Lab Automation Lead (Manager)

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Laboratory Setting, Office, Some degree of PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) required (safety glasses, gowning, gloves, lab coat, ear plugs etc.), Will work with hazardous/toxic materials

Job Description

Lab Automation Lead (Manager) – GoCo Health Innovation City, Gothenburg, Sweden

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.

Location/Division Specific Information

Our PPD® Laboratory Services team has a direct impact on improving patient health through the expertise of scientists, industry thought-leaders and therapeutic guides. As the world leader in serving science, our laboratory professionals bring their commitment to accuracy and quality to deliver groundbreaking innovations.

This position will be based at our new bioanalytical laboratory in GoCo Health Innovation City which is due to open later this year. This lab will serve pharmaceutical and biotech customers with advanced laboratory services and leading-edge instrumentation across all phases of pharmaceutical development to help deliver life-changing medicines to patients worldwide and will provide comprehensive and full-service solutions, encompassing both small and large molecules, biomarkers and novel modalities.

Discover Impactful Work:

The Automation Lead provides line-level management for a small team which inclides coordination of resources and work schedules for laboratory automation activities. The successful candidate will oversee daily operations and assist in preparation and implementation of company policies, quality systems and training programs. The Automation Lead ensures that laboratory staff continues to be developed to keep pace with department goals and growth. You will also be responsible for the regulatory and scientific conduct of development, qualification, and/or validation work in support of automated instrumentatio and routinely acts as the technical project leader for multiple projects, interacting with clients as needed.

A day in the Life:

• Independently performs program optimization and validation of complex scripts. Understands and conforms to methods, and protocols applicable to assigned tasks. Designs and executes experiments independently.
• Reviews and critiques automated instrumentation programs and associated documentation and other related technical documents.
• Communicates data, technical issues, information regarding project definitions and expectations, and discussions of project status to stakeholders as needed
• Provides technical guidance
• Leads analytical (procedural and instrumentation-related) troubleshooting sessions
• Assists in preparation and implementation of SOPs and quality systems.
• Reviews, interprets, and analyzes data for technical, quality and compliance to protocols, methods, SOPs, client criteria and Good Manufacturing Practices
• (GMP) or Good Laboratory Practices (GLP).
• Performs self and peer review of the data for accuracy and compliance with reporting requirements prior to submission to QA and issuance to customers.
• Evaluates available technical options to obtain desired quality of analytical results, economics, ease of introduction into a production environment, and robustness in analytical application.
• Communicates status of project efforts to manager.
• Provides leadership and mentoring to team members in order to improve their technical expertise and scientific knowledge.
• Implements novel approaches to method development and applications as appropriate.
• Provides training/orientation to production staff as needed to successfully implement methods. Assists in startup and troubleshooting methods through the first analytical application and as needed in future projects.
• Complex remedial maintenance (e.g., complex hardware replacements)
• Performs programming and/or process mapping for fully automated workflows
• Implements data integrity processes; supports instrument software validation efforts
• Provides team coaching/mentorship
• Organizes, schedules and supervises laboratory automation resources for group's project activities

Keys to Success:

Education and Experience

BSc/MSc in a Scientific/Engineering discipline. Other fields of study may also be considered for example Computer Science, Programming.

4+ years experience in laboratory automation with 1+ year of leadership experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job

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.

Skills/Abilities:

• Direct experience with automation instrumentation required; vendor service certification preferred
• Experience with programming (Hamilton Venus, TECAN EVOware or Fluent Control, Thermo Momentum, VB, Python, etc.) required; vendor programming certification (or equivalent) preferred
• Ability to operate and troubleshoot a wide variety of analytical instrumentation and data acquisition systems
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities
• Proven project management skills
• Proven ability to work in a collaborative work environment with a team
• Proven understanding of GxP requirements, SOPs, ICH guidelines, USP requirements and FDA
• Proven troubelshooting and critical thinking skills; ability to independently perform root cause analysis for method investigations
• Proficient in complex automated platform software use and programming and/or hardware troublshooting/replacement
• Proven ability to train or provide mentorship to other automation staff for programming, system optimization, validation/qualification requirements, etc.
• Knowledge of data generation and statistical programs
• Knowledge of general chemistry, separation science, immunochemistry, molecular genomics, biomarker, and/or vaccine science related concepts and/or technologies (as applicable)
• Proven technical writing skills
• Proven effective communication (written and oral) and organizational skills
• Proven leadership skills
• Demonstrated ability to be project-solution driven
• Ability to write and recommend changes to SOPs

Benefits

We offer competitive remuneration, annual incentive plan bonus, and a range of employee benefits. Thermo Fisher Scientific offers employment with an innovative, forward-thinking organization, and outstanding career and development prospects. We offer an exciting company culture that stands for integrity, intensity, involvement, and innovation!

Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Watch as our colleagues explain 5 reasons to work with us. As one team of 100,000+ colleagues, we share a common set of values - Integrity, Intensity, Innovation and Involvement - working together to accelerate research, solve complex scientific challenges, drive technological innovation and support patients in need. #StartYourStory with PPD, part of Thermo Fisher Scientific, where diverse experiences, backgrounds and perspectives are valued.

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