Lab Technician - HPLC Specialist (Temporary)

About the role

A client in Stein AG is looking for a motivated lab technician (HPLC specialist) for a temporary, full-time position. The successful candidate will independently deliver analytical service projects using HPLC and other techniques, including method development, analysis and reporting to stakeholders within the business.

Key responsibilities

• Follow Stein HSE rules, raise the need for new risk assessments and make safety the top priority
• Deliver the analytical workstream within service projects on agreed deadlines, planning your own time and raising resource issues to the line manager
• Develop new analytical methods and validate them with internal experts
• Plan complex, multifactorial experiments that are practically feasible
• Manage sample reception and storage to avoid errors
• Carry out analyses to a high standard with good documentation and traceability, following validated protocols
• Maintain analytical equipment, troubleshoot with supplier support where needed
• Process and analyse raw data with existing scripts and develop new ones as needed
• Document and report findings professionally, create analytical metrics for stakeholders such as product marketing and R&D, and agree timelines with the line manager

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Chemistry or Analytical Chemistry plus 3 years in a practical laboratory role doing HPLC, OR a Master's degree in Analytical Chemistry with practical HPLC experience
• Practical experience operating modern UPLC equipment, method development and validation
• Practical experience with Design of Experiments
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to explain complex results to a non-technical audience
• Well organised and personally motivated to deliver to customers
• Fluent in English

Required skills

• HPLC and UPLC method development and validation
• Design of Experiments
• Scripting in R Studio or Python (advantage)
• Awareness of statistical analysis tools (advantage)