Biotech Jobs

Biotechnology is a growing industry, an exciting new field of research and development with many applications in healthcare and industry. Someone in a biotech job would be working with the basic ingredients of life – living cells – to create new products in response to worldwide demand for medicines and food.

Some of the fields in which you could find a biotech job include developing new strains of plant species to enhance food products; medical therapeutics which develops and produces new drugs to treat human disease, or Genomics, identifying genes and finding out how they work in humans, animals and plants.

Biotech jobs include scientists and researchers, engineers, computer specialists, medical associates and statisticians. If you’re attracted to a biotech job you will probably have majored in biology, chemistry, brain and cognitive science or chemical engineering. If you don’t have a degree and are still interested in entering this thriving new industry, you may be attracted to a job in administration or as a lab assistant. Biotechnology is a fast growing industry, and there are job openings at many levels for people with an aptitude for science.

You may be attracted to a biotechnology process technician job, with openings increasing in number across the country. These jobs involve working in labs to produce the substances like proteins or enzymes needed for biotechnical research. If your High School offers courses in Biotechnology they will often offer a BioWork certificate program, something that Biotech employers look for.

The employment prospects for biotech jobs are extremely good. Entry level salaries are around $30,000 a year, and biotech scientists with degrees can expect to earn around $100.000 per year.