Research Associate - Science Team (Weekend)
LanzaTech
Date: 4 days ago
City: Skokie, IL
Contract type: Part time
Welcome to the Post Pollution Future with LanzaTech
About us:LanzaTech was founded on the belief that we have enough carbon above ground to make everything we need. Through our biorecycling technology, we transform carbon into sustainable raw materials, replacing the need for virgin fossil carbon in consumer goods and transport fuels. We are building the circular carbon economy.
Our impact:To date, we have abated over 300,000 tons of carbon dioxide (the equivalent amount of CO2 needed to charge 30,346,895,586 smartphones) across four commercial plants, and will soon have the capacity to abate 500,000 tons annually with our additional future plants.
With dozens more projects in the pipeline, we are helping global companies like Zara, H&M Move, Coty, and On use recycled carbon to make sustainable consumer products from carbon that would otherwise be emitted from heavy industries such as steel making.
Our team:
We are a woman-led company on a mission to recycle the world’s carbon supply, and we want you to join us!
Key Responsibilities
This Job Description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee and may be revised at any time by the Company.
This position is open to candidates authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis for any employer. LanzaTech is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status.
We are not able to support work visa sponsorship with this role and preference will be given to local candidates
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About us:LanzaTech was founded on the belief that we have enough carbon above ground to make everything we need. Through our biorecycling technology, we transform carbon into sustainable raw materials, replacing the need for virgin fossil carbon in consumer goods and transport fuels. We are building the circular carbon economy.
Our impact:To date, we have abated over 300,000 tons of carbon dioxide (the equivalent amount of CO2 needed to charge 30,346,895,586 smartphones) across four commercial plants, and will soon have the capacity to abate 500,000 tons annually with our additional future plants.
With dozens more projects in the pipeline, we are helping global companies like Zara, H&M Move, Coty, and On use recycled carbon to make sustainable consumer products from carbon that would otherwise be emitted from heavy industries such as steel making.
Our team:
- We’re a diverse, woman-led company, with over 400 team members and counting
- We’re distributed around the globe—from Chicago and Europe to India, China, & New Zealand
We are a woman-led company on a mission to recycle the world’s carbon supply, and we want you to join us!
Key Responsibilities
- Contribute to and always adhere to all safety standards and practices
- Work on the weekend shift to cover running bioreactors to maintain continuous fermentation
- Collect fermentation samples in coordination with other technical staff; perform required sample preparation on samples outlined by experiment operators
- Prepare samples for HPLC and load samples on HPLC's
- Maintain accurate data sampling records.
- Communicate effectively with experiment operators about their reactors
- Share responsibility for maintaining sterile reactors with reactor operators and preparation of sterile media, stock solutions and buffers
- Write daily summaries and communicate results to supervisor and operators
- Maintain a neat laboratory setting
- Participate in general laboratory activities from the science teams including direct work in the synthetic biology department and media kitchen
- Experience working in accordance with good laboratory practices and adhering to safe standards and practices
- A basic knowledge of microbiology and biochemical laboratory principles; including the knowledge about fermentation and anerobic bacteria
- Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in a complex laboratory environment
- Demonstrated organizational and prioritization skills.
- Capable of time-management to complete tasks efficiently and within stated timelines
- Ability to work autonomously and within a team environment
- Has strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Proficient in standard computer/software programs (i.e. MS Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Bachelor’s degree in Microbiology, Biotechnology, Chemistry or equivalent, or in pursuit of an advanced degree
- A minimum of 2+ years of relevant laboratory experience, this can include lab course work in college if applicable
- Experience in fermentation and biotech
- Prolonged periods of standing in the lab and at a desk
- Must be able to lift to 50 pounds at times.
- On site only position
- Selected by the US Department of Energy to receive a $200 million investment
- Featured on abc7 Chicago News with Mark Rivera
- TIME100’s Most Influential Companies
- Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies
- Forbes: Synthetic biology gets the Gucci treatment
This Job Description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee and may be revised at any time by the Company.
This position is open to candidates authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis for any employer. LanzaTech is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status.
We are not able to support work visa sponsorship with this role and preference will be given to local candidates
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