About the role
- Manage daily laboratory operations, housekeeping, facility coordination, and laboratory utilization.
- Maintain equipment and asset records, track preventive maintenance, calibration, repairs, and vendor visits.
- Monitor refrigerators, freezers, and temperature-controlled equipment, ensuring accurate logs and timely escalation of deviations.
- Manage inventory of chemicals, reagents, consumables, expiry dates, stock levels, and replenishment.
- Coordinate material receipt, storage, issue, dispatch, and maintain accurate GRN/GDN and movement records.
- Coordinate sample and material logistics between sites and external partners, ensuring proper packaging, tracking, and traceability.
- Maintain controlled SOPs, forms, logbooks, checklists, and other QMS documents, ensuring documentation accuracy and version control.
- Support audits, regulatory readiness, laboratory safety, biosafety, waste management, and corrective-action closure.
- Maintain operational trackers and coordinate with R&D, Finance, Administration, vendors, and service providers to improve efficiency and compliance.
- Bachelor’s degree in Biotechnology, Life Sciences, Microbiology, Biochemistry, Pharmacy, or a related discipline; relevant diplomas may be considered with suitable experience.
- Approximately 2–3 years of experience in laboratory operations, inventory, stores, documentation, or laboratory coordination, preferably in biotechnology, biopharma, CRO/CDMO, or regulated R&D environments.
- Hands-on experience with laboratory inventory, equipment records, temperature logs, material movement, and controlled documentation is preferred.
- Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, accountability, and follow-through.
- Working knowledge of SOPs, Good Documentation Practices (GDP), and basic QMS document control.
- Proficiency in MS Excel/Google Sheets, Word, and email communication.
- Effective vendor coordination, stakeholder management, and written and verbal communication.
- Basic understanding of laboratory equipment, cold-storage systems, chemical handling, and laboratory safety.
- Willingness to work hands-on and respond promptly to critical operational issues.
- Accurate inventory and material-movement records with minimal stock-outs and discrepancies.
- Timely completion of equipment maintenance, calibration, and temperature-monitoring records.
- Audit-ready laboratories with current controlled documents and complete logbooks.
- Safe laboratory operations, effective traceability, and timely closure of operational action items.