene Health:
Yourgene Health is a leading integrated technologies and services business, enabling the delivery of genomic medicine. The group works in partnership with global leaders in DNA technology to advance diagnostic science.
Yourgene primarily develops, manufactures, and commercialises simple and accurate molecular diagnostic solutions, for reproductive health, precision medicine and infectious diseases.
Description of role:
Yourgene Health, part of the Novacyt Group, are recruiting for a Scientist II to design, develop, verify and validate our Infectious Disease product range under ISO13485 and ISO9001 quality systems.
Overall responsibility:
The Scientist II will provide scientific expertise on infectious disease development projects, ensuring experimental work is well planned and executed to a high quality level in a timely fashion.
Key areas of responsibility:
Provides scientific expertise and input into experiments through to project work-packages
Lead planning, execution and reporting of defined project experiments and work-packages
Work collaboratively with other scientists to create products and processes which meet the user needs of our customers
Support cross functional collaboration, which may also include leading projects
Create, maintain and improve laboratory SOPs, as well as systems and process SOPs
Design and execute effective and efficient studies involving:
Accurate and timely documentation
Developing and implementing protocols to show that tests meet acceptance criteria
Processing clinical samples to demonstrate clinical validity
Data generation, ensuring integrity and organized data management
Provide accurate and independent data interpretation, building experience of systems-level thinking
Determining test parameters, such as output specifications
Meeting regulatory or other requirements
Lead troubleshooting activities when technical issues arise
Team specific responsibilities:
Innovation: Delivery of value-add innovative ideas for transfer into assay development
Assay Development: Delivery of optimised assays and workflows for products and services
Validation: Delivery of validated tests and systems for products and services
Design Transfer: Delivery of tests and systems for products and services to Operations functions
Participate in activities outside of own team, such as Innovation, Assay Development, Automation, Validation and Design Transfer, where required
Perform laboratory maintenance tasks such as lab maintenance, stock monitoring, goods in receiving and cleaning
Ensure own work meets regulatory & quality requirements (including compliance to SOPs, documentation using lab books, study plans, study reports and integrity of data)
Support and provide guidance to junior staff
Qualifications, Skills and Abilities:
Degree or further degree (or equivalent) in a life science such as molecular biology, biochemistry or genetics
Experience of using bioinformatics tools as part of assay design is highly desirable
Typically 5+ years of relevant experience
Experience in the development, verification and validation of molecular diagnostic assays in adherence with CE marking and/or design control regulations
Hands on experience with at least two molecular biology-based assays and techniques
Capable of analysing data and providing interpretation
Capable of independently performing experimental design and execution
Enthusiasm, drive, thoroughness, diligence and a willingness to take personal responsibility to ensure that projects are successful
Good organisational skills and thrives on working to tight timelines
Can summarize scientific data in written form to effectively communicate plans, progress and ideas with Management, Peers or External Audiences
Closing Date:
Sunday 16th February, 2025
Yourgene Health is committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion among our workforce. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best.
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Scientist II (Infectious Disease team)
Reports to:
Product Development Team Leader (Infectious Disease team)
Location:
Manchester Science Park
Contract Type:
Full-time, Permanent
Salary & Benefits:
Competitive Salary + Benefits Package
About Yourgene Health:
Yourgene Health is a leading integrated technologies and services business, enabling the delivery of genomic medicine. The group works in partnership with global leaders in DNA technology to advance diagnostic science.
Yourgene primarily develops, manufactures, and commercialises simple and accurate molecular diagnostic solutions, for reproductive health, precision medicine and infectious diseases.
Description of role:
Yourgene Health, part of the Novacyt Group, are recruiting for a Scientist II to design, develop, verify and validate our Infectious Disease product range under ISO13485 and ISO9001 quality systems.
Overall responsibility:
The Scientist II will provide scientific expertise on infectious disease development projects, ensuring experimental work is well planned and executed to a high quality level in a timely fashion.
Key areas of responsibility:
Provides scientific expertise and input into experiments through to project work-packages
Lead planning, execution and reporting of defined project experiments and work-packages
Work collaboratively with other scientists to create products and processes which meet the user needs of our customers
Support cross functional collaboration, which may also include leading projects
Create, maintain and improve laboratory SOPs, as well as systems and process SOPs
Design and execute effective and efficient studies involving:
Accurate and timely documentation
Developing and implementing protocols to show that tests meet acceptance criteria
Processing clinical samples to demonstrate clinical validity
Data generation, ensuring integrity and organized data management
Provide accurate and independent data interpretation, building experience of systems-level thinking
Determining test parameters, such as output specifications
Meeting regulatory or other requirements
Lead troubleshooting activities when technical issues arise
Team specific responsibilities:
Innovation: Delivery of value-add innovative ideas for transfer into assay development
Assay Development: Delivery of optimised assays and workflows for products and services
Validation: Delivery of validated tests and systems for products and services
Design Transfer: Delivery of tests and systems for products and services to Operations functions
Participate in activities outside of own team, such as Innovation, Assay Development, Automation, Validation and Design Transfer, where required
Perform laboratory maintenance tasks such as lab maintenance, stock monitoring, goods in receiving and cleaning
Ensure own work meets regulatory & quality requirements (including compliance to SOPs, documentation using lab books, study plans, study reports and integrity of data)
Support and provide guidance to junior staff
Qualifications, Skills and Abilities:
Degree or further degree (or equivalent) in a life science such as molecular biology, biochemistry or genetics
Experience of using bioinformatics tools as part of assay design is highly desirable
Typically 5+ years of relevant experience
Experience in the development, verification and validation of molecular diagnostic assays in adherence with CE marking and/or design control regulations
Hands on experience with at least two molecular biology-based assays and techniques
Capable of analysing data and providing interpretation
Capable of independently performing experimental design and execution
Enthusiasm, drive, thoroughness, diligence and a willingness to take personal responsibility to ensure that projects are successful
Good organisational skills and thrives on working to tight timelines
Can summarize scientific data in written form to effectively communicate plans, progress and ideas with Management, Peers or External Audiences
Closing Date:
Sunday 16th February, 2025
Yourgene Health is committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion among our workforce. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best.
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