Assistant Scientist
Reading, OHJobSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed 1 day ago
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The Assistant Scientist supports R&D and Quality Control operations by reviewing analytical data, laboratory records, and supporting documentation. The role checks data accuracy, completeness, traceability, and compliance with approved methods, specifications, SOPs, GMP requirements, and Good Documentation Practices. It also supports issue resolution, quality investigations, sample tracking, and collaboration with laboratory and quality teams.
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Job Description
The Assistant Scientist supports R&D and Quality Control operations through the review of analytical data, laboratory records, and supporting documentation. This role ensures testing data is accurate, complete, traceable, and compliant with approved methods, specifications, SOPs, GMP requirements, and Good Documentation Practices.
Key Responsibilities Review analytical data, laboratory records, and supporting documentation generated by QC laboratories.
Review results from analytical techniques including HPLC, GC, spectroscopy, dissolution testing, and wet chemistry.
Verify calculations, specifications, instrument outputs, chromatograms, and test results for accuracy and completeness.
Ensure laboratory documentation complies with approved methods, SOPs, GMP requirements, Good Documentation Practices, and data integrity standards.
Identify errors, discrepancies, atypical results, and documentation deficiencies and partner with laboratory personnel to resolve issues.
Review data associated with raw materials, in-process samples, finished products, and stability studies.
Utilize laboratory information and electronic data systems to review analytical data and track sample status.
Support investigations, deviations, OOS/OOT events, and other quality-related activities as needed.
Maintain accurate, complete, and traceable records.
Collaborate with QC analysts, laboratory leadership, Quality Assurance, and cross-functional teams to support testing and product-release timelines.
Follow all applicable safety, quality, regulatory, and site procedures.
Skills and Requirements
BS degree with less than 1 year experience, OR Associate/certificate/high school background with 1+ year laboratory experience
Academic lab experience counts, particularly for entry-level candidates.
Looking for basic, trainable laboratory skills: o GDP / good documentation practices o Lab safety o pH meters o Analytical balances o Pipettes/glassware o General chemistry laboratory experience
Experience with analytical laboratory testing and/or laboratory data review preferred.
Working knowledge of analytical techniques such as HPLC, GC, spectroscopy, dissolution testing, and wet chemistry.
Knowledge of GMP regulations, Good Documentation Practices, pharmaceutical quality standards, and data integrity principles required. Laboratory experience with HPLC, GC, or dissolution testing is a plus
We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to [email protected].
How this job compares
Set against the 1,437 open Quality Control jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$83–126K/yr409 salary ranges
- US median$24–29/hr448 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 89 open Quality Control jobs in Ohio and 1,437 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Ohio
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience — less than three in four Quality Control postings that state a minimum ask for (median 3 years, across 994 postings).
- Education
- 343 of the 1,437 open Quality Control jobs (24%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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