Lab Service Manager

Job Summary

Summary:  Manages lab services and staff within client locations.  

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Understands how R & D laboratories function and has a proven track record of supporting those activities at various complexity levels.
• Provides day to day oversight and management of the lab staff (Lab Service, Media Prep and Cell Culture Team), tasked with providing the following services:
• Glassware retrieval, cleaning, autoclaving, and distribution
• Distributing/purging lab coats and stocking safety glasses in airlocks
• Maintaining levels of common laboratory plastic consumables
• Dry Ice/ Nitrogen distribution
• Preventive Maintenance on Centrifuges, freezers, incubators, waterbaths, etc
• Maintaining inventory of common media, reagents and chemicals
• Routine and One-off Buffer/Solution preparation and distribution
• Cell isolation and maintenance, Cell thaws and freeze downs, plate preparation
• After hours on-call management (Research)
• Ensures staff is compliant with all contractual, safety and job-specific regulations.
• Responsible for process improvements, reporting and implementation of new improvement initiatives.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• R&D lab experience.
• Strong organizational and verbal/written skills.
• Self-Motivated to implement systems in place when needed
• Strong communication skills to engage with the client and the ability to work with a collaborative team
• Proficient with Microsoft applications as well as enthusiastic to learn other lab software/applications
• Establishing vendor connections
• Bachelor’s Degree in the Life Sciences ( Biology, Chemistry, etc) or experience in a lab / managing role for 2+ years

Preferred but not required:

• Experience with 5S and Lean concepts
• Familiarity with Electronic Logbook
• Knowledge of Cell Culture or Media Prep background information