Laboratory Assistant

**Laboratory Technician (FSP Client Dedicated) - Belgium, Rixensart**

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life - enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research, development and delivery of life-changing therapies. With clinical trials conducted in 100+ countries and ongoing development of novel frameworks for clinical research through our PPD clinical research portfolio, our work spans laboratory, digital and decentralized clinical trial services. Your determination to deliver quality and accuracy will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on - now and in the future.

Thermo Fisher's clinical research business is a leading global contract research organization and world leader in serving science. We are passionate, deliberate, and driven by our mission - to enable our customers to make the world healthier, safer, and cleaner.

Within our Analytical Services team, we have a functional service provider solution, which is a unique partnership that allows our customers to use the experience of our staff, while allowing you, the employee, to gain direct experience working onsite at a pharmaceutical/ biopharmaceutical company, all while maintaining full-time benefits.

PPD are currently hiring for an experienced Laboratory Technician to join our sponsor dedicated team based in Rixensart for a 1 year Fixed Term Contract.

Job Responsibilities:

- Coordinate lab experiments on vaccines formulations including a variety of antigens modalities.
- Preparation of calculation sheets on Excel
- Complete formulation activities and relative characterizations in coordination with other departments.
- Participate to lab housekeeping including EHS aspects.

**Basic Qualifications**

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

- Bachelor in Bio-engineering, Pharmaceutical sciences, Biology, Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Biotechnology or Chemistry
- Ideally 1-3 years of relevant experience in practical lab techniques such as aseptic technique, buffer preparation, SDS-Page, DLS, pH meter, Osmometer
- Knowledge of Excel, Microsoft Word and Powerpoint
- Great teammate, eager to give support to colleagues
- Able to work in an agile and organized setting with structured timelines.
- Result-oriented, meticulous and structured.
- Ability to work with cross-functional teams and communicate effectively.
- Proficient in spoken and written French both scientifically/technically as well as conversational.
- Reading and understanding technical English
- Right to Work in Belgium

**Preferred Qualifications**

If you have the following characteristics it would be a plus:

- Experience with NAT-based assays (DNA and/or RNA analysis)
- Experience in pharmaceutical formulation techniques

Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Watch as our colleagues explain 5 reasons to work with us. As one team of 100,000+ colleagues, we share a common set of values - Integrity, Intensity, Innovation and Involvement - working together to accelerate research, solve complex scientific challenges, drive technological innovation and support patients in need. #StartYourStory with PPD, part of Thermo Fisher Scientific, where diverse experiences, backgrounds and perspectives are valued.Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.
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