Biosafety and Laboratory Specialist

Great Hill Solutions, LLC is part of the Seneca Nation Group (SNG) portfolio of companies. SNG is Seneca Holdings' federal government contracting business that meets mission-critical needs of federal civilian, defense, and intelligence community customers. Our portfolio comprises multiple subsidiaries that participate in the Small Business Administration 8(a) program. To learn more about SNG, visit the website and follow us on LinkedIn.

Our team of talented individuals is what makes us successful. To support our team, we provide a balanced mix of benefits and programs. Your total rewards package includes competitive pay, benefits, and perks, flexible work-life balance, professional development opportunities, and performance and recognition programs. We offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, life, and disability, voluntary benefit programs (critical illness, hospital, and accident), health savings and flexible spending accounts, and retirement 401K plan. One of our fundamental principles is to offer competitive health and welfare benefits to our team members, providing coverage and care for you and your family. Full-time employees working at least 30 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in our benefits and paid leave programs. We pride ourselves on our collaborative work environment and culture, which embraces our mission of providing financial and non-financial benefits back to the members of the Seneca Nation.

Great Hill Solutions, LLC is seeking a qualified Biosafety and Laboratory Specialist to support the CDC. This role is essential for ensuring the safety, quality, and compliance of laboratory operations related to respiratory virus diagnostics, surveillance, and research. The specialist will contribute to the development and implementation of laboratory protocols, quality management systems, and biosafety practices in alignment with CDC standards.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Perform molecular assays to detect, type, and characterize respiratory viruses and viral vaccine preventable diseases.
• Design, evaluate, and distribute diagnostic platforms for the detection of COVID and other respiratory viruses.
• Participate in burden of disease and etiology studies of respiratory diseases.
• Work within guidelines of auditing bodies such as CMS or CAP.
• Promote laboratory safety, quality management systems (QMS), and effective specimen management.
• Draft SOPs, worksheets, job aids, validation plans, and validation reports.
• Maintain medical clearance for laboratory work, including respiratory fit testing.
• Prepare documentation and laboratories for internal and external audits.
• Maintain laboratory records and contribute to scientific publications and presentations.
• Perform serological surveillance and develop new serological assays for respiratory viruses.
• Conduct advanced cellular immunological assessments and develop monoclonal antibodies.
• Generate and characterize respiratory virus isolates and perform neutralizing antibody assays.
• Adapt molecular techniques to automated platforms and perform advanced sequencing assays.
• Support pathogen discovery and characterization of novel emerging viruses.

Basic Qualifications:

• Mid-Level: BA/BS with 3–10+ years’ experience, MS with 0–7+ years’ experience, or PhD with 0–3+ years’ experience.

Desired Qualifications:

• Work experience in the scientific field, including microbiologist, research microbiologist, biologist, health scientist or related field (preferably in a public health setting).
• Knowledge of and experience working with clinical data.
• Knowledge of and experience working with human specimens.
• Knowledge and experience of sequencing assays and sequencing platforms.
• Expertise in the use of Microsoft Office (i.e., Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook Mail).
• Ability to identify gaps in existing resources.
• Ability to be flexible.
• Interpersonal communication: telephone, email, and business etiquette.
• Scientific communication: manuscript writing, figure drafting, and verbal presentation.
• Strong proofreading skill and attention to detail.
• Strong organizational skills.
• Experience working with CDC staff at multiple organizational levels.