R&D Specialist

Overview

Are you ready to accelerate your potential and make a real difference within life sciences, diagnostics and biotechnology? At Phenomenex, one of Danaher’s 15+ operating companies, our work saves lives—and we’re all united by a shared commitment to innovate for tangible impact. You’ll thrive in a culture of belonging where you and your unique viewpoint matter. And by harnessing Danaher’s system of continuous improvement, you help turn ideas into impact – innovating at the speed of life.

Phenomenex isn’t your typical scientific company. Founded nearly 40 years ago, Phenomenex is a global technology leader committed to developing novel analytical chemistry solutions that solve the separation and purification challenges of researchers, advancing the future of scientific analysis and investigation, ensuring the quality of essentials like your food, water, shampoo, and even cold medication. Be part of our global success and together, we accelerate the discovery, development and delivery of solutions that safeguard and improve human health.

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R&D Specialist is responsible for supporting the R&D sustainment team to develop new separation science products methods and techniques, execute experimental part of a research project, and summarize and report data. It will also be responsible for providing analytical support, keeping instruments calibrated and in excellent working condition and performing simple maintenance tasks. This position reports to the R&D Manager – Column Packing and is part of the R&D department located in Torrance, CA, and will be an on-site role.

• Executes sets of experiments according to existing protocols designed by supervisor and/or project lead to provide synthetic support to develop technologies involving surface modification of silica and polymer particles, as well as scale up efforts from small laboratory scale to pilot- and full manufacturing-scale
• Operates, troubleshoots, and maintains laboratory equipment
• Performs physical and chemical testing of chromatographic sorbents, HPLC columns and sample preparation products with limited supervision

• Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry or related STEM field with 2 years industry experience or Associate's Degree in Chemistry or related STEM field with 5 years industry experience or High School with 10 years industry experience
• Experience with operating laboratory tools and instruments such as analytical balance, pipettes, elemental analyzer, HPLC and/or GC. Ensures all work is accurate and free of errors / defects
• Must have knowledge of safety measures when working with hazardous chemicals

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls;

reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; talk or hear. The employee must have the ability to occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include ability to distinguish the nature of objects by using the eye.

It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in:

• Familiarity with Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and database applications

Phenomenex, a Danaher operating company, offers a broad array of comprehensive, competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether it’s a health care program or paid time off, our programs contribute to life beyond the job. Check out our benefits at Danaher Benefits Info. The hourly range for this role is $32.93/hr - $43.27/hr this is the range that we in good faith believe is the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting.

This range may be modified in the future. This job is also eligible for bonus/incentive…