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    "description": "<h2>Overview</h2>\n<p> </p>\n<p><strong>Who we are:</strong></p>\n<p>At Dendreon, we’re transforming the battle against cancer with personalized immunotherapy. Our flagship product, <strong>PROVENGE® (sipuleucel-T)</strong>, was the first FDA-approved immunotherapy for metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer, utilizing a patient’s own immune cells to fight the disease.</p>\n<p> </p>\n<p>If you’re driven by the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on cancer patients' lives, we invite you to join our team. 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This position is ideal for a sharp, mature, and responsible self-starter with career aspirations.</p>\n<p> </p>\n<p><strong>NOTE:</strong> <strong>This role requires on-site presence at our Seal Beach, CA location.</strong></p>\n<h2>Responsibilities</h2>\n<ul>\n <li>Participate in activities involving calibration, validation, and metrology in areas such as temperature, pressure and time interval/rotation on incubators, refrigerators, freezers, centrifuges, fume hoods, biosafety cabinets, and other laboratory equipment.</li>\n <li>Performs routine building/office maintenance and repair activities.</li>\n <li>Assist with coordination between Facilities, vendors and building management to identify and respond to operational requirements.</li>\n <li>Assist with the implementation, revision, maintaining and review of company SOPs and policies.</li>\n <li>Performs Routine Safety Inspections. </li>\n <li>Support internal and external audit activities relating to GMP compliance.</li>\n <li>Responsible for completing all assigned compliance training.</li>\n <li>Support tracking and reporting of Facility KPI metrics. </li>\n <li>Participate on a scheduled 24/7 on-call rotation and ability to get to our site at any hour day or night in a timely manner. 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