Colorifix Careers

Role description:

We seek to hire a highly motivated and experienced Fermentation Specialist to be part of our Implementation Team, which will play a key role in client onboarding. Specifically, we are working with a number of mills and dye houses (the clients) across Europe that provide services to the international fashion and textile industries. In order to integrate our technology into their existing processes, they need to purchase and set up fermentation equipment at their facilities, or alternatively contract CMOs locally to provide an outsourced fermentation service to them. Given that this is a previously unused technology in this context, the Fermentation Specialist will take the lead in advising management teams of client dye houses and will work in tandem with other specialists from our Implementation Team, whose expertise will be in GM regulation and safety.

Reports to: The CTO and directors (CEO, CSO)

Location: Cambridge, UK, with frequent travel to Europe

Qualifications: PhD in a relevant life science.

Experience: Minimum of three years of industrial experience, with fermentation projects (1000L+) being highly preferable. Multiple product experience is also desirable.

The Person: Excellent communicator and flexible team player. Willingness to travel regularly (whilst abiding by COVID and other travel restrictions), with a focus on Europe in the immediate term, expanding to Asia.

Remuneration: annual salary of GBP £42,000-50,000, depending on level of experience.

Apply: Please submit your CV and cover letter to recruitment@colorifix.com. Please include the job title in the subject line.

Colorifix is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

At Colorifix, we engineer microorganisms that produce pigments for the textile industry. While we have a strong scientific team at the core, we complement our R&D activities with the development of software tools to assist the scientists.

We have an exciting opportunity for a front end / UI developer to join our informatics division. The job will involve designing and implementing user interfaces for a broad range of applications, including inventory and workflow management, data analysis, control of scientific/industrial equipment.At Colorifix, we foster a culture of collaboration, openness and transparent communication. We promote a balanced environment where anyone can discuss and share ideas, try new things, and have fun.

The informatics division works towards equipping Colorifix labs with cutting-edge technology for data collection and analysis. We think about how to gather data from both people and lab equipment, how to organise and analyse that data, and finally how to present it to the scientists in a meaningful way that helps provide deeper insights into their research.

We are building an in-house platform that standardises all our data models and helps us to keep track of all the data analysis steps. We now need your help to add the best possible UI experience to the platform.

Requirements

We are looking for a candidate who is passionate about both designing and implementing web user interfaces. You will be our chief UI expert leading front end development. Day-to-day activities will include:

– Gathering UI specifications from end-users
– Implementing UI for particular user activities following specifications
– Creating reusable components
– Optimising and testing UI
– Expert in UI + front end. It will be you teaching us how to do UI, not the other way around
– Experience with JS + front end libraries
– Experience or interest in Vue
– Experience with Python
– Experience or interest working with MacOS/Linux (Windows goes out of the window)
– Good DevOps practices, including proficiency in Git

Bonus requirements:

– Experience developing UI for data analysis and bioinformatics tools
– Interest in biotech
– Experience with UI testing, e.g. Selenium

 
Location: 9 Nuffield Road, Cambridge, remote work is an option
Remuneration: £45-50,000, possibility of additional incentives
We are a small team, so your work will have a big influence on the final product

 
How to apply

Send your CV and a brief cover letter outlining what kind of projects you like working on to recruitment@colorifix.com

 
Colorifix is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

As part of the Dye house production team, the Senior Fermentation Scientist will play an integral role in the day-to-day operations of Colorifix’s demonstration plant in Cambridge, UK. The demonstration plant seamlessly integrates Colorifix’s entire process from dye production via fermentation through to industrial dyeing and finally to fabric finishing. The Senior Fermentation Scientist will be responsible for the operation of pilot scale and demonstration fermentation systems whose products will be used by the dye team for small scale dyeing runs. The senior scientist will also be the dye house’s interface with the company’s R&D teams and be expected to lead and assist with the technology transfer of new strains and process improvements from the laboratory to pilot scale. Longer term the role may include having oversight of bench-scale fermentations systems for process development work at the Cambridge site. The role will also include the day-to-day management of junior fermentation scientists and/or technicians.

