Laboratory Operations Analyst - Automation Engineer, R&D Therapeutics Discovery

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything.

Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com

Job Function:
R&D Operations

Job Sub Function:
Laboratory Operations

Job Category:
Professional

All Job Posting Locations:
Beerse, Antwerp, Belgium

Job Description:

About Innovative Medicine

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Join us in developing treatments, finding cures, and pioneering the path from lab to life while championing patients every step of the way.

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We are seeking a motivated Laboratory Automation & Data Engineer (I/II) to join our R&D Therapeutics Discovery organization in Beerse, Belgium.

This position is part of the global Discovery, Product Development & Supply (DPDS) Operations Team responsible for operations within the Therapeutic Discovery (TD) and Preclinical Safety and Translational Sciences (PSTS) organizations.

The Lab Operations team in DPDS Operations looks after the lab workspace and equipment to enable the scientists to focus on their science using a knowledge of project management, drug discovery instrumentation and automation, and process excellence to evaluate, develop and deliver drug discovery laboratory processes and infrastructure.

The candidate will work effectively in multi-disciplinary teams and collaborate with internal and external partners - such as IT, Safety, Engineering, Facility Management - thus ensuring flawless execution of all projects and processes connected to the lab workspace and automation in particular.

The function requires a hands-on mentality and the ability to work autonomously for longer term activities independently adapting to project developments and proposing next steps.

 

This onsite role focuses on the configuration of laboratory instruments and the implementation of automated scientific workflows.

You will support laboratory automation across discovery fields, reduce manual data entry and human intervention between instruments and software.

In addition, you will contribute to event-driven architectures and automated data quality control and validation with ubiquitous tracking of completeness, consistency, validity, and accuracy over time.

You will be responsible for:



* Design and implement automated lab instrumentation and workflows that span hardware, software, and data layers, liaising with ...