Software Guidance & Assistance, Inc., (SGA), is searching for a Senior Research Associate - PHCS for a contract assignment with one of our premier Pharmaceutical clients in Tucson, AZ .
Responsibilities :
- Personalized Healthcare Solutions (PHCS) is dedicated to building a healthier future by advancing science and ensuring everyone has access to the healthcare they need.
- As a global leader in in-vitro diagnostics, we focus on developing innovative solutions that are crucial for decision-making throughout a person's health journey. Our work includes:
- Integrated Solutions: Bringing to market diagnostic testing, laboratory efficiency tools, healthcare digitalization, and decision support software.
- Precision Information: Delivering increasingly precise information through our products to help save lives, manage infection risks, and monitor the effectiveness of treatments.
- Companion Diagnostics: Partnering with pharmaceutical companies to create assays that identify patients who are most likely to respond to a particular drug.
- Designs experimental plan to support project objectives.
- Executes bench experiments; makes detailed and general observations and analyzes data.
- Prepares technical reports, summaries and quantitative analyses.
- Maintains complete and accurate records.
- Normally acts independently for developing methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.
- Identifies and implements improvements to work processes and laboratory environment.
- Recognized expert across a wide range of techniques and their application.
- Recognizes and documents activities for publication and/or patent potential.
- May participate in scientific conferences and contribute to scientific journals.
- Works on extremely complex problems in which analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of intangible variables.
- Exercises independent judgment in developing methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.
- Participates or leads cross functional technical teams such as a failure investigation or core team.
- Works well in a team environment by being a productive project team member, suggesting creative solutions to problems and providing input to project planning.
- Establishes interfaces across other organizational groups.
- Trains others in areas of expertise.
- May supervise lower level personnel and laboratory operations.
- Troubleshoots problems and institutes corrective action.
- Prepares and presents experimental procedures and results in group and project teams.
- Monitors work to ensure quality, and continuously promote Quality First Time.
Required Skills :
- Bachelor's degree (Life Sciences preferred). Master's degree acceptable with up to 1-3 years of relevant experience.
- 6-8 years of relevant post-college experience
- Knows wide range of experimental techniques and skilled in their applications.
- Acts independently to determine methods and procedures on new assignments.
- Capable with searching scientific literature to gain general and specific information.
- Skilled with use of word processing, spreadsheets, graphical and presentation.
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