Title                              Immobilization Group Lead 

Location                     London

Compensation        £60-70k based on experience, plus equity

Contract type        Full time, permanent

Company

FabricNano (fabricnano.com) is a venture-backed startup. We are revolutionising the synthesis plastics, flavours, fragrances, medicines, and more. By leveraging our ground-breaking Immobilization Engineering™ Platform we are creating the world’s largest enzyme immobilization dataset to transform a trial and error based industry into an engineering discipline. We have combined bioinformatics, protein engineering and our unique understanding of enzyme immobilization to develop the most stable enzymes in the industry for our customers. You would join a passionate team at a pivotal time to help deploy our initial products and solutions to the market.

Role

As the Immobilization Group Lead you are empowered with leading scientific excellence in enzyme immobilization and the trust of your team to own and support the venture of creating a sustainable future powered by enzymes. You are fair and decisive about the performance of team members and are invested in their success. You understand that said success is essential to the success of the mission and for meeting the scientific bar and results you envision for the team in collaboration with colleagues in scientific leadership positions. You will bring ideas, structure and the ability to create an environment in which your team members and those that you work with can thrive. You appreciate the value of process and are able to prioritise outside of your own field of view by consulting with senior leaders at FabricNano. This is the most exciting mission!

Responsibilities

Leading:

• Leading the Immobilization Team function to continued success at FN in a collaborative, transparent and delivery focussed way to bolster our continued and future success.
• Instil scientific excellence through empowerment and trust whilst holding the bar high for the quality of scientific results
• Evolve our current enzyme immobilization and characterisation practices to the next level of industry-leading standards
• Leading your fellow scientists and pushing their personal and professional development through training and coaching.

Process:

• Support our automation team to help enable a fully automated immobilization platform, whilst minimising error and maximising our throughput.

In the lab:

• Support the team on the delivery of business-critical OKRs and troubleshooting where needed.
• Collaboratively design and use of DoE to optimise the best conditions for maximal performance of immobilized enzymes.

At the desk:

• Ensures excellent and timely scientific documentation for internal, external reports, processes and SOPs from the assay team.
• Ensure scientific data is quantified with high accuracy and precision, is recorded to a high standard, that is both transparent and peer-reviewed where necessary.
• Work with Data Team to capture key results that adhere to FAIR data principles and automate their analysis where possible.

Requirements

Essential:

• 5- 7 years’ experience in a wet lab environment.
• Experience in an enzyme immobilization environment in industry or as a Postdoc, including characterisation.
• Experience leading projects and small teams with multiple stakeholders and scientists.
• Experience working on medium to large scale (1m - 100mL, 100mL - 1L).
• Fluency in both technical and conversational English.
• Experience as a people manager, enhancing the growth of others (supervising the research of PhD students does not count).

Desired:

• Experience with flow reactors or STRs.
• Experience with transforming low throughput methods into high throughput.
• Enthusiasm for lab automation.

What you'll receive

Financial

A generous stock option plan 📈

Time Off

20 days annual leave + 3 days Christmas closure + 8 days bank holiday 🌞

An additional days' leave with every year of service (up to 10 days) 🗓

Generous sick leave and mental health days 🤒

Enhanced parental leave (16 weeks full pay for primary caregiver, 8 weeks full pay for secondary caregiver) 🍼

Wellbeing

We partner with Oliva to provide remote emotional support to staff 🧠

Financial coaching through Bippit 💰

Development

£200 professional learning and development stipend 🧑‍🏫

£100 personal development stipend 🎾

Plus books, courses and events. We encourage personal development in every form 📚

Team-building

Weekly bagel mornings 🥯

A range of social events 🎳

Our Company Values

• Always choose candor.
• Be curious about each other’s work.
• Busy doesn't count; results do.
• If you aren't thriving, your work isn't thriving.
• This is your business.

If you have a medical condition or an individual need for an adjustment to our process, and you believe this may affect your ability to be at your best, please let us know so we can talk about how we can best support you and make any adjustments that may be needed.

Equal Opportunity Employer. We are proud of our commitment to diversity & inclusion.

How to apply. Applications will be considered on a first-come, first-served basis.