Lab Operation Manager

What if you could join a rapidly growing company and play a critical role in bringing new medicines to patients through looking at and treating disease in a revolutionary way?

About Vesalius

Vesalius Therapeutics is pioneering a revolutionary platform to generate breakthrough treatments for common diseases.  Vesalius’ platform uses large-scale human genetics, genomics, stem cell studies and artificial intelligence to uncover causal biology and identify optimal intervention points for new therapies. Efficiently identifying these intervention points and the patients most likely to benefit from these novel therapies will enable smaller, shorter clinical trials with a higher probability of success. Vesalius was founded in 2019 by Flagship Pioneering. For more information visit vesaliustx.com, or follow us on X and LinkedIn.

About the Position

Vesalius Therapeutics, a Flagship Pioneering company, is seeking a capable and highly motivated Lab Operations Manager to join our growing team.  As a Lab Operations manager, you will be an essential part of an interdisciplinary team of highly creative and talented individuals responsible for maintaining and implementing lab practices that support various activities within the research laboratories.

Responsibilities

• Manage and optimize lab operation processes to maintain an efficient and safe lab space for our scientists.
• The position is responsible for day-to-day lab operations including oversight of equipment, consumables, safety, lab moves, and facilities.
• Work with Facilities, IT, Finance, Procurement and external service providers.
• Inventory management of laboratory consumables and reagents.
• Asset management to track equipment inventory and services including calibration, maintenance, service contract renewal, software/hardware upgrades, decommissioning, and moves for existing equipment.
• Manage laboratory waste removal and disposal.
• Oversee shipping logistics for lab-related items.
• Responsible for managing requests for utility upgrades, modifications, and installations.
• Oversee laboratory safety, compliance with regulatory agencies, lab safety training and coordination of internal biosafety committee including generation of protocols for committee approval
• Identify opportunities, lead initiatives to optimize processes and improve lab operations within R&D.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in chemistry, biology, pharmacy, engineering or related pharmaceutical science and 5+ years relevant industry experience
• Strong organizational and communication skills, with attention to detail. Ability to express oneself clearly and concisely.
• Document issues and/or concerns concisely with colleagues; capable of timely and effectively communication to upper and direct management.
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with others.
• Independent and self-motivated individual. Works well in a cross functional team environment. Multi-tasking is a key component.
• Able to troubleshoot critical issues or problems and resolve routine issues using appropriate information.
• Able to initiate, manage, plan, execute, control, and close concurrent projects within given timelines.
• Demonstrated ability to work in a dynamic environment with a sense of urgency and creativity and focus on deliverables.
• Team player with a strong work ethic, able to work both independently and collaboratively 
• Continuously learns and adapts quickly to new information

About Flagship

Flagship Pioneering is a bioplatform innovation company that invents and builds platform companies, each with the potential for multiple products that transform human health or sustainability. Since its launch in 2000, Flagship has originated and fostered more than 100 scientific ventures, resulting in more than $90 billion in aggregate value. Many of the companies Flagship has founded have addressed humanity’s most urgent challenges: vaccinating billions of people against COVID-19, curing intractable diseases, improving human health, preempting illness, and feeding the world by improving the resiliency and sustainability of agriculture.  Flagship has been recognized twice on FORTUNE’s “Change the World” list, an annual ranking of companies that have made a positive social and environmental impact through activities that are part of their core business strategies, and has been twice named to Fast Company’s annual list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies. Learn more about Flagship at www.flagshippioneering.com.

Vesalius is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. 

At Vesalius, we recognize there is no perfect candidate. If you have some of the experience listed above but not all, please apply anyway. Experience comes in many forms, skills are transferable, and passion goes a long way. We are dedicated to building diverse and inclusive teams and look forward to learning more about your unique background.

Recruitment & Staffing Agencies: Vesalius Therapeutics does not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than candidates. The submission of unsolicited resumes by recruitment or staffing agencies to Vesalius or its employees is strictly prohibited unless contacted directly by the Vesalius internal Talent Acquisition team. Any resume submitted by an agency in the absence of a signed agreement will automatically become the property of Vesalius, and Vesalius will not owe any referral or other fees with respect thereto.