Mon - Fri

Thermo Fisher Scientific•Richmond, VA

3d•Onsite

About The Position

This is a fully onsite role based at our laboratory in Richmond, VA at 2244 Dabney Road. We welcome applicants from all locations within the US. Please note that relocation assistance is not provided for this position, and any relocation costs will be the responsibility of the candidate. Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship. Must be able to pass a comprehensive background check, which includes a drug screening. At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life - enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research, development and delivery of life-changing therapies. With clinical trials conducted in 100+ countries and ongoing development of novel frameworks for clinical research through our PPD clinical research portfolio, our work spans laboratory, digital and decentralized clinical trial services. Your determination to deliver quality and accuracy will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on – now and in the future. Our PPD® Laboratory Services team has a direct impact on improving patient health through the expertise of scientists, industry thought-leaders and therapeutic experts. As the world leader in serving science, our laboratory professionals bring their commitment to accuracy and quality to deliver groundbreaking innovations. Discover Impactful Work: Oversees the quality and productivity of daily operations. Interacts with internal departments and identifies opportunities for process and efficiency improvements. Trains and schedules operations personnel. Prepares process documents, and acts as a back-up to management, when needed. Performs and/or delegates all activites necessary to ensure sample management deliverables are met.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification
Previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 0 to 5 years).
High / Secondary school diploma or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification
1+ year of leadership responsibility
In some cases an equivalency, consisting of a combination of appropriate education, training and/or directly related experience, will be considered sufficient for an individual to meet the requirements of the role.
Good organizational skills with the ability to adapt and adjust to changing priorities and to manage multiple assignments with challenging/conflicting deadlines
Strong written and oral communication skills as well as presentation skills
Competent with computers and enterprise applications
Critical thinking skills to support quality decision making
Demonstrated compliance with procedures and policies
Demonstrated leadership abilities
Ability to work in a collaborative team environment

Responsibilities

Creates work schedules and assignments, ensures policies and procedures are accurate, trains staff and assesses competence, participates in staff hiring, corrective action, evaluation, and career progression.
Responsible for sample accessioning, routing, storage, shipment, de[1]identification, relabeling, discard, destruction, and aliquotting.
Reviews and recommends process improvement and efficiency gains.
Recommends IT enhancements.
Authors, reviews, and implements procedural documents.
Defines and monitors performance metrics for quality and productivity.
Serves as a back-up for management, when needed.
Additional activities to support business needs.
Ensures that contracted maintenance and qualification of environmentally controlled units (ECU) or equipment used to prepare or store specimens is performed.
Monitors ECU trending reports to prevent equipment failure, ensures proper call response process and teams are in place to respond to ECU failures after-hours.
Investigates and resolves problems with samples or shipments and in Process Deviation Reports/CAPA.
Participates in audits and general capabilities department tours.
Responds to environmental unit alarms and participate in oncall responsibilities.