Manufacturing Technician (Biotech) Details

Manufacturing Technician (Biotech)

Inventprise - Redmond, WA

Employment Type : Full-Time

About Inventprise

Inventprise is a mission-driven bio-pharmaceutical company addressing global health inequalities by empowering people to live healthy lives. We do this by developing novel, powerfully immunogenic vaccines that have the potential to provide a broader spectrum of protection than currently marketed vaccines and that target disease for which there are no preventative interventions. We aspire to provide breakthrough public health interventions for all populations, globally.

Inventprise is led by pioneers in vaccine discovery, seasoned experts in manufacturing and vaccine development, and proven commercialization veterans. Leading the way is CEO Subhash Kapre, PhD, an internationally renowned expert in both bacterial and viral vaccines, and manufacturing. Dr. Kapre brings with him forty-five years of extensive scientific and commercial expertise from his work at the Serum Institute of India. Dr. Kapre holds over 50 patents and founded Inventprise in 2012 to continue his career long mission to provide vaccines for those most in need.

Join Our Team

Accelerate your career and be a part of a larger public-health movement/initiative. Working at Inventprise is not just a regular job. You will have the opportunity to work with globally recognized experts in vaccine development and manufacturing. You will work on exciting projects for respected partners, such as the Bill & Melinda Gate Foundation, which have real global impact. Our team is diverse, hardworking, and supportive. We inspire each other daily to do our best work.

Manufacturing Technician Role

Major job responsibilities identified are (not limited to)

• Support manufacturing process teams and maintain PPE stocks for daily operations.
• Daily collection of process waste. and discarding safely.
• Operate dishwasher and wash manufacturing process material as needed.
• Upkeep washer room.
• Perform weekly safety equipment checks of eyewash fire extinguishers and safety shower.
• Sterilization load patterns to follow and operate autoclave with materials needed for sterilization.
• Unload autoclave and distribute materials in lab and shelves.
• Maintain stock of clean autoclave materials in the manufacturing suites.
• Prepare needed media and buffers in accordance with SOPs.
• Clean and organize chemical/prep room.
• Clean and organize media preparation room.
• Calibrate balances in media preparation room.
• Organize lab facility maintaining proper organization and cleanliness.
• Daily monitoring and periodic cleaning of lab equipment incubators, water baths etc.
• Check HPLC eluate bin, recycle, and garbage bins as necessary.
• Collect biohazard waste from labs and place in allotted Stericycle bins.
• Maintaining a stock of:
  • supplies, process requirements
  • Autoclave supplies (sterilization indicator tape, Tyvek pouches, elastic bands, etc.)
  • PPE supplies: shoe covers, lab coats, beard nets, hair nets disposable gloves.

• Other duties as required.