Jobs at Avid Bioservices

Leads automation and controls engineering for FDA/cGMP biopharmaceutical manufacturing and utilities. Responsibilities include maintaining, troubleshooting, and upgrading control systems; performing root cause analyses; analyzing process data; developing electrical and P&ID drawings; supporting validation and manufacturing projects; improving processes; and participating in audits. The role collaborates with operations, quality, vendors, and suppliers and requires onsite work, on-call support, and occasional extended hours.

Leads direct and indirect procurement, including sourcing strategies, purchase orders, supplier negotiations, contract development, vendor performance, second sourcing, and corporate spend optimization. Partners with internal stakeholders to ensure supply continuity, reduce costs, resolve invoice issues, and improve procurement KPIs. Manages raw materials, engineering components, software, facilities, and professional services categories while building resilient supplier networks.

Coordinates the full talent acquisition process, including interview scheduling, candidate travel, communications, ATS data entry, recruiting reports, onboarding, pre-employment activities, and recruiting events. Supports process improvements, HRIS/ATS assessments, documentation, and internship programs while maintaining confidentiality and resolving scheduling challenges. The role also develops sourcing and recruiting skills for complex roles and requires full-time onsite work in Tustin, California.

Leads the design, administration, support, testing, validation, documentation, and lifecycle management of regulated operational technology, manufacturing equipment, laboratory instruments, and enterprise systems. Troubleshoots complex issues, coordinates vendors, supports change controls and investigations, maintains security and access controls, trains technical staff, and contributes to technology implementation and continuity planning in a GMP-regulated biopharmaceutical environment.

Leads and scales the Talent Acquisition function, including team development, workforce planning, recruitment operations, employer branding, vendor and RPO management, university recruiting, TA technology, analytics, and executive talent advising. Oversees hiring across manufacturing, biotech, quality, engineering, and leadership roles while improving processes, candidate experience, sourcing strategies, and hiring outcomes.

The Senior Talent Acquisition Partner develops targeted recruiting strategies for specialized life sciences and biopharmaceutical roles. Responsibilities include sourcing, screening, interviewing, candidate positioning, stakeholder advising, full-cycle recruiting, candidate communication, applicant tracking system management, compliance, reporting, and closing talent. The role requires strong relationships with hiring leaders, market intelligence, agency-style recruiting urgency, and experience across technical functions such as process development, quality, operations, and engineering.

Owns the commercial technology ecosystem, primarily Salesforce, by architecting configurations, developing Apex and Lightning solutions, managing integrations, and supporting complex CDMO sales processes. Partners with commercial, finance, marketing, program management, and IT teams to gather requirements, improve lead and pipeline workflows, build executive dashboards, perform revenue and margin analyses, and maintain data governance, security, compliance, and system validation standards.

Supervise inventory control and supply chain warehouse operations in a GMP-regulated biopharmaceutical environment. Establish inventory procedures, monitor reorder points, coordinate material movement, maintain tracking documentation and SOPs, conduct physical counts, investigate discrepancies, and support receiving, shipping, packaging, labeling, and finished-product inventory activities. Provide direction and training to supply chain staff while ensuring accurate documentation, compliance, and efficient floor operations.

Serve as a strategic HR advisor to leadership, aligning people strategies with business objectives. Lead workforce planning, talent and succession initiatives, employee relations investigations, organizational change, performance and compensation processes, manager coaching, and employee engagement efforts. Ensure labor-law compliance, analyze HR metrics, support organizational scale-up, and foster an inclusive, high-performing culture.

Supports end-to-end RFP, RFI, proposal, quotation, and change order processes for biopharmaceutical CDMO opportunities. Coordinates cross-functional contributions, prepares scopes, timelines, pricing inputs, and supporting materials, manages deadlines and approvals, maintains proposal templates and response content, tracks activity in Salesforce, and supports client meetings, reporting, and process improvements.

Develop and execute AVID’s internal communications strategy, partnering with executives and leaders on messaging, town halls, organizational updates, and change communications. Oversee internal channels, create announcements and leadership content, reinforce culture, support employee engagement, and measure communication effectiveness. The role requires translating complex business topics into clear messages, managing stakeholders, and improving communication approaches through employee feedback and data-driven insights.

Leads the design, administration, testing, documentation, troubleshooting, security, and lifecycle management of OT systems, manufacturing equipment, laboratory instrumentation, and regulated applications in a GMP environment. Supports validation, change management, deviations, corrective actions, recovery planning, audits, vendor coordination, project implementation, staff training, and mentoring. Provides technical guidance across Operations, IT, Engineering, Quality, vendors, and project teams while maintaining reliable and compliant manufacturing and quality-control technology.

Supervise inventory control and supply chain personnel in a GMP-regulated biopharmaceutical warehouse. Establish inventory procedures, monitor reorder points, coordinate material movement, maintain SOPs and controlled documentation, conduct physical counts, investigate discrepancies, support receiving, shipping, packaging, labeling, and finished-product inventory, and train and direct staff.