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Job TitleLab ManagerLocation(s)GSK (Collegeville) - Customer Site PA
Job Description
Provides strategic leadership and direction for the delivery of enterprise-level support and service activities for company products and services. Develops support delivery strategy and related processes, escalation procedures and training. Liaises between customers and technical support, product development, sales and field service to identify opportunities for support delivery improvements, cost reduction and value-add to the customer/client. Selects, develops and evaluates personnel to ensure the efficient operation of the function.
Job Responsibilities:
- Ensure appropriate management of the service teams within area of responsibility, delivering the services identified in the statement of works, and ensuring that all service requests are allocated, resolved, and closed out accordingly.
- Monitor team’s performance to ensure that the services are delivered to the required high standard.
- Engage in local customer interaction and foster long term collaborative relationships.
- Monitor all groups within area of responsibility to ensure that they operate safely and that all appropriate risk assessments, documentation, procedures, and audits are in place.
- Carry out inductions and training as per PerkinElmer requirements.
- Conduct regular meetings with managed staff through routine meetings and annual reviews (where necessary).
- Maintain oversight and accountability for actions that arise from routine meetings to ensure that they are completed.
- Recruitment of suitable and qualified personnel into the team as per the company’s policies and procedures.
- Provide cover for your manager or peers where necessary.
- To attend and actively participate in comm cells, meetings, and training courses as required.
- Support and contribute to transformational activity appropriate to team and subject matter expertise.
- Ensure timely and accurate reporting of data including any performance metrics.
- Ensure any communications are timely and accurate.
- Seek development opportunities and advise reporting staff of areas to enhance their career/service delivery.
- Build and maintain business continuity plans and ensure skills matrices show development of staff.
- Collaborate with internal and external PerkinElmer staff and customer groups for further business opportunities.
- Maintain training and compliance in areas of health and safety, security, environmental and operational aspects of daily activities in the working environment
Nothing in this job description restricts management’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities of this job at any time.
Critical Skills
- Demonstrable experience of providing a range of scientific & technical services.
- Excellent teamwork, interpersonal & communication skills.
- Highly committed, organized, self-motivated & able to manage a complex workload.
- Flexibility within the contracted hours.
- Strong IT skills.
- Comfortable chairing and facilitating meetings.
- Strong team player and a ‘can do’ attitude.
- Intuitive and proactive nature.
- Working to and achieving set targets.
- Experience of working to GxP regulations would be advantageous.
- Awareness of Safety and Quality protocols and guidelines.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in relevant field and 1+ years' experience in a customer facing role within a scientific environment with 1+ year(s) in a mentoring, coaching, or lead role OR
- Associate degree in relevant field and 3+ years' experience in a customer facing role within a scientific environment with 1+ year(s) in a mentoring, coaching, or lead role OR
- High School Diploma with 5+ years of experience in a customer facing role within a scientific environment with 1+ year(s) in a mentoring, coaching, or lead role.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience within a laboratory environment.
Working Environment:
- Must be able to work in a laboratory, controlled environments requiring personal protective equipment (e.g., lab coat, safety glasses, etc.) in laboratory.
- Job pace may be fast and job completion demands may be high.
- Must be able to remain in a stationary position more than 25% of the time.
- The person needs to occasionally move between labs, corridors, adjoining rooms, and buildings onsite. Frequently operate on instruments, objects, tools, or controls, which will require regularly bending, squatting, stretching, and reaching to perform in a service function.
- Occasionally move or lift to 25 pounds (potential for occasional lifting of up to 50 pounds).
- Specific vision abilities required by this position include without limitation, the ability to observe details at close range distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus to perform the essential service functions of this position.
- Occasionally operates a computer and other office machinery, such as a calculator, copy machine, and computer printer.
- Employee may be required to handle hazardous waste according to local, state, and federal regulations. Duties may include identifying, handling, generating, accumulating, storing, and labeling hazardous waste.
- Potential risk to lab-based hazards including but not limited to extreme temperature, biological materials, and hazardous chemicals.
- May be required to complete Medical Clearance, Respiratory Protection Training, and Fit Testing to wear a respirator as protection against hazards present in the laboratory environment.
The annual compensation range for this full-time position is $70,000 to $80,000. The final base pay offered to the successful candidate will be determined by factors including internal equity, work location, as well as individual qualifications, such as job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
PerkinElmer is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability status, age, or veteran status or any other characteristics protected by applicable law. PerkinElmer is committed to a culturally diverse workforce.Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field and 1 or more years of customer-facing experience in a scientific environment, including 1 or more years in a mentoring, coaching, or lead role
- Associate degree in a relevant field and 3 or more years of customer-facing experience in a scientific environment, including 1 or more years in a mentoring, coaching, or lead role
- High school diploma and 5 or more years of customer-facing experience in a scientific environment, including 1 or more years in a mentoring, coaching, or lead role
- Demonstrable experience providing scientific and technical services
- Excellent teamwork, interpersonal, and communication skills
- Ability to manage a complex workload while remaining organized, self-motivated, flexible, and proactive
- Strong IT skills
- Ability to chair and facilitate meetings
- Experience working to targets and achieving performance goals
- Awareness of safety and quality protocols and guidelines
- Experience working to GxP regulations
- Experience within a laboratory environment
- Ability to work in laboratory environments using required personal protective equipment
- Ability to handle hazardous waste and work around biological materials, hazardous chemicals, and other laboratory hazards
- Ability to complete medical clearance, respiratory protection training, and respirator fit testing if required
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What We Do
For 85 years, PerkinElmer has pushed the boundaries of science from food to health to the environment. We’ve always pursued science with a clear purpose – to help our customers achieve theirs. Our expert team brings technology and intangibles, like creativity, empathy, diligence, and a spirit of collaboration, in equal measure, to fulfill our customers’ desire to work better, innovate better, and create better. PerkinElmer is a leading, global provider of technology and service solutions that help customers measure, quantify, detect, and report in ways that help ensure the quality, safety, and satisfaction of their products. Learn more at www.newperkinelmer.com.
