Mission Teknova’s custom capabilities and fast turn-around time allows researchers to achieve their goals faster and more efficiently. Teknova has an extensive range of products and has the ability to provide low minimum orders. Teknova’s capabilities are unparalleled in the market place. Teknova supports custom manufacturing for both research and commercial applications. Our mission is to provide high quality custom media to support the betterment of lives through science.
Description Teknova expedites clinical breakthroughs by allowing scientists to focus on discovery, product development, and production. An established leader in custom manufacturing for the life science, biopharma, and healthcare industries, Teknova provides critical reagents for bioprocessing, bioproduction, and molecular diagnostics. Product offerings include cell culture media and supplements, protein and nucleic acid purification buffers, and molecular biology reagents.
Priding itself on its agility and customer centricity, Teknova meets the most complex formulation and packaging requirements and delivers with unrivalled speed. The company supports research, clinical, and applied markets with catalog and custom products, delivering cost savings for research, development, and production of diagnostics, vaccines, and therapeutics. All products are manufactured in facilities that are ISO 13485:2016 certified, US FDA 21 CPR Part 820 compliant, and FDA registered.
As a partner to the biopharma sector, Teknova provides end-to-end solutions in the development of reagents and processes for a multitude of established and emerging applications, including vaccine production and gene therapy. The company’s R&D team offers expertise from prototype product design to guidance on GMP manufacturing of media, buffers, and reagents for the entire gene therapy workflow.
Teknova was founded in 1996 by Ted Davis, a Genentech scientist, who identified the need for custom media and buffers manufactured to the same quality standards as commercially available, inventoried solutions. The company headquarters and research services facility are located near the San Francisco Bay Area in Hollister, CA, USA, with additional facilities in Mansfield, MA, USA.
OUR GUIDING PRINCIPLES:
Teknova strives to develop people, not just careers and this mentality is embedded in our guiding principles.
We Are Teknova: We operate as a team, seeing beyond reporting lines, functions, locations, and hierarchy for the greater good of the customer.
Customer Obsessed (but not in a creepy way): Nothing is more sacred to us than our customers. Our actions, decisions, and processes are driven by the needs of our customers, rather than our own.
Built to Change: We are a company that is purpose-built to be flexible. Our processes, operations, daily activities, even our strategy are rooted in our ability to adapt and adjust to the evolving dynamics of the market.
Be Bold: We do not shy away from bold moves or disrupting the status quo. We take calculated risks to move our business forward and do so with smiles on our faces.
You be You: Our people are our superpower. The unique background and experience of each of our associates allows us to overcome our biggest obstacles quickly and creatively.
Teknova has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 79 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Teknova employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).
To get a job at Teknova, browse currently open positions and apply for a job near you. Once you get a positive response, make sure to find out about the interview process at Teknova and prepare for tough questions.
Overall, 51% of employees would recommend working at Teknova to a friend. This is based on 79 anonymously submitted reviews on Glassdoor.
81% of job seekers rate their interview experience at Teknova as positive. Candidates give an average difficulty score of 2.2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) for their job interview at Teknova.