Laboratory Manager, ECE Administration

Boston University • Boston, MA

2d • Onsite

About The Position

The Lab Manager serves as the operational backbone of the DAMP Lab, a cutting-edge academic cloud lab at Boston University that integrates biotechnology, software, and automation. This fully in-person role is responsible for overseeing day-to-day wet lab operations, maintaining a highly organized BSL2/CLIA-compliant environment, and managing institutional procurement, inventory, and vendor relationships via SAP/Ariba. Serving as a critical liaison between software engineers, automation teams, and external stakeholders, the Lab Manager ensures the physical facility seamlessly and reliably translates digital software commands into high-throughput biological workflows while supporting sponsor engagement and laboratory outreach.

Requirements

• Maintaining a highly organized BSL2/CLIA-compliant environment.
• Managing institutional procurement, inventory, and vendor relationships via SAP/Ariba.
• Serving as a critical liaison between software engineers, automation teams, and external stakeholders.
• Ensuring the physical facility seamlessly and reliably translates digital software commands into high-throughput biological workflows.
• Supporting sponsor engagement and laboratory outreach.
• Establishing standard operating procedures.
• Coordinating laboratory onboarding and safety training for all researchers and personnel.
• Tracking all physical assets within the university ecosystem.
• Maintaining tight control over facility inventory.
• Monitoring and reordering consumables.
• Anticipating the material needs of the wet lab environment.
• Ensuring that all necessary reagents and tools are consistently available as operations scale.
• Managing all procurement activities directly through institutional purchasing platforms such as SAP and Ariba.
• Processing orders efficiently.
• Tracking expenditures against grants and service-level agreements.
• Ensuring all financial transactions strictly align with university business protocols.
• Cultivating strong vendor relationships to obtain competitive quotes for researchers and grants.
• Coordinating with BU purchasing to negotiate service agreements and contracts.
• Overseeing strict equipment maintenance schedules.
• Scheduling preventive maintenance (PM).
• Managing immediate logistics for emergency repairs and technician service visits.
• Acting as the central operational bridge within the complex cloud-lab ecosystem to ensure seamless communication.
• Serving as the vital point of contact connecting scientists, automation engineers, software engineers, and project managers.
• Facilitating interdepartmental alignment.
• Translating physical laboratory constraints to software teams.
• Ensuring that day-to-day operations seamlessly support the lab's digital workflow demands.
• Supporting the lab's robust industrial membership program, federal sponsors, and public-facing initiatives.
• Executing flawless logistics for external visitors and promotional events to maintain strong collaborator relationships.
• Coordinating high-profile laboratory tours.
• Managing meeting logistics.
• Assisting with outreach events.
• Helping create high-quality presentations and promotional materials to highlight the lab's mission.

Responsibilities

• Overseeing daily compliance, managing non-hazardous laboratory supplies, establishing standard operating procedures, and coordinating laboratory onboarding and safety training for all researchers and personnel.
• Tracking all physical assets within the university ecosystem and maintaining tight control over facility inventory. Monitoring and reordering consumables, anticipating the material needs of the wet lab environment, and ensuring that all necessary reagents and tools are consistently available as operations scale.
• Managing all procurement activities directly through institutional purchasing platforms such as SAP and Ariba. Processing orders efficiently, tracking expenditures against grants and service-level agreements, and ensuring all financial transactions strictly align with university business protocols.
• Overseeing strict equipment maintenance schedules, scheduling preventive maintenance (PM), and managing immediate logistics for emergency repairs and technician service visits.
• Facilitating interdepartmental alignment, translating physical laboratory constraints to software teams, and ensuring that day-to-day operations seamlessly support the lab's digital workflow demands.
• Coordinating high-profile laboratory tours, managing meeting logistics, assisting with outreach events, and helping create high-quality presentations and promotional materials to highlight the lab's mission.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed