Lab Technician - Analytical Chemistry
Job Title: Lab Technician - Analytical Chemistry
Work Location: Basel (no remote working)
Country: Switzerland
Duration: Till August 2025
Rate: Up to CHF 47.50 (8 hours per day) depending on experience
Your main duties as a Lab Technician will include:
- Working as part of the Biocatalysis / Protein Engineering Team to unlock the next breakthroughs in biocatalysis.
- Supporting and expanding the development of biocatalytic processes.
- Analysing of samples for a variety of compound classes including small molecules, oligonucleotides and proteins using HPLC
- UV, HPLC
- MS, SFC, GC
- FID, GC
- MS, LC
- MS and RapidFire
- MS
Additional duties will include:
- Interpretation of the analytical data, if needed using statistical tools
- Documenting the analytical raw data utilizing a specific LIMS system to track samples and analyses
- Assisting in the development and execution of assay to support enzyme screening in high
- throughput (HTP) formatting
Your Background:
- The team requires someone with a Scientific background, and has worked as a Lab technician (apprenticeship) or BSc/MSc level in analytical chemistry or analytical biochemistry, ideally with at least 4 years of relevant experience
- Solid hands
- on experience with analytical instrumentation and excellent understanding of analytical separation, detection, and measurement concepts
- Experience with small molecule detection using LC
- MS and GC
- MS strongly preferred
Language requirements:
- Fluent in English, basic knowledge of German considered a plus
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It is essential that applicants hold entitlement to work in Switzerland. Please quote job reference 106928 in all correspondence.