Mareks Manufacturing Technician – Lenexa, KS

Mareks Manufacturing Technician

Kelly Science and Clinical is currently recruiting for a permanent, full-time, fully-benefitted Laboratory Technician in Lenexa, KS. The Mareks Manufacturing Technician assist in tissue and viral culture of Chicken Embryo Fibroblast CEF cells for Mareks Disease vaccine production in a clean room laboratory environment.

Summary:

The production of the vaccine begins in the Marek’s laboratories with the receipt of highly concentrated primary CEF cell suspension; this suspension is then added to a growth medium made in house by technicians. Calculations are performed to reach a target cell amount per roller bottle vessel. Working seed ampoules are used to infect tissue culture vessels with a target virus particle amount to achieve optimal infection. These roller bottle viral cultures are then harvested, batched, and filled into labeled ampoules.

Responsibilities:

Aseptic Technique :

All laboratory processes must be performed aseptically. Procedures take place under a Grade A Laminar Air Flow hood in a clean room laboratory

Clean room laboratory work :

Requires daily gowning with sterile hooded coveralls, goggles, face-mask, two pairs of gloves, and clean room boot coverings

Ability to understand and follow Mareks Laboratory SOPs, Quality Assurance SOPs, Mareks Laboratory Support SOPs, and other SOPs as applicable as well as Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) & CFR Title 9: Animals and Animal Products

Documentation :

All procedures must be thoroughly documented, legible, and concurrent

Tissue Viral Culture

Performing and understanding of basic tissue and viral culture

Media preparation : Assist in preparation of growth medium and cryoprotectant medium to be used during various vaccine production processes

Laboratory Support area :

Dishware preparation outside of the clean room laboratory and helping with the process of placing filled ampoules on cryogenic vial canes

Weekend and shift coverage :

Mareks Disease vaccine production typically takes four days from start to finish, and the processing times range from early morning to late evenings as cultures are infected and harvested in specific time frames. Additional working hours may be necessary depending on harvest time

Qualifications:

Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree in a related field, preferred but not required

Manufacturing experience beneficial but not required

Physical Requirements :

Repetitions of squatting, bending, and twisting to remove tissue culture roller bottles from their culture racks

Frequent fine motor movement opening of ampoules, operating a syringe, opening, and closing of twist cap roller bottles

Pay : $21/hr PLUS $2/hr shift differential for weekend hours worked as well as $1/hr once fully trained on gowning techniques.

Hours: All shifts include weekend hours

05:30 – 14:00 (Wed-Sun)

09:00 – 17:30 (Wed-Sun)

For more information or to be considered, please contact me directly at Tierra.Barbour@kellyscientific.com or at 804-991-0745

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