(Clinical Chemistry) Process Development Technician
About the role
Department: Science
Location: Oakville, Ontario HQ
Compensation: $40,000 - $50,000 / year
Description About you: You are a skilled and motivated Process Development Technician with a strong background in clinical chemistry and biochemistry assays. You will play a key role in developing, optimizing, and integrating assays into automated diagnostic platforms. This position offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge biotechnology innovations within a collaborative and fast-paced environment.
What You’ll Do: Reagent Formulation: Develop, optimize, and characterize clinical chemistry assays with emphasis on reagent stability, shelf life, and lot-to-lot consistency, evaluating formulation components such as buffers, surfactants, enzymes, and excipients to enhance assay robustness and performance.
Process Development: Support liquid and lyophilized reagent development, including assessment of formulation composition and interactions, while performing scale-up and process transfer activities to ensure reproducibility and manufacturability.
Troubleshooting & Continuous Improvement: Identify, investigate, and resolve issues related to assay performance, reagent instability, or interferences, collaborating with cross-functional teams to implement corrective actions and drive continuous improvement.
Documentation & Compliance: Maintain detailed records of experimental design, batch production records, data, and analysis following established SOPs and regulatory standards (e.g., FDA, CLIA), ensuring all activities are performed in compliance with Good Laboratory Practices (GLP).
Collaboration: Work closely with scientists, engineers, and manufacturing teams to support assay integration into automated platforms and ensure smooth transition from R&D to production.
What You’ll Need:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Chemistry, or a related field.
- Minimum 2 years of hands-on experience in clinical chemistry or biochemistry assay testing, formulation, or reagent development, preferably within a biotech or diagnostic environment.
- Demonstrated experience in formulation optimization, reagent stability studies, or lyophilized product development.
- Familiarity with enzyme kinetics and stability, particularly in lyophilized systems.
- Strong understanding of Good Laboratory Practices (GLP) and experience working with analytical instruments (e.g., spectrophotometers, plate readers).
- Proficiency in data organization, analysis, and documentation using MS Excel and related tools.
- Excellent attention to detail, documentation, and communication skills.
- Experience with cGMP practices and familiarity with quality systems and regulatory frameworks (e.g., FDA, CLIA, ISO 13485) is considered an asset.
Why Join Us? At Vital Bio, you will:
- Help turn reagent formulations into reliable, scalable processes that power our automated diagnostics.
- Your work on stability, lyophilization, and process transfer will directly influence assay performance, manufacturability, and patient impact.
- You’ll collaborate with scientists, engineers, and manufacturing in a fast-paced environment that values clear data, strong documentation, and practical problem-solving, with room to grow as we move from R&D into full production.
Compensation will be determined based on the individual’s demonstrated experience, education, training, relevant certifications or licensure, and other applicable business and organizational factors.
This role is a current, onsite vacancy.
About Vital Bio
Vital was created to enable proactive, preventative, and accessible healthcare. We're starting with a radically disruptive approach to lab testing. Backed by many years of R&D by world-class scientists and engineers, we are a team of collaborators, re-engineering the nature of care delivery.
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(Clinical Chemistry) Process Development Technician
About the role
Department: Science
Location: Oakville, Ontario HQ
Compensation: $40,000 - $50,000 / year
Description About you: You are a skilled and motivated Process Development Technician with a strong background in clinical chemistry and biochemistry assays. You will play a key role in developing, optimizing, and integrating assays into automated diagnostic platforms. This position offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge biotechnology innovations within a collaborative and fast-paced environment.
What You’ll Do: Reagent Formulation: Develop, optimize, and characterize clinical chemistry assays with emphasis on reagent stability, shelf life, and lot-to-lot consistency, evaluating formulation components such as buffers, surfactants, enzymes, and excipients to enhance assay robustness and performance.
Process Development: Support liquid and lyophilized reagent development, including assessment of formulation composition and interactions, while performing scale-up and process transfer activities to ensure reproducibility and manufacturability.
Troubleshooting & Continuous Improvement: Identify, investigate, and resolve issues related to assay performance, reagent instability, or interferences, collaborating with cross-functional teams to implement corrective actions and drive continuous improvement.
Documentation & Compliance: Maintain detailed records of experimental design, batch production records, data, and analysis following established SOPs and regulatory standards (e.g., FDA, CLIA), ensuring all activities are performed in compliance with Good Laboratory Practices (GLP).
Collaboration: Work closely with scientists, engineers, and manufacturing teams to support assay integration into automated platforms and ensure smooth transition from R&D to production.
What You’ll Need:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Chemistry, or a related field.
- Minimum 2 years of hands-on experience in clinical chemistry or biochemistry assay testing, formulation, or reagent development, preferably within a biotech or diagnostic environment.
- Demonstrated experience in formulation optimization, reagent stability studies, or lyophilized product development.
- Familiarity with enzyme kinetics and stability, particularly in lyophilized systems.
- Strong understanding of Good Laboratory Practices (GLP) and experience working with analytical instruments (e.g., spectrophotometers, plate readers).
- Proficiency in data organization, analysis, and documentation using MS Excel and related tools.
- Excellent attention to detail, documentation, and communication skills.
- Experience with cGMP practices and familiarity with quality systems and regulatory frameworks (e.g., FDA, CLIA, ISO 13485) is considered an asset.
Why Join Us? At Vital Bio, you will:
- Help turn reagent formulations into reliable, scalable processes that power our automated diagnostics.
- Your work on stability, lyophilization, and process transfer will directly influence assay performance, manufacturability, and patient impact.
- You’ll collaborate with scientists, engineers, and manufacturing in a fast-paced environment that values clear data, strong documentation, and practical problem-solving, with room to grow as we move from R&D into full production.
Compensation will be determined based on the individual’s demonstrated experience, education, training, relevant certifications or licensure, and other applicable business and organizational factors.
This role is a current, onsite vacancy.
About Vital Bio
Vital was created to enable proactive, preventative, and accessible healthcare. We're starting with a radically disruptive approach to lab testing. Backed by many years of R&D by world-class scientists and engineers, we are a team of collaborators, re-engineering the nature of care delivery.