Essential skills and experience:

• Postgraduate degree (ideally PhD) in microbiology, bioprocess development or relevant biological sciences discipline.
• 2 – 5 years of relevant work experience in a fermentation development role, ideally at pilot scale.
• Excellent communicator and flexible team player that is comfortable working with, and being the interface between, R&D and manufacturing teams.
• Experience in line managing small teams made up of more junior scientists.
• Hands-on experience with bioprocess development and optimisation ideally including the use of statistical methodologies to improve key process parameters (e.g. DOE).
• Ability to plan, design and have oversight of experimental work to fixed deadlines.
• Experience of troubleshooting upstream bioprocess activities at lab and/or pilot scale.

Desirable skills and experience

• Experience in transitioning process improvements from an R&D setting into a pilot or commercial manufacturing setting.
• Experience in project management and in-direct management of multidisciplinary teams to achieve project goals. 

Title: Senior Fermentation Scientist

Location: 9 Nuffield Road, Cambridge

Remuneration: £41-45,000, depending on experience

Apply: Please submit your cover letter and CV to Recruitment@colorifix.com  Please put ‘Senior Fermentation Scientist’ in the subject line of the application.

Colorifix is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Role description:

We seek to hire a highly motivated and flexible laboratory technical assistant to support the Dyeing team at Colorifix. Duties for a Lab Technician will include: ordering, distributing, and maintaining lab supplies, cleaning and sterilising glassware, barcoding, assessing lab activity risks; organising and setting up experiments, collecting, testing, and analysing samples; good laboratory safety practice and waste management and monitoring. A principal role will be carrying out textile and thread dyeing and colour characterization on fabric using microbes. A candidate with a knowledge of microbiology and/or interest in the colour technology of natural pigments are encouraged to apply.

Qualifications: HND/HNC/BSc in Microbiology, Biotechnology; Colour Technology or another relevant subject.

Reports to: Laboratory Manager & CTO

Location: Norwich Research Park, Colney Lane, Norwich

Remuneration: annual salary of £20,000-24,000, depending on the level of experience.

Apply: Please submit your CV and cover letter to recruitment@colorifix.com. Please include ‘Lab Tech’ in the subject line of the application.

Deadline: The deadline for submission is midnight BST on 7th February 2021.

We seek to hire a highly motivated and experienced Microbiological Safety Specialist to be part of our Implementation Team, which will play a key role in client onboarding. Specifically, we are working with a number of dye houses (the clients) across Europe that provide services to the international fashion and textile industries. In order to integrate our technology into their existing processes, they need to purchase and set up fermentation equipment at their facilities, or alternatively contract fermentation companies locally to provide an outsourced fermentation service to them. Given that this is a previously unused technology in this context, and that the output will be genetically modified organisms which are then used in their existing dyeing equipment, the Microbiological Safety Specialist will take the lead in advising management teams of client dye houses on a number of areas. These include how to set up correctly and follow all necessary safety procedures as well as how to make adaptations to the plant where necessary. This person will work in tandem with other specialists from our Implementation Team, whose expertise will be in GM regulation and fermentation.

Title: Microbiological Safety Specialist
Reports to: The CTO and directors (CEO, CSO)
Location: Norwich Research Park, Norwich, or Cambridge, with frequent travel to Europe

Qualifications: Masters degree in Microbiology or Molecular Biology.

Experience: Minimum of three years in biological safety.
The Person: Excellent communicator and flexible team player. Willingness to travel regularly, with a focus on Europe in the immediate term, expanding to Asia.
Remuneration: annual salary of GBP £30,000-40,000, depending on level of experience.

Apply: Please submit your CV and cover letter to recruitment@colorifix.com. Please include the job title in the subject line.

Colorifix is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.