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About the Role

Avantor is seeking a Biology Technician to support laboratory operations by performing routine biological procedures, preparing specimens, maintaining biological materials, and ensuring accurate labeling, documentation, and inventory control. This role is crucial for maintaining product quality, lab safety, and operational efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Prepare, handle, and maintain biological specimens, slides, and live materials according to SOPs.
• Support live product care and maintenance, including feeding organisms, monitoring health, verifying environmental conditions, and checking water quality.
• Ensure lab and habitat maintenance by cleaning tanks/cages/habitats, removing waste, and verifying equipment functionality.
• Maintain accurate labeling and ensure correct catalog/SKU identification.
• Support breeding/egg collection, prepare materials for packing/shipping, verify species/life stage/quantity, and flag shortages or risks.
• Conduct inventory checks, cycle counts, and stock verification.
• Follow biosafety, quality, and regulatory requirements.
• Confirm label accuracy and document activities accurately in logs, batch records, and systems.
• Report safety or equipment issues.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives to reduce labor, waste, and errors.
• Maintain clean and organized work areas.
• Cross-train to support coverage across multiple labs or work areas.

Requirements

• Basic understanding of biology or life sciences.
• Experience working in a lab or production environment.
• Ability to follow SOPs, standard work, EHS and biosafety guidelines.
• Attention to detail and ability to follow standard work instructions.
• Good organizational and documentation skills.
• Ability to handle delicate biological materials with care.
• Strong teamwork and communication skills.
• Comfortable working with live organisms.

Location

• West Henrietta, NY

Work Type

• Full-time

Education Level

• Bachelors degree

Salary/Compensations

• $39,500.00 - $63,250.00

About the Company

• Avantor®, a Fortune 500 company, is a leading global provider of mission-critical products and services to customers in the biopharma, healthcare, education & government, and advanced technologies & applied materials industries.
• Our portfolio is used in virtually every stage of the most important research, development and production activities in the industries we serve.
• We have a global infrastructure that is strategically located to support the needs of our customers.
• Our global footprint enables us to serve more than 225,000 customer locations and gives us extensive access to research laboratories and scientists in more than 180 countries.
• We set science in motion to create a better world.

Equal Opportunity

• Avantor is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
• We are an Equal Employment/Affirmative Action employer and VEVRAA Federal Contractor.
• We do not discriminate in hiring on the basis of sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state/province, or local law.