Job Description

Job Summary

We currently have an exciting opportunity for a Sample Technician to join us. You will join a dedicated team of 3 and their team leader - Cryogenic Facility Manager to support the UK Cell Bank and take responsibility of managing the storage and supply cell lines to scientists across AstraZeneca R&D functions. We are offering this role on a full time, permanent basis.

Do you have an interest in science and want to kick off your career with a leading company in the sector? This may be the opportunity for you.

You will work five days a week - Monday to Friday, core hours.

Site Address: AstraZeneca, Biomedical Campus, Cambridge

Who we are looking for

• Self-motivated, energetic, dependable, honest
• Competent in use of IT systems and software
• Experience of working in compliance with global standards and regulations following defined SOP\xe2\x80\x99s desirable but not essential
• Solid understanding of LIMS, another information management system or tracking system
• Logistics (shipment preferably) experience from pharmaceutical/science industry desirable (raw materials, cell, samples shipments)

How you will thrive and create an impact

• Handling cell lines to ensure that cells are received, inventoried, logged, labelled, stored, tracked, dispatched, returned and/or disposed of appropriately
• Picking and dispatching of cells within the DISC and to external sites including International Shipments
• Use of tracking systems as appropriate and communicates effectively with internal customers
• Management of role related inventory (Cell Boxes, Cryoshippers, Cryopods)
• Support other AZ groups with decanting liquid nitrogen, housekeeping of Cryogenic Facility
• Manual handling involved lifting heavy columns from cryotanks

Why Avantor?

Dare to go further in your career. Join our global team of 14,000+ associates whose passion for discovery and determination to overcome challenges relentlessly advances life-changing science.

The work we do changes people\xe2\x80\x99s lives for the better. It brings new patient treatments and therapies to market, giving a cancer survivor the chance to walk his daughter down the aisle. It enables medical devices that help a little boy hear his mom\xe2\x80\x99s voice for the first time. Outcomes such as these create unlimited opportunities for you to contribute your talents, learn new skills and grow your career at Avantor.

We are committed to helping you on this journey through our diverse, equitable and inclusive culture which includes learning experiences to support your career growth and success. At Avantor, dare to go further and see how the impact of your contributions set science in motion to create a better world. Apply today!

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