Facilities and Equipment Service Manager

BioLife Solutions is repeatedly named one of Washington’s 100 Best Companies to Work For, a list curated by Seattle Business Magazine. We welcome you to apply to join our dynamic, high-energy team. Here you will find a performance-based, family-oriented environment where authentic communication and treating colleagues with respect are required. Our employees receive a competitive benefits package, which includes generous company stock awards and a 401k matching program.

BioLife Solutions is a leading developer, manufacturer and supplier of class-defining cell and gene therapy bioproduction tools and services. Our solutions facilitate basic and applied research and commercialization of new therapies by maintaining the health of biologic source material and finished products during manufacturing, storage, and distribution. Our solutions offer commercial companies and clinical researchers significant improvement in shelf life and post-preservation viability and function of biologic materials. Our tools portfolio includes our proprietary, serum-free and protein-free, fully defined CryoStor® freeze media and HypoThermosol® shipping and storage media, ThawSTAR® family of automated, water-free thawing products, evo® cold chain management system, and Custom Biogenic Systems high-capacity storage freezers. Services include SciSafe biologic and pharmaceutical materials storage. For more information, please visit: www.biolifesolutions.com

General Summary and Purpose:
The Facilities and Equipment Service Manager is responsible for overseeing Facilities and Equipment at our WA
sites (Bothell and Woodinville). This position ensures all programs are in compliance with standards and policies
and are appropriate for use as the business grows. This position supports new product/equipment or system
introduction and process improvement activities through robust validation and qualification design and execution.
This position also supports servicing and custom builds of ThawSTAR products. The Facilities and Equipment
Service Manager oversees the facilities department and provides leadership, management and coaching to team
members.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Equipment Management
• Owns and oversees equipment/facilities qualification and preventive maintenance programs,
  ensuing compliance to all SOPs and Standards.
•  Ensures all equipment is calibrated, maintained and operational in accordance to the
  manufacturing schedule.
• Takes proactive action to ensure BioLife Solution’s operations continually using the most
  suitable equipment and facilities support systems available.
  
• Facility Management
• Ensure continual operation of cGMP cleanrooms.
• Manages cGMP facility pest control program.
•  Manages cGMP and non-cGMP cleaning program (non-clean room space).
• Manages facility access control program.
•  Manage facility waste stream program.
• Maintains relationship with Building Management.
•  Tracks all building maintenance requests to completion.
•  Manages facilities changes to ensure requirements of the space are met.
•  Develop functional KPIs and associated performance goals.
  Returns and Servicing Management
• Manages scheduling and completion of services such as PMs, trouble shooting, repairs, and
  custom builds and optimizations.
  Leads, manages, and coaches Team Members
•  Hires and trains members of the team.
•  Oversees the daily work of department team members.
• Maintains team member performance and terminations in accordance with company policy.
• Quality Compliance

• Ensures the program is compliant to applicable quality requirements.
• Determines quality improvement parameters by identifying statistical methods relevant to
  manufacturing processes. Owns implementation of quality improvements as assigned, in
  partnership with Quality Assurance and Manufacturing.
• Performs investigations and owns CAPA projects to effective implementation, as assigned.
• Be a resource for equipment and facility validation for other BioLife platforms.
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; benchmarking state-of-the-art practices; and/or participating in professional societies.
• Develops functional KPIs and associated performance goals.
• Achieves those goals.

Other Duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities,
duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and
activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Reporting Relationships:
This position reports to Vice President, Manufacturing-Media, Thaw, evo.
This position has direct report(s).

Job Requirements:

•  Proven experience leading, managing, and coaching team members.
• Strong interpersonal skills both verbal and written communication.
•  Effective decision making and analytical ability to render sound decisions and recommendations based
  on data, circumstances, options, and consequences.
•  Must be a strategic thinker with strong problem-solving skills.
• Proven equipment/facilities related project management skills.
• Strong attention to detail.
  

Job Specifications: 

• Education Minimum: Associate degree.
• Experience: 5 years of Biotech or GMP industry experience in program management. 1+ years
  Managing Equipment or Facilities
• 2 years Supervisory experience.
• Experience managing and developing team members
• Experience writing or executing validations.
• Experience overseeing and implementing large projects.
• CMRP Certification desired.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office programs (word, excel, outlook, etc.).
• Smartsheet experience desired.
• Must be willing to travel to other sites occasionally.
  

BioLife Solutions provides a substance-free workplace, and all offers of employment will be contingent on opiate drug test and background check.

BioLife Solutions is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status. 

The US base salary range for this position at full-time is $90,000 - $130,000 yr.  Our salary ranges are determined by position, level, location, and market competitive benchmarks.  Individual pay within a level is determined by work location (including geographic pay zone region), job related skills, experience, education, and training. 

The BioLife Solutions total rewards program includes, but is not limited to medical, dental, vision, 401K with generous match, life and disability insurance as well as time off programs of Vacation and Sick time.  Additionally, we believe in our team members sharing the success of our business and therefore we provide stock equity grants as a part of our total rewards package.