Engineer / Scientist Job Description
Engineer / Scientist Duties & Responsibilities
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Engineer / Scientist Qualifications
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Licensing or Certifications for Engineer / Scientist
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Education for Engineer / Scientist
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Employers hiring for the engineer / scientist job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Engineering, Science, Computer Science, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, Technical, Electrical Engineering, Environmental Science, Chemical Engineering
Skills for Engineer / Scientist
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Engineer / Scientist Examples
Engineer / Scientist Job Description
- Communicate (written & orally) complex messages clearly and concisely, and in a manner appropriate to the specific audience
- Indoor air quality surveys
- Respond to incidents, but more importantly
- Interact directly with project managers and clients to fully understand their respective needs
- Guide the team in the development of cutting edge products
- Act as the technical point of contact for the client
- Maintain with the client a trust relationship throughout the various phases of the project
- Be in charge of system conformity and technical risk management
- Iterate with clients over requirements
- Set and manage system and subsystem requirements
- An in depth understanding of the metabolic activities of the cell culture and implementing the right analytics would be particularly desirable
- Expert knowledge and experience in using systems biology approach to gain deep biological understanding
- Scale-up/ Scale-down of bioreactor processes is highly desirable
- Base- and Feed-media optimization to improve product quality and increase titers
- High-level expertise in Lyophilization cycle development, analytics, optimization, and scale up
- Biological vaccine formulation expertise would be particularly desirable
Engineer / Scientist Job Description
- Ensure that intellectual property rules are followed, and act accordingly
- Act as leader of continuous improvement activities
- Maintain complete, accurate, legible, secure, FDA-compliant and HIPAA-compliant records
- Identify long and short term goals
- Lead immunoassay development and standardization activities
- Assign, direct and evaluate the work of laboratory/research personnel
- Utilize targeted and data-independent proteomics and metabolomics technologies for the sensitive and specific quantification of proteins and small molecules for the diagnosis of disease, particularly when appropriate alternative methods currently do not exist
- Integrate proteomics and metabolomics technology to synergize with traditional and newer workflows, including histology and tissue-based genomics, to expand understanding of the pathophysiology of different disease states
- Leverage developed and implemented technological advantages to reduce cost, turn-around time, and error rates of existing platforms
- Communicate with outside scientists in academics and industry to develop collaborative projects and sell scientific products
- Experience with laboratory safety duties
- Demonstrated ability to understand and follow established experimental protocols
- Ability to collect data in a consistent, reliable and accurate manner
- Demonstrated ability to work as part of a collaborative team
- Strong detail orientation and ability to adeptly manage multiple deadline dependent priorities
- Prefer candidates pursuing BS/MS in Electrical Engineering
Engineer / Scientist Job Description
- May mentor/supervise a team of and evaluate the performance of those individuals
- Perform research studies within the themes of NanoES and NNCI, including but not limited to the technical focus areas listed above
- Coordinate and collaborate with team members within and outside the university on ongoing projects, taking the lead as appropriate on primary projects and within area of expertise
- Participate in the preparation of papers, presentations, and other scholarly reports
- Represent and help promote NanoES and NNCI to showcase its research in ways that will attract new students, collaborators, and supporters
- Serve as a contact person for NanoES and NNCI researchers, fellows and students on Institute resources, events, seminar talks and conferences
- Coordinate and manage NanoES and NNCI research projects and events, facilitate committee meetings, committee work, and coordinate communications
- Assist with the preparation and writing of grant proposals and project reports
- Help expand research, education and technology transfer plans
- Serve as the primary contact for NanoES and NNCI publications and coordinate with partners, public information and news organizations to ensure information concerning NanoES is current and accurately reflecting the institute goals
- Experience ordering and organizing lab equipment and supplies
- Experience with SIMD, VHDL/Verilog and code optimization is a plus
- Seven (7) years of experience developing network designs, for DoD or DoN Networks
- Demonstrated proficiency of protein purification experimental skills are required
- Must have strong organizational skills and the ability to prioritize personal tasks to meet deadlines
- Applies scientific or engineering principles in problem solving
Engineer / Scientist Job Description
- Dissemination of results and data to the scientific community and the general public (in the form of peer reviewed publications, reports, and presentation at scientific meetings)
- Apply knowledge of engineering and scientific methods and tools to optimize and achieve a total system solution taking into account environmental effects on the antenna/radome in an airborne environment
- Provides support of antenna receive and transmit characteristics for various antenna types, antenna measurement techniques, associated test parameters
- Perform calibration techniques and antenna test instrumentations
- Assess and resolve product/process issues throughout the product lifecycle
- Implement programs to improve quality and product performance
- Characterize, optimize, and troubleshoot product and manufacturing processes of parenteral dosage forms
- Demonstrates breadth of knowledge in cell culture development and operations with the ability to apply this knowledge to the design, implementation and interpretation of experiments
- Supports process technology transfer, process validation and the preparation of CMC documentation for regulatory filings for BMS Devens Cell Culture facilities
- Makes business recommendation to product management and engineering necessary for product success
- Must have the ability to operate and train team members on current instrumentation/equipment and learn then train new technology and concepts
- Must have the ability to operate and train colleagues on current instrumentation/equipment and learn then train new technology and concepts
- Work on several projects, simultaneously and successfully, in complete process ownership within a 24x7 manufacturing environment
- Work to establish practices which include employees’ positive involvement with opportunity for constructive input and action
- Establish accountability for problem solving and cost reduction, both on a permanent and ad-hoc basis, depending on need
- Support downstream customers and new product development
Engineer / Scientist Job Description
- Supports the preparation of CMC documentation for regulatory filings and responses for the BMS-Devens commercial manufacturing facility
- Interface effectively with all technical disciplines in a team environment to trade factors such as survivability, cost, weight and technical risk in arriving at the final design
- Evaluate single event effect rates, complete electrostatic discharge circuit analysis, and support unit/system electromagnetic compatibility and device/material susceptibility testing and analysis
- Research, recommend, and develop approaches to improve data reliability, quality, and performance
- Collaborate effectively with architects, modelers, data scientists, analysts and customers to maximize user experience and product quality
- Consult with customers, team members, and stakeholders to identify, understand and clearly define business strategy, objectives, processes, challenges and problems
- Identify data needs and proper methods for data gathering, integration and preparation, data quality and data governance
- Deliver and communicate status and results to sponsors, customers, stakeholders and users at all levels of the organization through reports, presentations and other means
- Collaborative with, mentor and coach other analytics professionals to continuously build a broader and deeper data analytics capability
- Plan and execute formulation and/or process trials to obtain samples to develop plastic film or laminate products meeting internal and external needs
- Laboratory experience with coagulation products preferred
- Experience testing i-STAT cartridges in all matrices (including blood) considered an asset
- Ability to work both independently and as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a multi-departmental environment
- Significant experience with data manipulation, graphical summary of large data sets and report writing (experience with JMP® and/or Minitab® and MS Office Suite an asset)
- Prior experience in new product development preferred
- Experience testing i-STAT cartridges in all matrices (including blood) is preferred