R&D Laboratory Technician

Location: Netherlands

SIRE® is the market leader in Life Sciences recruitment. We believe the recruitment market needs to gear up in technology and continuous innovation. We like technology, in a Life Sciences market driven on science, we couldn’t stay behind; we drive Recruitment Science. Investing a majority of our turnover in technology enables us to use unique Resource Technologies. By using highly advanced algorithms, we enable our team of Resource & Data Strategists© to maintain the most advanced, detailed and complete Life Sciences network in Europe. This big data enables us to work Reverse Recruitment©: we first analyze the market in-depth before we go out to the market. Because we analyze the whole market, we can compare facts and data. This enables us to do Facts & Big Data Recruitment©, making sure we, or better yet, you find the right career!Our client is a professional Food organisation, based in Utrecht Netherlands.

Role Description

The Research Centre for Specialised Nutrition is a life sciences innovation centre for the development of new product concepts for Baby Nutrition and Medical Nutrition. They create formulas that provide clinically substantiated health benefits to vulnerable consumers – infants, toddlers, elderly and patients.
Capitalising on numerous international preclinical and clinical collaborations, they aim to identify new nutritional intervention opportunities and develop innovative product forms. They have worldwide R&D facilities and established a new research & innovation center in 2013. The Advanced Analytical Discovery Team (AAD) part of Human Milk Research is an integral part of it and needs additional support of a skilled Scientist/ experienced in advanced instrumental analysis glycan sciences.

Responsibilities

In your new role, you will support the analytical and scientific goals of HMR/AAD by your expertise in cutting edge instrumental analytical technologies. You will also leverage scientific substantiation of research innovations e.g. related to functional glycans or HMOS. Your analytical focus will include but not be limited to ESI-LC-MS, MALDI-MS, GPC, structural characterization and quantitation of biomolecules (e.g. HMOS, dietary glycans) and analytical method development. You will conduct lab analyses utilizing the aforementioned technologies on a daily basis and govern storage and distribution of samples and other specimen. Moreover, you are willing and capable of taking over tasks like junior project management and coordination of aspects related to major ELN projects /engines. You will evaluate, report and present results in alignment with your teamleader. In this job you'll have a wide diversity in projects and statistics. Finally, you will drive and support our ISO 9001 conform way of working and the necessary steps for a continued improvement in this field.

Requirements

- HLO degree (mostly preferred Analytical Chemistry) or Master degree (MSc) in Chemistry, Biomedical Sciences or related area
- 3 years of hands on experience with ESI-LC-MS, MALDI-MS, and preparative GPC in life science research environment or within the food sector including method development and organization of lab workflows.
- Experience with LC-MS method optimization esp. with linear ion trap systems
- Skilled in usage of the necessary software to run the described analytical instrumentation (e.g. Explorer Series, Analyst (ABSciex), Exalibur, Bioworks, Chromeleon (Thermo Scientific), Chemstation (Agilent) etc.
- You are able to do the evaluation of large, complex data sets e.g. with advanced (multivariate) statistics-software tools (e.g. by PCA) and related software solutions.
- You are capable of managing self-supervised analytical projects and crossfunctioinal scientific projects by using your good time management and organizational skills.
- You are ready to present results to colleagues and managers.
- You are experienced in preparation of standard operation procedures (SOPs) and ISO 90xx and/or GMP workflows and also with implementation of ISO9001 QM.
- You are hands-on, flexible, self-starter but also a teamplayer, open minded and creative.
- You are driven by knowledge and results and through your passion and enthusiasm for instrumental analytics!
- You have excellent verbal and written skills in English, other languages (German, Dutch, French) would be a plus

Are you interested and do want to apply for this role, please fill out your application via the apply button below and contact Robin Hiariej.