Lab Assistant

Crowdstaffing

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Madison, WI, us on site Until 8/23/2026 First posted March 22, 2025 Last posted March 22, 2025
Job description

Crowd Staffing

Roles & Responsibilites

Production roles

•Provide direct “hands on” help to the lead production scientist during intensive steps.

•Identify, locate, and retrieve chemicals, sub-assemblies, or supplies for production scientists. Purchase supplies as needed.

•Provide production step verification and initialing.

•Complete routine in-process assays, including SDS-PAGE gels and protein assays as needed. 

•Complete clean-in-place procedures for production equipment, including homogenizers, centrifuges, and chromatography columns.


Laboratory Maintenance

•Maintain general production lab 6S tidiness and identify organizational improvements.

•Complete daily routine maintenance of lab instruments (e.g. change AKTA pump rinsing solutions) and address autonomous maintenance problems observed during normal operations.

•Maintain Kanban of production supplies, including assay reagents, spray bottles, etc.

•Empty and clean waste tip and glass containers.

•Verify that equipment is powered down when not in use.

•Maintain support equipment, including gel electrophoresis units, water baths, etc.

Minimum Qualifications

Required Skills:

  • ELECTROPHORESIS
  • GEL ELECTROPHORESIS
  • PRODUCTION EQUIPMENT
  • PROTEIN ASSAYS
  • CHROMATOGRAPHY
  • Additional Skills:
  • FERMENTATION
  • KANBAN
  • LAB ASSISTANT
  • LABORATORY
  • MAINTENANCE
  • OPERATIONS
  • PRODUCTION SCHEDULE
  • PURIFICATION
  • SOLUTIONS
  • SUB-ASSEMBLIES

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

About this role

Summary

Assist production scientists with lab tasks, equipment maintenance, and sample preparation in a biotech lab.

Job title

Lab Assistant

Experience level

entry level

Industry

healthcare

Location requirements

Madison, WI, US; on-site role

Salary

Not specified

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

electrophoresisgel electrophoresisproduction equipmentprotein assayschromatography

Preferred skills

fermentationkanbanlaboratorymaintenanceoperations

Specializations

electrophoresisprotein assayschromatographyfermentationmaintenance
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Madison, WI, USA

On-site City