Laboratory Technician

2 Months ago • All levels

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Laboratory Technician at Illumina in Cambridge, you will be part of a dynamic team, contributing to specialist roles within the lab. You will demonstrate expertise and apply your knowledge to support innovative projects. This role involves close collaboration with other lab users and departments, ensuring smooth operation and maintenance of laboratory equipment, safety protocols, and quality standards. The role includes responsibilities like equipment management, participating in sales enablement activities, performing Illumina product workflows, overseeing waste stream management, maintaining ISO13485 lab processes, auditing access, participating in purchasing, overseeing lab systems, and managing operational improvements. The role requires strong communication and teamwork skills.
Must have:
  • Relevant experience in a laboratory setting.
  • Proficient with MS Word, Excel, and Outlook.
  • Team-oriented mindset and exceptional communication skills.
Perks:
  • Flexible time off
  • Private medical insurance
  • Compassion and care time off
  • Leisure travel insurance
  • Pension
  • Employee stock purchasing program
  • Volunteer time off

Job Details

What if the work you did every day could impact the lives of people you know? Or all of humanity?

At Illumina, we are expanding access to genomic technology to realize health equity for billions of people around the world. Our efforts enable life-changing discoveries that are transforming human health through the early detection and diagnosis of diseases and new treatment options for patients.

Working at Illumina means being part of something bigger than yourself. Every person, in every role, has the opportunity to make a difference. Surrounded by extraordinary people, inspiring leaders, and world changing projects, you will do more and become more than you ever thought possible.

Laboratory Technician - Cambridge, Great Abington (Onsite)
Closing Date: 23rd May 2025
As a Laboratory Technician here at Illumina in Cambridge, you will be part of our dynamic team, contributing to various specialist roles within the lab. You will demonstrate expertise in specific areas and apply your knowledge to support our innovative projects. This role involves close collaboration with other lab users and departments, ensuring the smooth operation and maintenance of laboratory equipment, safety protocols, and quality standards.
Illumina's employee benefits are industry-leading and include flexible time off, private medical insurance, compassion and care time off, leisure travel insurance, pension, employee stock purchasing program, volunteer time off, and much more!
Why You
You will have relevant experience in a laboratory setting, with a detail-oriented and conscientious approach to your work. You thrive in a fast-paced environment and are proficient with MS Word, Excel, and Outlook. Your team-oriented mindset and exceptional communication skills will enable you to handle sensitive conversations and build trust with colleagues and leaders. A BSc/MSc is strongly preferred, but equivalent experience or molecular biology laboratory experience without a degree is also valuable.
Key Responsibilities Include:
Technical Specialist
  • Equipment specialist: Serve as SME for multiple items of laboratory equipment, advising on usage and maintenance, and participating in equipment management processes for calibration, servicing, and record keeping.
  • Sales Enablement specialist: Participate in sales enable activities including lab tours, instrument demonstrations, workflow design, evaluation services, and customer throughput assistance.
  • Illumina product specialist: Explain and perform Illumina product workflows within the ISC lab space for sales enablement activities and for non-customer related internal staff and external visitors.

General Specialist
  • Safety specialist: Oversee waste stream management, chemical labeling, and participate in risk assessments in multiple spaces.
  • Quality specialist: Maintain ISO13485 lab processes, ensuring compliance with processes, documentation, and trainings.
  • Security specialist: Audit access and LMS compliance for ISC Labs.
  • Procurement specialist: Participate in large initiative purchasing (e.g., CapEx, bulk orders).
  • Stock specialist: Oversee operations of systems deployed in ISC Lab, monitor changes, lead set-up and modification improvements, and liaise with users for optimization.
  • CSU specialist: Oversee CSU program initiatives (defrost/Kaizen events, temperature monitoring, and ownership).
  • Operational Excellence specialist: Oversee 6S and operational improvements in ISC Lab.
  • Communication specialist: Communicate initiatives and progress, receive requests (BriefingSource), and liaise with Lab Supervisor/Request owner to coordinate lab activities.

What Can You Expect
Our team members are bright, energetic, and dedicated - they are the driving force behind our innovation and impact. To attract the best and brightest, we offer a competitive employee benefits program. We view it as a smart investment in our people, one that recognizes the tremendous value they bring to our business every day. At Illumina, we push boundaries. We think beyond the conventional. We dream big. With the energy of so many bright and accomplished people, the opportunities are endless.
INDEUR


Illumina believes that everyone has the ability to make an impact, and we are proud to be an equal opportunities employer committed to providing employment opportunity regardless of sex, race, creed, color, gender, religion, marital status, domestic partner status, age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, pregnancy, military or veteran status, citizenship status, and genetic information.

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About The Company

At Illumina, our goal is to apply innovative technologies and revolutionary assays to the analysis of genetic variation and function, making studies possible that were not even imaginable just a few years ago. These studies will help make the realization of personalized medicine possible. With such rapid advances in technology taking place, it is mission critical to have solutions that are not only innovative, but flexible, scalable, and complete with industry-leading support and service. As a global company that places high value on collaborative interactions, rapid delivery of solutions, and prioritizing the needs of its customers, we strive to meet this challenge. Illumina’s innovative, array-based solutions for DNA, RNA, and protein analysis serve as tools for disease research, drug development, and the development of molecular tests in the clinic.



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