Tissue Culture Lab Technician

Company Operating Name: Segra International Corp.

Business Address: Unit 6, 30 Braid Street, New Westminster, BC V3L 3P3, Canada.

Job Title: Tissue Culture Lab Technician

Location of Work: Same as Business Address.

Wage: $24 per hour

Job Type: Full time, Permanent (40 hours per week)

Number of openings: 2

Job Duties

• Assist in conducting tests and analyzing plant performance/research on plant tissue culture media.
• Assemble selected tissues for production.
• Set-up of equipment to conduct tests and ensure safe operating procedures for the autoclave and laminar flow hood.
• Assist in performing experiments, conduct analysis and to implement the quality improvements.
• Maintaining a high level of accuracy while completing repetitive tasks for lengthened period.
• Work at high level of speed, precision, and accuracy during full micropropagation.
• Assists with research and analysis to provide customers with disease free plants.
• Aid the Company with our research goals.
• Able to work in a fast-paced environment while maintaining high quality standards.
• Ensures a clean working environment and highest standards of hygiene in the laboratory.

Job Requirements:

• A post-secondary completed education is required.
• Minimum 1 year experience in commercial agriculture or working in a tissue culture lab is required.

Work conditions and physical capabilities:

• Able to work in a fast-paced environment while maintaining high quality standards.
• Ability to sit for long periods of time without distraction or communication with others.
• Ability to withstand consistent tasks for long periods of time.
• Able to follow strict policies and processes.
• Ability to follow direction in hygiene process.

Personal suitability:

Attention to detail, organized, reliability, team player.

Work remotely: No

Language of Work: English

Benefits: Sun Life Financial Benefits, which includes Extended Health Care, Dental Care, Life, Long-Term Disability, and Accidental Death and Dismemberment.

All indigenous people, newcomers, vulnerable youth, as well as asylum seekers with valid work permits in Canada are welcome to apply for this position.

Interested may apply through email at segrainternational.hr@gmail.com