Tech Ops Scientist
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Oxford Nanopore Technologies is headquartered at the Oxford Science Park outside Oxford UK with satellite offices and a commercial presence in many global locations across the US APAC and Europe.
Oxford Nanopore employs from multiple subject areas including nanopore science molecular biology and applications informatics engineering electronics manufacturing and commercialisation. The management team led by CEO Dr Gordon Sanghera has a track record of delivering disruptive technologies to the market.
Oxford Nanopores sequencing platform is the only technology that offers real-time analysis in fully scalable formats from pocket to population scale that can analyse native DNA or RNA and sequence any length of fragment to achieve short to ultra-long read lengths. Our goal is to enable the analysis of any living thing by anyone anywhere!
The Details...
This exciting and challenging role is responsiblefor providing technical support and driving continuous improvements within end-to-end manufacture of novel fluidic chips / electrochemical arrays.
The successful candidate will work closely with Productionand Third Party suppliers to support and improve chip and flow cell manufacture.
- Supporting Production with technical issues using techniques such as failure mode effect analysisroot cause analysis and other six sigma tools.
- Data analysis & interpretation leveraging your programming experience where relevant.
- Establishing monitoring and analysis of in-process testing.
- Material and process characterisation & optimisation (design of experiments).
- Qualification of material / process / design changes.
- Identifying areas of Continuous Improvement; creating proposals evaluating and implementing.
- Investigating non-conformances; identifying and implementing effective corrective and preventative actions.
- Working jointly with Third Parties to establish robust out of house processes with appropriate quality measures.
- Working with external suppliers on specification setting; verifying and qualifying them.
- Reporting and presenting findings in a concise and clear manner.
- Documenting / implementing changes.
What Were Looking For...
A Materials Scientist Physicist Surface Scientist or similar with strong data skills and experience of structured problem solving ideally within a regulated manufacturing environment.
Experience of microfluidic system design manufacture and analysis would be particularly useful. Familiarity with typical cleanroom processes e.g. micro structuring and surface modification would be desirable as would experience of material analysis on MEMS structures and an appreciation of how the surface properties of such materials influence microfluidic systems.
Regular interaction with multidisciplinary teams is integral to the post; as such good communication and presentation skills are essential.
Change Control knowledge / experience is desirable.
Applications are encouraged from candidates with a relevant scientific background who poses good problem-solving / analytical should be highly motivated individuals who enjoy taking on new challenges are quickly adaptable in an exciting and fast-paced environment and who perform well under pressure.
We offer outstanding benefits to include an attractive bonus generous pension contributions private healthcare and an excellent starting salary.
If you are looking to utilise your skills to really make a difference to humankind then consider joining our team and apply today!
Please note that no terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of a persons gender marital status race religion colour age disability or sexual orientation. Every candidate will be assessed only in accordance with their merits qualifications and abilities to perform the duties of the job.
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Employment Type
Full-Time
