Protein Analysis Technical Expert

Full-time

Company Description

As a world market leader in crop protection, we help farmers to counter these threats and ensure enough safe, nutritious, affordable food for all – while minimizing the use of land and other agricultural inputs. Syngenta Crop Protection keeps plants safe from planting to harvesting. From the moment a seed is planted through to harvest, crops need to be protected from weeds, insects and diseases as well as droughts and floods, heat and cold. Syngenta Crop Protection is headquartered in Switzerland.

Job Description

Protein Analysis Technical Expert

Jealotts Hill Research Centre, Bracknell, United Kingdom

About Syngenta:

Syngenta is a leading agriculture company helping to improve global food security by enabling millions of farmers to make better use of available resources. Through world class science and innovative crop solutions, our 28,000 people in over 90 countries are working to transform how crops are grown. We are committed to rescuing land from degradation, enhancing biodiversity and revitalizing rural communities.

This is an exciting opportunity for a technically minded person who enjoys working in a lab-based environment to provide support for ongoing proteomic projects. Within our laboratory you will work on a variety of projects supporting Crop Protection and Seeds businesses. Projects require application of a variety of quantitative methodologies including, proteome-wide protein expression and post-translational modification profiling to fully characterize biological systems, chemical proteomics approaches to characterize novel mode-of-actions, and targeted quantification of endogenous and transgenic proteins. The main duties include routine proteomic sample preparation as well as operation and maintenance of state-of-the-art LC-MS instrumentation.

Qualifications

Experience & Skills:

Ideally a background in protein chemistry or biochemistry, educated to degree level in life sciences or analytical sciences
Lab-based experience setting up and running assays
Attention to detail
Good computer literacy skills
Ability and desire to work as part of a team and to work without technical supervision
Well organized, to manage a variety of projects, ranging in complexity with different deadlines.

Additional Information

Syngenta will offer:

Be part of the world's leading Agribusiness company, operating within a challenging international business environment
Work within an experienced proteomics team, with opportunities to contribute and gain experience in the application of quantitative mass spectrometry-based proteomics
An open, supportive, and collaborative working culture
Good opportunities for personal development and career progression
A permanent, fulltime role, based on-site at our Jealott’s Hill Campus, Bracknell, England
Competitive salary and benefits scheme

Syngenta is committed to achieving workforce diversity and creating an inclusive working environment. We welcome all applications irrespective of social and cultural background, age, gender, disability, sexual orientation or religious belief.

We embrace and encourage diversity, and this is what drives our innovation and lets us outperform the market. https://www.syngenta.com/careers/working-syngenta/diversity-and-inclusion

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