Lab Manager

5G-Starlink Pte.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Life Insurance

Paid Time Off

Job summary

Frontiers is seeking a Lab Manager to lead and optimize our biotech lab operations in Singapore. You will supervise lab users, drive standardization, manage lab safety, and coordinate with biology and bioengineering teams to enable platform growth.

Ideal candidates have a strong track record in biotech lab facilities, OSHA/EH&S compliance, and ERP-enabled budgeting. The role involves cross-functional collaboration, long-term planning, and ensuring uninterrupted laboratory services.

Qualifications

• Associate or bachelor’s degree, or equivalent.
• Proven track record managing laboratory facilities in Biotechnology or Pharmaceutical industries.
• 5+ years experience in supply chain and lab management.
• Experience implementing and managing OSHA/EH&S and other environmental compliance programs.
• Experience with design, operation and maintenance of facilities and equipment in biotech.
• Experience receiving lab equipment, chemicals, biologics, and temperature-sensitive samples.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic direction, technical supervision, and support to lab users.
• Drive improvements in service, efficiency, and cost through standardization.
• Track performance across service, efficiency, and cost reductions.
• Establish business continuity plan including extended-hours coverage.
• Manage lab safety inspections and enforce safety policies.
• Oversee facilities vendor management and budgeting with finance.

Skills

Lab facilities management

Supply chain management

Equipment maintenance

Budget management

Microsoft Office

Education

Associate or bachelor’s degree

Tools

ERP system

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

We are seeking a highly creative, passionate, and motivated individual to join us in our quest to advance science and defeat disease. We are looking for a Lab Manager to join our team and advance our platform. This person will be instrumental in Frontiers transition to a clinical stage Biotechnology Company. The candidate should have a passion for working collaboratively with biologists and bioengineers to enable building the necessary tools for meeting Frontiers goals. Additionally, the candidate will be strategically minded, service-oriented, and familiar with biotechnology lab and facility operations.

Requirements

What will you be doing?

• Provide strategic direction, technical supervision, and support to lab users
• Drive improvements in service, efficiency, and cost reduction through standardization of common practices across the company
• Track performance across the 3 areas (service, efficiency, cost reduction)
• Create a venue to share ideas between lab operations/facilities teams and clients (lab personnel)
• Establish and own a business continuity plan including extended-hours coverage and response plan
• Establish processes and maintain an infrastructure to enable laboratory operations across Research and Process Science including:
• Capital plan/expenditures (from forecasting needs to installation),
• Lab equipment and instrumentation (i.e., contracts, maintenance, repair, calibration, upgrade and retiring),
• Lab safety (i.e., chemical storage, waste, build system for MSDS information, Contract EH&S oversight, and OSHA oversight)
• Daily lab monitoring (e.g., refrigerators/freezers and LN2/CO2 levels)
• Manage lab safety inspections
• Enforce lab safety policies
• Responsible for performing quality control activities with minimal

supervision of daily tasks in support of client procedures

• Ensure work is compliant with all applicable SOPs and Good

Documentation Practices (GDP) as well as cGMP and cGTP
requirements

• Identify problems that may adversely affect test performance or

reporting of test results, correct the problems encountered

• Document all corrective actions taken when test systems deviate

from the laboratories established performance specifications

• Supervise facilities vendor management and performance against budget in collaboration with finance function

What are we looking for?

• Associate or bachelors degree, or equivalent
• Proven track record managing laboratory facilities in Biotechnology or Pharmaceutical industries
• 5+ years experience in supply chain and lab management
• Experience implementing and managing Companywide OSHA, EH&S and other environmental compliance programs
• In-depth experience with the set-up/design, operation and maintenance of facilities and equipment in a Biotechnology industry setting
• Experience overseeing the receiving of lab equipment, chemicals, biologics, and temperature sensitive samples and reagents
• Equipment management experience with maintenance, calibration, and validation of analytical and process equipment
• Exceptional organizational skills
• Excellent prioritization and organization skills
• Proficiency in Microsoft office, particularly developing PowerPoint slides and excel budgets to articulate project spending and progress
• Experience with setting up an ERP system
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced, interdisciplinary research team
• Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
• Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)