Position Title:Chemist
Work Location: 10 Southgate Road, Scarborough, Maine, 04074
Assignment Duration: 6 months
Work Arrangement: Monday–Friday
Description:

 Rapid Diagnostics is part of ’s Diagnostics family of businesses, bringing together
exceptional teams of experts and industry leading technologies to support diagnostic testing
which provides important information for treatment and management of diseases and other
conditions.
The position of Technical Manufacturing Chemist within our Infectious Disease Developed
Markets business unit located at Scarborough, Maine. In this role you will produce material for
use in immunology-based chromatography and enzyme tests.
This job description will be reviewed periodically and is subject to change by management.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Maintains and supports the production schedule
• Investigates problem areas and areas of desirable improvement
• Undertakes new procedures and observes proper safety precautions
• Responsible for in-process QC testing of manufacturing material as it relates to qualifications, quality inspections and titration.
• Maintains quality systems and proper GMP/GLP
• Creates and follows protocols designed around product improvement
• Responsible for making critical and non-critical bioreagents for use in product and manufacturing processes using Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
• Works in a team setting and coordinates manufacturing efforts based upon a set production schedule and maintaining the raw bioreagent supply as needed to support

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS | EDUCATION:

• Bachelor’s Degree in a Chemistry, Life Sciences, or related field or equivalent
• combination of education and experience.

Prior Experience in the following areas:

• Pipette
• Spectrophotometry
• HPLC
• pH meters
• Gel Electrophoresis o SDS Page
• ELISA assays

COMPETENCIES:

• Ability to work successfully as a member of a team and independently with moderate
• supervision.
• Skill in using computer applications including spreadsheet, database, manufacturing, and
• word processing software.

 
 
At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $ 27.76/hr.