Lab Manager

<div class="content-intro"><h3><strong>Join our Mission to Protect Humankind!</strong></h3> <div>Vaxcyte is a clinical-stage vaccine innovation company engineering high-fidelity vaccines to protect humankind from the consequences of bacterial diseases, which have serious and costly health consequences when left unchecked. Working to eradicate or treat bacterial infections such as invasive pneumococcal disease, Group A Strep, and Shigella is just the beginning. Our path to success is clear and well-defined, and Vaxcyte is set up to go the distance. </div> <div> </div> <div><strong>WHAT</strong> we do is every bit as important as <strong>HOW</strong> we do it! Our work together is guided by four enduring core values:</div> <div> </div> <div>*RETHINK CONVENTION: We bring creative and intellectual diversity to every facet of the work we do in order to innovate and re-innovate the way vaccines are delivered.</div> <div> </div> <div>*AIM HIGH: We embody our collectively audacious goal to courageously make the most complex biologics ever attempted to protect humankind.</div> <div> </div> <div>*LEAD WITH HEART: Everyone leads at Vaxcyte with a kindness-first, inclusive approach to collaboration and vigorous debate that advances our business objectives.</div> <div> </div> <div>*MODEL EXCELLENCE: The magnitude of our challenge requires our shared commitment to demonstrating integrity, accountability, equality and clarity across communications and decision making.</div></div><h3><strong>Summary:</strong></h3> <p>Vaxcyte is seeking a highly energetic, talented, pro-active, and self-motivated individual to join our growing Facilities and Lab Operations Team. The Lab Manager is a very hands-on role and is responsible for the overall daily operations in Vaxcyte laboratories including vendor management, lab supply inventory, equipment maintenance requirements, and new equipment orders. The Lab Manager is a critical point of contact for lab personnel, fielding service requests, triaging and assigning tasks, providing training, and helping to maintain a culture of safety and compliance. They will support general lab space equipment layouts. They will work with appropriate departments on the development of necessary SOPs for training, equipment maintenance, calibration, and repair. They will work closely with procurement and the lab teams on CAPEX / OPEX budgeting and ordering of lab assets and service contracts. They will support installations in lab spaces, and oversight of any qualification / validation verification activities. They will provide feedback on lab efficiency, operations, and policies as well as recommendations on any necessary changes or improvement.</p> <p>This role will be instrumental in ensuring our facilities and lab operations department and laboratories are ready for growth with Vaxcyte’s current and projected product pipelines. This department enables the labs to run efficiently and the scientists to focus on delivering their respective pipelines. This role will own this department’s transformational journey including centralizing lab operations, standardizing common services, consolidating supplies, implementation of GMP and contracts and application of lean lab techniques (e.g., 5S, Kanban, visual management). A successful candidate is well organized, flexible, creative and enjoys the challenges of managing a diverse and energetic office space. This is a full-time, on-site role that reports to the Director of Lab Operations</p> <p><em>Note: rotational, shared 24x7 support is required of this role.</em></p> <h3>Essential Functions:</h3> <ul> <li>Establish and maintain an infrastructure to enable a structured laboratory operation. framework across Vaxcyte’s labs including capital plan/expenditures (from forecast to installation), lab equipment and instrumentation (i.e., contracts, maintenance, repair, calibration, upgrade and retiring), and lab consumables (i.e., contracts, procurement, order management, inventory manage ... (truncated, view full listing at source)