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Career Opportunity – Research Technician, Molecular Biology

Renaissance BioScience Corp. is a leading global biological engineering company. We believe biology can transform our world by creating the things we need in healthier, more productive, and sustainable ways. Using our proprietary biological engineering platform, we create transformative solutions to real-world problems in global industries like food and beverage, agriculture, chemicals, and healthcare.

Looking for scientists, entrepreneurs, and imagineers.

We spend our working hours custom crafting microorganisms that help us feed and fuel humanity.

Interested in joining us? Let's talk.

Our Employee Values:

1. Communication = Open, honest, and effective communication is the cornerstone of how we work.

2. Teamwork = We are accountable individually and as part of a team. Every person—across all departments and levels—are valuable members of our team.

3. Entrepreneurship = Our company is founded on an entrepreneurial mindset driving technological innovation in biology. Asking "what's possible", and questioning "what's not."

Diversity, equity, and inclusion are integral to our company’s values and principles. We recognize that a diverse workforce and inclusive culture drive innovation, creativity, and better decision-making. To help build our leading research and development team, we aim to hire smart people who are self-starters and results driven. If you are a team player looking for an opportunity to grow your career in a fast-paced, rapidly growing life sciences company, please consider applying for the opportunity below today.

Position Summary

Renaissance is looking for an experienced, innovative, results-oriented Research Technician, Molecular Biology, to join our R&D Team. This role will be based out of our offices located on the University of British Columbia’s main campus, in beautiful Vancouver, BC. The Research Technician will be working as part of the Research team and provide technical research support for ongoing research projects, particularly supporting the development of our yeast, bacteria, and virus-like particles (VLP) RNAi delivery platform.

Reporting to the Lead Research Scientist, the Research Technician, Molecular Biology will be responsible for supporting and conducting strain engineering, optimization, and characterization experiments across a variety of projects to help drive innovation across all the company’s different business units. You will have the opportunity to assist and support in advancing the company’s strain creation and optimization platform as well as joint development projects.

Our ideal candidate is an independent thinker and problem-solver who thrives on teamwork in an innovative, highly collaborative environment.

Education & Experience Required:

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Assist and support R&D projects for strain engineering, optimization, and characterization for a variety of different industrial applications using appropriate molecular biology, genetic, biochemistry, microbiology, or cell biology techniques.
• Independently execute molecular biology workflows including construct design and assembly, gene editing, DNA and RNA extraction, PCR, RT-qPCR, Southern and Northern blot, transformation, SDS-PAGE, Western blot, cell culturing (yeast + bacteria), and other basic molecular and microbiology techniques.
• Collaborate and provide support for different scientific departments such as molecular biology, analytical chemistry, entomology, cell biology, and fermentation and food science.
• Foster an entrepreneurial mindset, bring new innovative ideas to the table and challenge the status quo; critically assess current methods and protocols and identify areas for efficiency, improvements, and innovation.
• Regularly provide updates on project progress and results; clearly and openly communicate successes, failures, challenges, and ideas.
• Foster an ongoing collaborative environment, leverage peer skillsets and experience to advance your own projects and offer your experience to help progress other team projects.
• Assist with general lab maintenance tasks.
• Additional duties, as required.

Education & Experience Required:

• BSc or MSc in a relevant life science (microbiology, biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, cell biology or similar).
• Laboratory experience working with yeast, bacteria or fungi is considered an asset.· Technical skills in molecular biology and microbiology (specifically microbe-based systems), with knowledge of synthetic biology, is preferred.
• Strong attention to detail, time management and organizational skills.
• Exemplary teamwork, collaboration, and communication (verbal and written English) skills.
• Entrepreneurial attitude; thrives in an innovation-driven, results-oriented environment.

Position Details

This is a full-time, permanent role. General workdays are 8:30 am – 5:00 pm Monday to Friday; occasional evening and/or weekend work required to meet deadlines.

We offer a supportive and collaborative work environment. Your compensation package will include many components, including:

• Salary range $45,000-$55,000 (Your employment offer will be determined based on many factors as part of our total rewards package).
• Employee benefits include our employee assistance program, medical, dental, LTD and life insurance.
• Generous vacation time.
• Company stock options.

How to Apply

Please email your resume and a brief cover letter indicating why you feel you are a fit for this role to careers@renaissancebioscience.com. Please indicate Research Technician, Molecular Biology in the subject line. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, ancestry, place of origin, religion, marital status, family status, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or age. We thank all applicants who apply. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted. No phone calls, thank you.

About Renaissance BioScience Corp.

Based in Vancouver, Canada, Renaissance is a global-leading yeast bioengineering company developing innovative, market-ready, functional microorganisms that provide cost-effective solutions to address environmental and industrial challenges in agriculture, animal and human health, food, energy, and more. Detailed information about the Renaissance group of companies can be accessed at renaissancebioscience.com.

Pay: $45,000.00-$55,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Casual dress
• Company events
• Dental care
• Disability insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Extended health care
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Stock options

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Vancouver, BC: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (preferred)

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree (preferred)

Experience:

• Molecular biology: 1 year (preferred)

Work Location: In person