Associate Scientist, Lab Operations, Discovery Biology

Location: 
United States
Job Posted Date: 
October 22, 2021
Opportunities: 
Full-time Positions
Population: 
Life Sciences

Roles and Responsibilities of the Position

  • Coordinate with Loxo Discovery Biology team members and facilities to understand the overall scope for each lab and work directly with  relevant team members to gather, revise, finalize and ensure delivery of the lab requirements (and associated documents) to the lab construction lead coordinators.
  • Actively engage in preparing lab equipment list and coordinate with internal and external resources to finalize and manage all changes to the list.
  • Actively engage in identifying equipment vendors and liaise in enabling purchase and delivery of the equipment to the SSF or NYC site.
  • Coordinate with SSF or NYC internal Facilities to actively monitor the overall progress of the lab build up to ensure alignment with the agreed upon lab build up plan.
  • Actively engage in operationalizing SSF or NYC Loxo Discovery Biology labs.
  • Facilitate in understanding lab ordering needs and coordinate with Loxo operations to create/extend existing procurement set up.
  • Lead in ordering and stocking up all lab reagents and materials once the labs are commissioned and maintain inventory to meet the labs’ daily operational needs.
  • Lead in setting up lab management processes, create necessary documentation, and manager user training to the lab personnel.
  • Contribute to cell line expansion, authentication, and banking.
  • Facilitate in managing day-to-day lab operational activities by coordinating with different team members to ensure the stated set up is appropriate.
  • Apply creative problem solving and resourcefulness to navigate through unknown events, able to find solution with moderate supervision.
  • Adaptive to change in priorities and able to navigate through identifying and managing the changes effectively.
  • Able to effectively communicate and navigate through technical and non-technical audiences across cross-functional departments within the company, vendors, and external collaborators.
  • Contribute to building positive, collaborative teams across various scientific disciplines and encouraging sharing of new ideas, and creative ways to problem solving. 
Job Requirements: 

Required Qualifications and Preferred Background

  • 5+ years of Biotech and Pharmaceutical industry experience in working in the scientific field with up to 2 years of lab management experience, and a bachelor’s degree or advanced degree in relevant scientific fields (e.g., biology) required. Experience in working with diverse set of scientific environments and able to execute requests with moderate supervision
  • Clearly understand the distinction between high-level scope and day-today operations
  • Comfortable in collaborating with the vendors
  • Good verbal, written communication, and interpersonal skills
  • Excellent organizational skills, efficient, with strong attention to detail
  • Ability to anticipate problems and proactively propose solutions
  • Experience with standard tissue culture protocols.
  • Proficient in MS Office suite 

 

Available locations for this role

  • South San Francisco, CA
  • New York City, NY

 

Physical Demands/ Travel:

The physical demands of this job are consistent with a laboratory bench setting.

The physical demands here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

Work Environment:

This position’s work environment is in a lab.  

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.

Location: 
San Francisco
Greater Bay Area
Peninsula
California