Environmental Monitoring (EM) Assistant

Job no: 508981
Position type: UW Student Jobs
Location: Not Remote
Division/Equivalent: Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research
School/Unit: Waisman Center
Categories: Interpersonal Communication, Critical Thinking/Problem Solving, Teamwork/Collaboration, Healthcare and Health Sciences, STEM

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Department Overview:

 Waisman Biomanufacturing (WB) operates as a non-profit organization within the Waisman Center, at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, following a business model that includes multiple cross-functional teams (business, manufacturing, operations/facilities, quality assurance and quality control) to support contract-based clients. WB specifically focuses on the production of drug therapies for early stage human clinical trials.

Anticipated Start Date:

 08/01/2025

Anticipated End Date (If Applicable):

  

Remote Work Eligibility Detail:

Not Remote

 

Anticipated Hours Per Week:

 Minimum: 10 Maximum: 29

Schedule:

 At least one four-hour block of availability per week within regular business hours is preferred. Regular business hours for Waisman Biomanufacturing are Monday-Friday, 8AM-5PM; evening and weekend hours are NOT available.

Salary/Wage Range/Lump Sum:

 Minimum: $15.00 Maximum: $15.00

Number of Positions:

 1

Qualifications:

 This training would be beneficial for a student who has an interest in a career in the biopharmaceutical/biotechnology industry and would like to have experience in a GMP-compliant manufacturing facility.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

Must be reliable, committed, organized, and able to perform the required gowning and light physical duties that this job entails. An interest in microbiology is a plus.

Position Summary/Job Duties:

This position requires following the FDA's current Good Manufacturing Practice guidelines for cleanroom gowning and good documentation practices. Training will be provided in these areas.

The Quality Control department is seeking a student whose primary duties would include the following:

70% of the time will be spent performing environmental monitoring of clean rooms for viable and non-viable particulate contamination. This will also include entering data from environmental monitoring into tracking spreadsheets and reading agar plates for microbial contamination.

15% of the time will be spent on general lab housekeeping such as washing glassware, stocking, disposing of cell agar plates, etc.

15% of the time will be used for other related tasks.

Physical Demands:

Must be able to perform the required gowning and light physical duties that this job entails

Institutional Statements:

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement:

UW-Madison is an Equal Employment, Equal Access Employer committed to increasing the diversity of our workforce.

Institutional Statement on Diversity:

Diversity is a source of strength, creativity, and innovation for UW-Madison. We value the contributions of each person and respect the profound ways their identity, culture, background, experience, status, abilities, and opinion enrich the university community. We commit ourselves to the pursuit of excellence in teaching, research, outreach, and diversity as inextricably linked goals.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison fulfills its public mission by creating a welcoming and inclusive community for people from every background-people who as students, faculty, and staff serve Wisconsin and the world.

For more information on diversity and inclusion on campus, please visit: diversity.wisc.edu

Accommodation Statement:

If you need to request an accommodation because of a disability, you can find information about how to make a request at the following website:https://employeedisabilities.wisc.edu/disability-accommodation-information-for-applicants/
 
 

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