Lab Services Site Lead

In this role, you will report to the Director and will work closely with the Avantor's Lab and Production Services professionals to serve our customers by performing customized, mission-based lab work and research protocols that help return time back to science.

Location: Spring House, PA

Shift: 8am-5pm (Monday-Friday)

Salary Range: $100K - $103K yearly annual salary

Benefits:

• Health and Wellness: Medical, Dental, Vision and Wellness programs

• Time Off: Paid Time Off (PTO), Company paid holidays, Choice holidays etc.

• Financial Well Being: Spending Accounts: Flexible Spending Account (FSA), Health Savings Accounts (HSA), commuter benefits, 401(k), tuition assistance, employee stock purchase plan discount

• Added Protection Coverage: To include critical illness, hospital indemnity, accident, legal, identity theft protection, pet, auto and home insurance

• Recognition: Celebrate your peers and earn points to redeem on gifts and products

What we're looking for

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in science, engineering or equivalent required

• Master's degree in science, engineering, management or equivalent preferred

Experience:

• Pharmaceutical R&D lab environment required

• Lab Operations and/or Lab Services environment

• Minimum of 2 years of regulatory environment experience preferred

• Strong communications skills

• Strong management and technical skills

• Knowledge of laboratory safety standards

• Experience related to risk management, quality, and compliance

• Knowledge of lean, six sigma, just-in time inventory management, and root cause analysis

• Ability to lead and make decisions with authority

• Must be able to lift 25lbs minimum

• Basic computing skills, including Microsoft Office Suite (or equivalent)

• Skilled at prioritizing tasks, problem-solving, and meeting deadlines

How you will thrive and create an impact

Avantor's Lab and Production Services team is a crucial part of the Avantor Services group serving over 500 customers in biopharma, pharmaceutical, educational, industrial, and high-tech industries with customizable, flexible solutions and end-to-end laboratory operations support.

In this role you will:

• Implement Lab Services, driving standardized and consistent processes across assigned sites. Assure sustained operations and compliance with SOPs and regulatory requirements.

• Be accountable for the deployment of Lab Services strategies and programs, ensuring business continuity plans are in place

• Be responsible for site lab services performance, including oversight of operating budgets and performance management. Monitor actual vs. budget and ensure accurate processing of change controls.

• Ensure data/information accuracy to support Lab Services metrics, programs, and performance. Maintain up-to-date and accurate inventory processes in partnership with the business and suppliers.

• Assure that all lab services contractors (Avantor, Agilent, CBRE) receive appropriate training according to the scope of work and monitor training compliance.

• Support the Lab Services team on innovation and process improvement projects. Collaborate with eCMMS team to support the ongoing maintenance of asset inventory and monitor the utilization of standardized tools.

• Support business partners with asset redeployment needs and collaborate on the entitlement/needs assessment process for the assigned sites.

• Act as backup for the Malvern Lab Services Site Lead, on an as needed basis.

• Develop and maintain strategic relationships between Lab Services, business partners, and outsourced vendors at the assigned sites. Champion an effective one-team mindset among contracted partners.

• Attend and/or chair program governance forums such as SMT and weekly operations meetings. Partner with EHS to ensure services align with safety policies and procedures.

• Serve as the point of escalation for lab services standards, programs, and processes within sites. Responsible for supplier issue resolution at the site level.

• Lead strategic projects and oversee multi-million $ Purchase Orders. Manage the project budget and establish contracts and site services agreements with outsourced service providers.

• Maintain regional data integrity and support lower dollar value projects. Compile, analyze, and share customer data for business purposes. Perform various administrative duties as assigned.

• Manage customer expectations, drive best demonstrated practices, and support harmonization and standardization processes. Make recommendations or alert leadership of impending business concerns.

• Assist with day-to-day operations and interface with various internal and external customers to support the scope of work.

Disclaimer:
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of employees assigned to this position. Avantor is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

Why Avantor?

Dare to go further in your career. Join our global team of 14,000+ associates whose passion for discovery and determination to overcome challenges relentlessly advances life-changing science.

The work we do changes people's lives for the better. It brings new patient treatments and therapies to market, giving a cancer survivor the chance to walk his daughter down the aisle. It enables medical devices that help a little boy hear his mom's voice for the first time. Outcomes such as these create unlimited opportunities for you to contribute your talents, learn new skills and grow your career at Avantor.

We are committed to helping you on this journey through our diverse, equitable and inclusive culture which includes learning experiences to support your career growth and success. At Avantor, dare to go further and see how the impact of your contributions set science in motion to create a better world. Apply today!

EEO Statement:

We are an Equal Employment/Affirmative Action employer and VEVRAA Federal Contractor. We do not discriminate in hiring on the basis of sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state/province, or local law.

If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact us by email at recruiting@avantorsciences.comand let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Requests for accommodation will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Please note that only inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to from this email address.

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