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Laboratory Assistant

  • Industry
  • Vancouver
  • Applications have closed

Website AbCellera

We are a young, driven and innovative company looking for a laboratory operations assistant to join our lab management team. We believe that we can tackle the most challenging scientific problems through teamwork, innovation, and mutual support. If you’re a self-motivated and creative problem solver who thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative environment, and you take pride in helping others, we’d love to hear from you.

How you might spend your days:

-Maintaining the lab space and restocking supplies
-Maintaining inventories for equipment, consumables and reagents
-Performing routine internal maintenance of lab equipment
-Following up with lab users to identify future inventory needs
-Requesting common lab consumable orders
-Assisting in the production, aliquoting and maintenance of reagent stock inventories
-Coordinating activities with the rest of the lab management team and other labs
-Maintaining a safe and productive work environment and lab facility, compliant with regulatory requirements
-Supporting the team whenever an extra pair of hands is needed

We’d love to hear from you if:

-You thrive in a collaborative environment
-You enjoy working in a fast-paced work environment and coordinating with your team to juggle multiple competing priorities
-You take pride in being a self-motivated person, fast learner, team player, and creative problem solver

Required qualifications and experience:

-A post-secondary education degree; a science diploma or certificate is preferred
-You are friendly and personable with excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
-You show initiative and thrive in a team-based environment
-You have excellent documentation and organizational skills with impeccable attention to detail
-You can successfully juggle multiple tasks and have outstanding time management skills
-You are accountable, reliable, punctual, and resilient, with an unwavering work ethic
-Eagerness to solve problems both big and small

 Offers & benefits:

-The opportunity to work with an inspired team on challenging problems that matter
-An attractive compensation package, including health and lifestyle benefits
-A minimum of 3 weeks’ vacation
-Opportunities for professional and personal development

About AbCellera:

At AbCellera, we’re solving tough problems and creating innovative solutions from the ground up – custom immunizations, microfluidics, high-throughput imaging, genomics, computation, machine learning and laboratory automation. We’re revolutionizing how our scientists can explore antibodies and the scale at which they can do so. This is life-changing research and you could be a part of it.

You’ll join a diverse and multi-disciplinary team of biologists, biochemists, engineers, bioinformaticians, computer scientists and physicists – all working together to bring better therapies to patients. We’re a growing company with a high-throughput pipeline and the drive to be the best in the industry. This isn’t just about having the best technology. We know we need a world-class team of visionaries and innovators. We look for people with drive and energy. Idealists. People we love and people we trust. This may be unconventional, but it is the key to our success. We’re looking for someone like you to support, nurture and organize our efforts along the way.

To apply:

Please submit your application through our website and refer to Job ID 21269 in your cover letter. Only applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.