Fortis Life Sciences® partners with diagnostics and life sciences companies to design, validate, and manufacture solutions to solve their complex development problems. Fortis’ tailored approach and end-to-end capabilities accelerate the work of its customers as they bring the next generation of medicines and diagnostics to market. Fortis serves a global customer base and has offices across North America including four R&D sites and three GMP and ISO 13485 compliant manufacturing facilities.

Fortis offers a world-class portfolio of in-house manufactured and validated reagents and solutions through our industry-leading brands: Abcore, Arista Biologicals, Bethyl, Empirical Bioscience, IPOC, nanoComposix, and Vector Biolabs. We are a single partner with the:
- Expertise to solve your most complex development problems.
- Flexibility to design and validate solutions.
- Scale to meet your manufacturing requirements.

Industry: Biotechnology Research
Company Size: 201-500 employees

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**The Opportunity **

Fortis is a global leader in life sciences and diagnostics reagents and solutions. We partner with our customers to design, validate and manufacture solutions to solve their complex development problems. Our Teams work together across various sites, functions & scientific disciplines to help our customers bring their innovations to market with confidence.

Under general supervision, a Research Associate will undertake a variety of laboratory procedures of technical nature. You will be handling sensitive equipment and reagents to generate reliable data and material in the process of antibody development.

**What you Will Do: **

- Performing routine laboratory work including but not limited to: cell culture, molecular biology, bacterial culture, phage culture, phage display affinity selections, small-scale protein production and purification, ELISA screening, live-cell flow cytometry, and related laboratory workflows within antibody discovery

- Maintaining equipment and assist in ordering and maintaining laboratory supplies

- Preparing samples prior to shipping them to customers

- Analyzing retrieved data and prepare reports for discovery projects and experiments

- Providing support for other lab members

- Development of new techniques and SOPs under supervision of laboratory management

- Use and maintenance of laboratory facilities and/or equipment

- Preparation of buffer stocks and reagents

- Organization and maintenance of cold-storage inventories

- Carrying out routine tasks accurately and reliably following established laboratory procedures and SOPs

- Additional duties as assigned by supervisory team members

**Education and Experience **: B.S. degree in molecular biology, biochemistry, or similarly relevant field with laboratory courses. Additional experience through internship or entry-level work experience in laboratory environments, especially in discovery biology, may be advantageous.

**Required Skills: **

- Ability to maintain quality, safety, and/or contamination control standards

- Strong attention to detail

- Mathematical aptitude for laboratory calculations (algebra)

- Excellent written and oral communication skills

- Ability to work autonomously or within a team

- Ability to understand and follow specific instructions and to communicate effectively

- Ability to consistently learn and perform all essential functions

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