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Scientist, Automation and digitalisation

MinervaX offers you an important position in a rapidly growing and successful international oriented company. The position will be responsible implementing automation and digitalisation in the MinervaX laboratory within immunoassays and functional assays used for vaccine development. It is a unique opportunity to engage with dedicated teams in the transition of changing partly manual workflow laboratory into automated and digitalised processes. The lab is responsible for clinical sample analysis and research for ongoing clinical trials on a maternal GBS vaccine candidate. The position is based in MinervaX Laboratory facility in Lund, Skåne, only 40 min from Copenhagen.

 

Job description

The candidate will play an important role in automating laboratory processes related to clinical sample handling and analytical workflows, within cell biology, molecular biology and immunobiology. The candidate will help design and implement new technologies and systems to increase efficiency and compliance across teams and will be the technical specialist and lead within this field. Tasks will range from hands-on technical development and digital solution design to validating, testing and implementing the optimized processes in daily operation within both standardized laboratory workflows and more research-based processes.

You will work closely with Team Managers and the IT Laboratory System Manager to develop the right solutions for the teams and will be involved in both a hand-on in lab and the documentation and writing process.

 

Main job functions in details

  • Designing and implementing technological solutions
  • Optimizing the use of instruments and platforms across teams
  • Implementing solutions and equipment to optimize processes
  • Supporting compliance in digital systems (including software and instrument validation)

 

 

Job Requirements

  • Education as Master within natural science or IT
  • Experience with lab workflows, documentation, and regulatory environments
  • Experience with laboratory technology, data, and automation
  • Hands-on experience from regulated industries such as pharma or life science
  • Can translate operational lab needs into digital workflows

Additionally, the following qualifications will be highly valued:

  • Experience with software development, data analysis and data management
  • Experience with liquid handlers e.g. Hamilton Star or Integra
  • Familiarity with ELN and LIMS systems to support lab workflows

 

Personal Attributes

You have a passion about optimizing and automating laboratory workflows and thrive at the intersection of complex analytical workflows, software, and compliance. You are comfortable working in a dynamic and fast paced environment while keeping the focus on documentation and structure.

You have high collaborative and communications skills to successfully work across different teams and functions. You are a dedicated team player, and you love take responsibility of planning your day and tasks.

 

MinervaX

MinervaX is a Danish biotechnology company, established in 2010 to develop a prophylactic vaccine against Group B Streptococcus (GBS), based on research from Lund University. MinervaX is developing a GBS vaccine for maternal immunization, likely to have superior characteristics compared with other GBS vaccine candidates in development (www.minervax.com). The latter are based on traditional capsular polysaccharide (CPS) conjugate technology. By contrast, MinervaX’s vaccine is a protein-only vaccine based on fusions of highly immunogenic and protective protein domains from selected surface proteins of GBS (the Alpha-like protein family). Given the broad distribution of proteins contained in the vaccine on GBS strains globally, it is expected that MinervaX’s vaccine will confer protection against virtually 100% of all GBS isolates.

 

Recruitment

Please submit your application to careers@minervax.com. All applications must be in English and are treated confidentially. Please add “Scientist, Automation” in subject when applying. For further details about the job and the Company, please contact VP Bioanalysis & Analytical Quality, Tina Biehl (+4530770303). Application will be screened and interviews conducted on an ongoing basis.