Lab Manager Job Description
Lab Manager Duties & Responsibilities
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Lab Manager Qualifications
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Licensing or Certifications for Lab Manager
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Education for Lab Manager
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Skills for Lab Manager
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Lab Manager Examples
Lab Manager Job Description
- Contribute to the preparation of papers for publication, especially in the results section
- Help with general lab maintenance as needed, manage lab stock, manage inventories
- Provide weekly maintenance and tuning for laboratory mass cytometer
- Formally supervise and train new staff or students as needed, including hiring, performance management, and related duties, in addition to instruction on techniques and consultation on project work
- Interact with outside lab to resolve technical-analytical problems including OOS/OOT investigations
- Lead, motivate, train and develop the Hardlines lab team, ensuring they are fully engaged in a safe working environment
- Have attention to detail and support quality control measures
- Be a team player, versatile, and organized within a highly active work environment
- Operation and support of a RF and Microwave Electronic’s Test Equipment Lab under minimal supervision
- Offer technical assistance to the engineering team that may include soldering, light machining, repair, fabrication of test enclosures, ordering of parts, in-house replacement of equipment parts or modules
- Develops departmental technical capability and manage a large department with varied experienced level
- Knowledge of methods, materials and techniques used in testing various materials
- Must be highly motivated and able to work independently in a fast paced environment
- Must possess ACI Lab level 2 certification
- Construction experience desired
- 3-5 years working in an orthotic/prosthetic fabrication facility required
Lab Manager Job Description
- Monitors productivity standards and supply budget
- Develops yearly budgets to include capital, operations, and work load
- Develops projections for future needs
- Creates monitors to develop data to support sound business and strategic decisions
- Analyzes data to support sound business and strategic decisions
- Recognizes, explains, and resolves variances
- Participates in facility and Ministry committees and initiatives
- Guide the research initiatives of others
- Manage operations in existing research and fabrication facilities
- Collaborate on research initiatives with external partners of the Microrobotics Lab
- Develops analytical strategy and test plans, assuring that all regulatory requirements are met
- Familiarity with network concepts is a must routers, switchs, gateways, DNS, load balancers
- Work closely with environmental health and safety manager to ensure a safe work environment for all laboratory personnel
- Ability to present results using graphing programs
- Strong communication skills, scientific and business writing skills, attention to detail and the ability to multi-task are essential
- Must have the ability to learn new technologies
Lab Manager Job Description
- Supervise resource planning for absences (vacations, training)
- Train employees on company and industry standards such as IPC-A-610 Acceptability of Electronics Assemblies Training and Certification Program
- Have knowledge of testing electronic components and circuits to locate defects using normal diagnostic equipment such as oscilloscopes, DMM
- Current duties and responsibilities of the Order Expeditor
- Make certain that all customer technical and service issues have been resolved to the customers’ satisfaction
- Long-range planning for laboratory and departmental equipment maintenance and replacement
- Assist in writing the text of scientific publications and grants
- Oversee layout, allocation, and tracking of space among multiple labs
- Administer health and safety programs and ensure safety compliance
- Leads streamlining and improvement efforts in sample tracking and management in Watson LIMS
- Media/entertainment experience a plus
- Responsible for short and long term goals of QC laboratory efforts in support of commercial release of cosmetic/OTC products and continuous improvement projects
- Experience with automated laboratory equipment a plus
- Good interpersonal and collaborative skills, with excellent verbal and written communication
- Highly motivated with the desire to continuously learn and develop
- Review/approve IQs, OQs, PQs, and validation protocols as necessary
Lab Manager Job Description
- Degree in Chemistry or Biology with educational learning around lab or lab experience
- Translate strategy into validation protocol and experimental plan and communicate with supervisor and lab technicians in charge of the analytical method
- Follow-up of experiments related to validations with laboratories and collect data
- Redaction of validation report and submission to validation manager and QA
- Guarantees the application and maintenance of the c#GMP (SOP, documentation, training,..)
- Assure the efficiency of quality control (quality, delay, results interpretation, KPI)
- Identify and communicate to direct management any issues that impact reagent delivery (business, quality)
- Participate in investigation linked to reagent
- Provide administrative support for PI, WormLab and WormBase
- Coordinate domestic and international travel arrangements for lab members
- Minimum 3 years experience in systems administration experience with both Macintosh and Windows platforms
- Team management experience, which could include on/offsite resources and/or consultants
- Understanding of digital development for web, mobile and streaming platforms a plus
- Research and recommend upgrades/new software and systems to increase compliance and efficiency in Analytical Services
- Ensure that new systems and software are properly integrated with existing processes and capabilities
- Work with the IT Project Manager to provide budgeting information for new systems, service agreements, software upgrades, etc
Lab Manager Job Description
- Implement systems to maximize efficiencies in the chemistry testing lab
- Ensure consumable lab supplies are adequately stocked and organized to support engineering efforts
- Maintain accurate inventory of field supplies and inventory (FSR) to include all GFE/GFM
- Compile and maintain a list of materials and equipment to support technical staff (wish list)
- Communicate changes in inventory to Engineering/Management (GFE/GFM/Tools/etc)
- Complete inspection of all new GFE/GFM upon receipt
- Through planning and coordination ensure orderly appearance of lab at all times
- Responsible for timely execution of all personnel-related activities such as Time Sheet completion, 3rd Party/Self Performance Evaluations
- Participating in lab planning for new experiments and potentially new lab facilities over time
- Managing day-to-day team activities within supported labs
- Minimum of 7-10 years experience in cosmetic product development with at least five years of management experience (including technician reports, one Sr
- Stock keeping / inventory tracking for both equipment and consumable items
- In depth knowledge of FDA cGMP requirements, EPA GLP requirements, and ISO 9001 2000 requirements is required
- At least 7 years experience in quality, manufacturing or research environment
- Excellent communication and team attitude
- Must possess personal integrity and practice discretion