LC-MS Laboratory Technician
Job description
As a Laboratory Technician, you will play a key role in our day-to-day operations, ensuring the smooth running of our LC–MS workflows and contributing to method development and validation. This includes assessing data from analytical instruments, running routine samples, performing validations, and maintaining and troubleshooting instruments and robots.In this role, you will be highly involved in documentation, validation, and ensuring full compliance with ISO 15189 standards in all aspects of the work.
Responsibilities
Your main responsibility areas include:
- Perform daily routine tasks including sample reception, sample preparation, and analysis of customer samples.
- Maintain precise documentation for all processes, ensuring full compliance with accreditation standards.
- Partake in method development and validation
- Instrument maintenance
- Contribute to quality control and continuous improvement initiatives to enhance laboratory performance.
Qualifications
We are looking for someone with experience working with LC-MS or GC-MS in multidisciplinary environments. You should have a background in a relevant life science area, as well as few years of documented experience in LC-MS or GC-MS preferably both from method development, validation and routine diagnostics.To fit the role, we see that you are technically inclined and willing to carry out troubleshooting and maintenance on the instruments. You should also enjoy routine work and be analytical and structured.
Requirements:
- A master’s degree in a relevant scientific discipline; biochemistry, biomedicine, biotechnology, or chemistry (Analytical chemistry is a major merit)
- Few years of experience in mass spectrometry with liquid chromatography (LC-MS) or Gas chromatography (GC-MS)
- Having used LC-MS or GC-MS in a routine-based setting, either for patient sample analysis or within quality control.
- Knowledge in troubleshooting of mass spectrometers and liquid chromatographs
- Good communicative ability in English in speech and writing
- Good communicative ability in Swedish in speech and writing is highly meritorious
- Experience in automated laboratory workflows is highly meritorious
- Previous work in an ISO 15189 organization is highly meritorious
About the company
Abc Labs AB
ABC was created in spring 2020 in direct response to unprecedented challenges of the covid 19 pandemic and grew into the largest pandemic lab conducting up to 30% of total testing with public health contracts exceeding USD 180 million and R&D that led to three national screening programs and 9 publications.Now, we are deploying that infrastructure to the highly regulated, highly complex, and fragmented value chain for substance abuse testing at workplaces that is growing at more than 10% CAGR across the EU with need for increasingly sophisticated and scalable solutions to meet its challenges.
Join our team to work with brilliant colleagues innovating at the forefront of diagnostics by creating technologies combining software, robotics, data science, medical review, lab testing, and customer-facing operations to enable end-to-end products covering the entire spectrum of user needs – building an infrastructure for diagnostics that become exponentially more efficient over time.