Associate Lab Support Coordinator
Pennington Reserve at Upper Providence, Pennsylvania
Responsibilities
Location Upper Providence, PennsylvaniaUS Job ID JR-035813Position Title: Lab Support Coordinator
Location: Upper Providence, PA
Job Responsibilities
- Point of contact for customer lab staff, facilitating and coordinating laboratory needs and activities.
- Work closely with other teams to seamlessly deliver lab support services.
- Areas of support may include infrastructure, engineering, IT, and working with other service providers.
- Coordinate the working lab environment daily and oversee all stock items in and near the labs including but not limited to glassware, lab coats, PPE, consumables.
- Support coordination of waste removal from labs, ensuring use of waste streams with appropriate third-party vendors.
- Reporting of service requirements and ensuring these are dealt with and/or closed out in a timely manner.
- May be the point of contact for equipment maintenance in liaison with PerkinElmer Asset Management team (or other third-party vendor) and customer lab staff, facilitating scheduling and hosting of engineering visits for maintenance and/or repairs.
- Meet regularly with key stakeholders (lab staff, service providers, management) to identify, review and resolve issues in a timely manner and/or escalate as necessary.
- May work with Customer and PerkinElmer staff to ensure quality and compliance within the laboratory.
- May work in collaboration with customer line safety reps to ensure a high level of safety is maintained in the lab.
- May work with PerkinElmer and customer staff to help maintain lab documentation and coordinate archiving.
- Provide timely communication to lab users on impact of any site service work.
Basic Qualifications:
- High School Diploma
- 0-2 years of experience in a customer facing role
Preferred Qualifications:
- Associates degree or higher preferred and relevant industry experience.
- 1-2 years of work experience in a laboratory environment.
- 1-2 years of experience working in a highly regulated environment and/or GxP related experience
- Experience with Microsoft Office (e.g. Outlook, Word, Excel)
- Ability to work both independently and in a team environment
- Effective written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to prioritize multiple requests with different levels of urgency
- Strong organizational skills with attention to detail and accurate data entry
Other Requirements:
- The person in this position needs to frequently move in and out of labs
- Frequently operate on instruments, objects, tools or controls, which will quire regularly bending, squatting, stretching and reaching in order to perform in a service function.
- Regularly move or lift up to 25 pounds and occasionally move or lift up to 100 pounds
- Specific vision abilities required by this position include without limitation, the ability to observe details at close range (within a few feet of the instrument), distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus in order to perform the essential service functions of this position.
- Occasionally operates a computer and other office equipment.
Working Environment:
- Must be able to work in a laboratory, controlled environments requiring personal protective equipment
- Job pace may be fast and job completion demands may be high.
- Employee maybe required to manage hazardous wastes in compliance with company procedures & State/Federal/Local hazardous waste regulations. Duties may include, identifying, handling, generating, accumulating, storing, labeling.
- Ensure safety, security, and the environment in all aspect of the daily activities, and any potential safety hazards are addressed and corrected immediately.
- Understand ergonomic relationship between people, equipment and working environment.
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.