Title:                   Manager/Sr. Manager, Lab Operations and Environmental Health & Safety

Location:           Cambridge, MA

Reports to:        Head of Facilities

The Role:

The Laboratory Operations & EHS Manager will oversee the daily operations of the laboratory, providing essential support to our research team, partnering with them to optimize processes, increase efficiency and anticipate and solve problems. Additionally, this individual will have oversight of Vedanta’s EHS programs including implementation of policies and procedures that reduce the risk of EHS adverse events and ensure compliance with all relevant regulations. The successful candidate is highly organized, comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, and an integral part of a highly collaborative and interdisciplinary team. Excellent communication, record-keeping, and teamwork will be critical.

Here’s What You’ll Do:

• Collaborate with research team to identify and address any operational workflow bottlenecks, inefficiencies, opportunities for process improvement, and logistical or administrative issues in the lab.
• Oversee lab safety and regulatory compliance, including tracking of biologics, chemicals, and hazardous materials, and enforcing PPE policy and lab safety rules.
• Establish and maintain lab processes and procedures including documentation, equipment calibrations, and annual laboratory cleanouts.
• Coordinate annual laboratory permits and license renewals.
• Anticipate, troubleshoot, and resolve problems associated with work within the laboratory setting, including occasional off-hours responses to laboratory emergencies.
• Lead all aspects of EHS corrective and preventative action program to ensure that identified improvements are followed to completion.
• Develop training programs to ensure employee understanding of EHS risks, the measures vital to protect from adverse events, and the safety regulations pertinent to the pharmaceutical/biotechnology industry.
• Conduct accident and incident investigations with the purpose of identifying root cause and corrective actions.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in science or engineering fields, or related and equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience in laboratory management, with 2+ of those years serving as laboratory manager; preferably in a biotech or pharmaceutical setting.
• 2+ years of Environmental Health & Safety program experience.
• Familiarity with GLP, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), regulatory requirements, and vendor management/negotiation.
• Familiarity with the regulations and interactions with various state and federal agencies including EPA, OSHA, DOT, MA DEP, MA DPH, MA DOL and others.
• Knowledge of laboratory equipment installation and onboarding.
• Excellent problem solving and decision-making skills.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and laboratory information management systems (LIMS).
• Must be able to lift up to 25 pounds and stand for multiple hours at a time. Job requires the ability to bend and twist to maintain equipment and reach supplies.

Why join Vedanta Biosciences

Vedanta is pioneering the development of a new class of therapies that act by modulating the human microbiome. Modulation of the human microbiota holds enormous promise to treat a broad range of immune and infectious diseases in ways that are completely different to existing drug classes. Breakthrough discoveries of our scientific team in the field of mucosal immunology have led to the first rationally designed drug candidates in the microbiome field. Vedanta was founded by PureTech Health and a team of world-renowned experts in immunology and microbiology. 

We invite you to explore our site to learn more about our company and how our discovery platform enables identification of bacterial consortia with drug-like properties and their manufacture to GMP standards.

Our Vision:

We are harnessing the human microbiome to enable a new drug modality based on rationally defined bacterial consortia

Vedanta is committed to equal employment opportunity and non-discrimination for all employees and qualified applicants without regard to a person’s race, color, gender, age, religion, national origin, ancestry, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation or any characteristic protected under applicable law. Vedanta will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities, in accordance with applicable law.

Vedanta Biosciences requires all employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and newly hired employees must be fully vaccinated prior to their employment start date. Vedanta Biosciences will consider accommodations for individuals who are unable to be vaccinated against COVID-19 due to a qualifying medical condition or disability or a sincerely held religious objection.