Senior Biochemical Engineer
Salary up to: 70k
Onsite
Locations: Oxfordshire
Key Skills: Bioprocess development experience and small-scale bioreactor platforms.
Responsibilities Include:
• Designing, developing, and optimising end-to-end pilot-scale bioreactor processes.
• Developing and enabling technologies to facilitate scale-up.
• Select, implement, and develop experimental protocols and SOPs.
• Assist in drafting risk assessments and upholding health and safety standards.
• Design, plan, and execute R&D studies in line with project deliverables and timelines.
• Analysing and summarising experimental results and sharing insights with the team.
• Working with the cross-functional team to advance and commercialise products and services.
• Stay updated with the latest technologies and literature to spot opportunities for process developments.
• Shared responsibility for out-of-hours bioprocess operation.
You should have:
• Enthusiasm, curiosity, and drive.
• At least 3 years of bioprocess development experience in industry or a PhD in biochemical engineering, bioprocessing, biomanufacturing, or a related discipline.
• Experience with small-scale bioreactor platforms.
• Experience with mammalian cell culture and analytical techniques.
• Proven experience in cell culture.
• Familiarity with 3D culture systems
• Experience with CAD.
• Data analysis with non-Excel tools (e.g. Python, R, MATLAB).
• Experience with PFDs, P&IDs, and HAZOP analysis.
Desirable Experience:
• Experience with perfusion bioreactor systems.
• Experience with hollow fibre membrane bioreactors.
• Experience with membrane characterisation.
• Experience in muscle or fat biology, cell metabolism and development.
• Knowledge of the cultivated meat industry.
• Technical development and scale-up of bioprocesses.
• Application of Design of Experiments.
If you are interested please apply or send your CV to luke.sandilands@cpl.com