Lab Operations Scientist

Job Description

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Instrument management which includes but not limited to scheduling preventive maintenance/ calibration/ IQ/ OQ activities, new equipment onboarding, moves, documentation maintenance, etc.
• Chamber management which includes but is not limited to cleanouts, defrosts, and equipment and reagent moves.
• Lab safety, housekeeping, and organization.
• Laboratory audits and quality assurance.
• Scheduling, communicating, and hosting vendors.
• Be able to coordinate activities with internal and external operations and service teams, service providers, site quality, and analysts to ensure lab operation activities are completed and compliant.

Education, Experience and Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent, in Chemistry, Biochemistry or related subject area, with a minimum of 2 or more years of related industry laboratory experience is required, or a Master’s degree with 1 or more years of related industry laboratory experience is required.
• Strong verbal communication skills are required.
• Demonstrates excellent interpersonal skills (written and oral) and the ability to work in a cross-functional customer-focused environment is required.
• Must have demonstrated ability to drive completion of activities in a timely manner.
• Experience working in a GXP environment is required.
• Experience with a minimum of three lab operation activities is required.
• Experience with electronic laboratory notebook, Microsoft Office products, SmartSheets, is preferred.
• Ability to work with limited guidance to plan, execute, and follow through with work assignments is expected.