AddressTitle: Lab Coordinator
Hiring Organization: Connexion Systems & Engineering
Compensation, Benefits, and Employment Type
- Duration: 1+ year contract
- Pay rate: $20-$24/hr
- Job Location: Waltham, MA
- Schedule: 1st shift, standard business hours
- Job#: bh16497
Job Description:
We are looking for a highly motivated Lab Coordinator to provide critical lab support as part of a dynamic lab service team. The goal is to enable smooth facilitation and effective function of the working environment by providing a single point of contact to ensure the smooth running of the laboratory environment. The Lab Support Coordinator will typically lead the coordination of services for a designated building or location.
Key Responsibilities
Enhance the Customer Experience
- To be the first line of support for the scientific community, reporting any concerns and ensuring these are closed out in a timely fashion, i.e., acting as a single point of contact and helping ensure minimal disruption.
- Meet regularly with laboratory service providers to ensure open lines of communication.
- Support needs of filing, auditing, and reviewing documentation in compliance with Customer procedures
- Meet regularly with key stakeholders (lab staff, service providers, management) to identify, review and resolve issues in a timely manner and/or escalate as necessary.
- To be the point of contact for equipment maintenance in liaison with team and customer lab staff, facilitating scheduling and hosting of engineering visits for maintenance and/or repair.
- Support decommissioning of old instruments and related documentation
- Assist in the onboarding of new instruments, coordinating with applicable parties to ensure timely installation
- Be involved in improvement work linked to the assignment.
- Perform other tasks as needed.
- Execution of regular inventory activities utilizing asset management tracking tools
Support your Team
- To work with Customer and internal staff to ensure quality and compliance within the laboratory.
- To work with internal and customer staff to help maintain lab documentation and coordinate archiving.
- To provide timely communication to lab users on impact of any site service work.
- This role will work closely with other teams to deliver lab support services seamlessly.
- May be required to cross-train and back-up other lab support areas.
Basic Qualifications:
- High School Diploma Required
Preferred Qualifications:
- Associates degree is required and pharma or chemical industry experience.
- Working understanding of GLP/GxP (desirable).
- Understanding of 5S principles (desirable).
- Experience within the pharmaceutical industry is desirable but not required.
- Understanding of chemicals and safe handling (desirable).
Other Requirements
- Ability to improve processes and drive continuous improvement.
- Strong verbal communication skills.
- Self-motivated and ability to work under pressure to balance conflicting deadlines.
- Aptitude for technical and practical matters.
- Experience working in a compliance driven environment.
- Service-orientateded attitude combined with innovative thinking.
- Strong team player with experience in a high-quality customer service operation.
- Able to complete relevant paperwork according to principles of Good Documentation Practice.
Physical Demands
- Must be able to remain in a stationary position more than 25% of the time.
- The person needs to occasionally move between labs, corridors, adjoining rooms, and buildings onsite.
- Frequently use objects, tools or controls, which will require regularly bending, squatting, stretching and reaching in order to perform in a service function.
- Occasionally move or lift up to 25 pounds (potential for occasional lifting of up to 50 pounds).
- Specific vision abilities required by this position include without limitation, the ability to observe details at close range (within a few feet of the instrument/equipment), distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus in order to perform the essential service functions of this position.
- Occasionally operates a computer and other office machinery, such as a calculator, copy machine, and computer printer.
- Use of personal protective equipment (e.g., lab coat, safety glasses, etc.) in laboratory.
Working Environment
- Must be able to work in a laboratory, controlled environments requiring personal protective equipment.
- Job pace may be fast and job completion demands may be high.
- Employee maybe required to manage hazardous wastes in compliance with company procedures & State/Federal/Local hazardous waste regulations. Duties may include: Identifying, handling, generating, accumulating, storing, labeling.
- Ensure safety, security, and the environment in all aspect of the daily activities, and any potential safety hazards are addressed and corrected immediately.
- Understand ergonomic relationship between people, equipment and working environment.
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