Proteomics Lab Technician - Mass Spectrometry
Jealotts Hill, Bracknell, United Kingdom
About Syngenta:
Syngenta is a leading agriculture company helping to improve global food security by enabling millions of farmers to make better use of available resources. Through world class science and innovative crop solutions, our 28,000 people in over 90 countries are working to transform how crops are grown. We are committed to rescuing land from degradation, enhancing biodiversity and revitalizing rural communities.
The role:
This is an exciting opportunity for a technically minded person who enjoys working in a lab-based environment to provide support for ongoing proteomic projects. Within our laboratory you will work on a variety of projects supporting Crop Protection and Seeds businesses. Projects require application of a variety of quantitative methodologies including, proteome-wide protein expression and post-translational modification profiling to fully characterize biological systems, chemical proteomics approaches to characterize novel mode-of-actions, and targeted quantification of endogenous and transgenic proteins. The main duties include routine proteomic sample preparation as well as operation and maintenance of state-of-the-art LC-MS instrumentation.
Qualifications
Experience & Skills:
- Ideally a background in protein chemistry or biochemistry, educated to degree level in life sciences or analytical sciences
- Lab-based experience setting up and running assays.
- Attention to detail
- Good computer literacy skills
- Ability and desire to work as part of a team and to work without technical supervision
- Well organized, to manage a variety of projects, ranging in complexity with different deadlines.
Additional Information
We at Syngenta will offer:
- Training for the role in a supportive team environment
- Flexible working patterns to support a laboratory-based role
- Campus environment based at Jealott’s Hill located in the Berkshire countryside between Bracknell and Maidenhead.
- Competitive benefits package, including relocation assistance
- Up to 31.5 days annual holiday
- Great opportunities for personal and career development.
- The opportunity to work with and learn from highly qualified and experienced scientists
- Good onsite facilities including a staff restaurant, a gym and fitness classes.
- A modern, stimulating and dynamic working environment which promotes diversity and inclusion, scientific excellence and collaboration.
- A job and responsibilities with purpose at state-of-the-art facilities within a world class R&D campus site.
Syngenta is committed to achieving workforce diversity and creating an inclusive working environment. We welcome all applications irrespective of social and cultural background, age, gender, disability, sexual orientation or religious belief.
We embrace and encourage diversity, and this is what drives our innovation and lets us outperform the market. https://www.syngenta.com/careers/working-syngenta/diversity-and-inclusion
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Company Description
As a world market leader in crop protection, we help farmers to counter these threats and ensure enough safe, nutritious, affordable food for all – while minimizing the use of land and other agricultural inputs. Syngenta Crop Protection keeps plants safe from planting to harvesting. From the moment a seed is planted through to harvest, crops need to be protected from weeds, insects and diseases as well as droughts and floods, heat and cold. Syngenta Crop Protection is headquartered in Switzerland.
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