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The Position

Roche Diagnostics Cape Town is seeking a Reagent Manufacturing Scientist to join their team on a 1 year fixed-term contract.

As a Reagent Manufacturing Scientist you will conduct and monitor production activities or laboratory experiments utilizing established and published procedures or batch records and technical and theoretical understanding, whilst maintaining quality and managing schedules and workflow to accomplish assigned objectives.
You will play a vital role in ensuring the high-quality production of life-saving molecular solutions. You will join a collaborative team where technical precision meets a passion for patient impact.

Key Challenges

• Conduct and monitor production activities or laboratory experiments utilizing established and published procedures or batch records and technical and theoretical understanding while managing schedules and workflow to accomplish assigned objectives or schedules.

• Assumes responsibility for the accuracy, quality, and timeliness of production work or testing activities. Summarizes batch or experimental results, and uses technical writing skills to produce clear reports, documents, and summaries.Effectively communicate results/ experimental outcomes and project status to supervisor and/or project leaders, proactively highlighting significant findings or critical problem areas.

• Analyzes and interprets test results, experimental data using various data analysis software, spreadsheets and or applying quantitative methods. Present findings at internal team meetings as required.

• Assumes accountability for batch record, hard copy or electronic lab notebook documentation, ensuring experimental methods and results are recorded timely, accurately and consistently, and according to established formats.

• May troubleshoot issues related to equipment or instrumentation. With guidance, analyzes and brainstorms alternative approaches to solve problems, makes recommendations and implements solutions to solve problems.

• Establish and maintain positive internal, cross-functional, and (where applicable) customer relationships.

• Other duties as assigned by management.

Who You Are as an Ideal Candidate

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Molecular Biology, Chemical/Biochemical Engineering, or a related scientific discipline or equivalent combination of education and work experience.

• 3 years of relevant industry experience or general laboratory experience

In the absence of relevant qualifications, experience in the relevant field and at the relevant level will be considered.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Ability to execute relevant laboratory experimentation. Hands-on experience with standard molecular biology and biochemistry lab techniques.

• Demonstrated ability to follow Standard Operating Procedures (SOP), Manufacturing Instructions (MI) and Work Instructions (WI) documents. Working knowledge of relevant international ISO Standards (13485) would be advantageous.

• Demonstrated competency in reading and completing charts, forms, and other documents.

• Ability to use a personal computer with basic word-processing and spreadsheet applications.

• Excellent written and verbal communication and personal task management skills

• Accountability, the ability to multitask, perform consistently under pressure and work without supervision.

• Experience and understanding of protein purification techniques and enzyme analysis. Experience with AKTAs (FPLC) or HPLC will be advantageous.

Travel Requirements

0%, Based on business needs

Note that a full job description is available at request.

Note that relocation benefits are not available for this role.

Who we are

A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100’000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.

Let’s build a healthier future, together.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.