- Oversee lab operations: Manage inventory, equipment, and safety protocols.
- Supervise lab staff: Ensure training, compliance, and smooth daily operations.
- Collaborate with vendors: Handle procurement, maintenance, and service contracts
Lab Manager
Services · Newark, Delaware A worldwide leader in developing and manufacturing recombinant proteins and critical reagents/assays to support drug development and clinical applications from target discovery and validation, candidate drug screening and optimization, CMC development, preclinical and clinical studies, commercial production, and companion diagnostics is seeking a Lab Manager. The company is committed to excellence in providing quality products and services and accelerating the process of therapeutic development.
Their mission is to accelerate the process of target therapeutic drug development. They aim to be a cornerstone company in the life science and healthcare industry. They value fast growth in a global market over a challenging time by excelling through quality, performance, and innovation, empowering employees with trust, value, and respect, embracing diversity, and encouraging cross-functional collaboration and continuous learning.
Job Summary
The Lab Manager will oversee lab operations, supervise lab employees, perform laboratory maintenance and safety training, and act as the safety and chemical hygiene officer. Duties include purchasing supplies, inspecting, maintaining, and training users on lab equipment, and creating SOPs. This role requires collaborating with outside vendors, keeping an inventory of reagents and supplies, creating and maintaining protocols for the lab, orienting new employees to laboratory practices, and guiding lab personnel in research safety training.
Essential Functions
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
- Ordering and maintenance of supplies, labware, and instruments essential to the operation of the lab
- Planning, developing, organizing, and implementing policies, procedures, and standards for lab operations.
- Managing all lab-related calibration, preventative maintenance, repairs, service contract renewal, and equipment upgrades
- Establishing relationships with external vendors.
- Planning and coordinating large-scale facility changes, including lab reorganizations and/or expansion.
- Anticipating, troubleshooting, and resolving problems associated with work within the laboratory setting, including occasional off-hours responses to laboratory emergencies.
- Working closely with the Facilities, Operations, Engineering, and Procurement teams.
- Other projects or responsibilities as required.
Minimum Qualifications – Education and Experience
- BS or MS degree in Biology, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, or related Life Science degree with 5+ years of experience in an industrial biotechnology setting with 3+ years of supervisory experience.
- 3+ years of wet lab experience and a broad knowledge of standard lab equipment
- Proven experience in laboratory housekeeping procedures, including maintaining inventory and equipment, ordering supplies, preparing solutions, and maintaining a clean and safe laboratory environment.
- Understanding of microbiology and sterile technique
- Knowledge of EH&S regulations and requirements for laboratory safety, including methods for handling, cleaning, and disposal of waste
- Experience and aptitude for the management of laboratory operations personnel.
Preferred Qualifications – Education and Experience
- 1-2 years of experience with Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) service.
- Experience and knowledge of ISO 17025.
- Experience working in a high throughput manufacturing environment and flexibility to adapt to changes in the work environment.
- Strong team management, communication, and coordination skills
- Strong sense of work responsibility and cost awareness.
Salary Range
Base Salary: $90,000 to $100,000 DOE plus bonus
Location
Newark, Delaware (On-site)