Senior Cell Culture Lab Technician

7 days ago

Warrington, Warrington, United Kingdom XCellR8 Full time

Senior Cell Culture Lab Technician
Warrington, Cheshire

If you have experience of working in a regulatory laboratory environment and knowledge of cell culture maintenance, this is an incredible opportunity to help accelerate the world's transition to 100% animal-free testing.


About Us
We're XCellR8, an award-winning organisation that is dedicated to developing animal-free testing solutions for the cosmetics and chemical industries.
We're committed to Xcellence, being Xtraordinary, Xemplary and going the Xtra mile to achieve outstanding results.

We are now seeking a Senior Cell Culture Lab Technician to join us on a permanent, full-time basis, at the prestigious National Innovation Campus at Sci-Tech Daresbury.


The Benefits:

  • Competitive salary, depending on experience
  • 25 days' holiday per year
  • Company pension
  • Access to high quality training and development
  • Social and wellbeing initiatives including supporting corporate charity efforts, team socials to celebrate

This is an unmissable opportunity for a laboratory technician with knowledge of cell culture testing and experience of working to Quality Standards, to join our pioneering company.

Born from a great idea and a passion for animal welfare, XCellR8 has become a world leader in our field and we're constantly pushing boundaries to find animal-free, cutting-edge testing solutions.

We provide the ideal environment in which to progress your scientific career.

With a reputation for our innovative approach, we have a Good Laboratory Practice certification, as well as a number of awards for our pioneering work.

Here, you will have the chance to help develop exciting new scientific techniques, work with some of the world's top cosmetic brands and help to protect human safety.

So, if you want to contribute to important work that's providing a more ethical and scientifically advanced alternative to animal testing, we want to hear from you.


The Role

As our Senior Cell Culture Lab Technician, you are responsible for providing an internal service to our lab scientist team to support cell-based testing.

You will be focussed on maintaining all cell types within our lab and conducting advanced planning of cell culture to provide cells for test assays on pre-agreed dates.

Supporting our regulatory and non-regulatory assays, you will be engaged with preliminary testing.

Specifically, you will be responsible for:

  • The maintenance of both primary and immortalised cell lines
  • The maintenance of adherent and suspension cells
  • Conducting interference testing to support commercial testing
  • The management of the cell culture scheduling to support commercial testing

About You
To join us as our Senior Cell Culture Lab Technician, you will need:

  • Previous experience performing a similar role
  • Experience working to Quality Standards
  • GLP, ISO, any other relevant experience.
  • Experience of using cell viability reagents
  • Experience performing cell population doubling
  • Experience in microscopy
  • Experience with cryopreservation
  • Experience with chemical solubility (training will be provided)
  • Knowledge of cell morphology and indicators of cell health
  • Understanding of biological safety/hazards
  • Knowledge of aseptic technique
  • Troubleshooting skills
  • Strong timemanagement and the ability to plan resources ahead
  • Effective communication skills

Ideally, you'll also be as committed to the development and implementation of in vitro alternatives to animal testing as we are here at XCellR8.

Other organisations may call this role Cell Culture Technical Lead, Senior Cell Culture Technician, Senior Technician, Lab Technician, Laboratory Scientist, Lab Associate, Lab Scientist, Senior Lab Assistant, or Lab Research Associate.

XCellR8 are equal opportunities employers, value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment.

Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and webelieve that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.

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