Bio Design Center Laboratory Coordinator

Socket.dev; Plainville (MA); On-site; USD 59,000 - 79,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401(k)

Annual bonus

PTO and benefits

Job summary

Thermo Fisher Scientific in Plainville, MA seeks a Laboratory Inventory Coordinator for the BioProcess Design Center. The role focuses on setting up and operationalizing the new facility, coordinating lab activities, and ensuring readiness for customer demonstrations and studies.

The candidate will manage equipment, procurement, quotes, and budgets while collaborating with technical and business teams to support timely project execution.

Qualifications

• Associates degree or higher with lab inventory management experience.
• 1+ year experience in Laboratory Inventory Management.
• Strong project management and coordination skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.

Responsibilities

• Plan and coordinate customer visits, bookings, travel, and facility access.
• Liaise between customers and technical teams and schedule meetings.
• Generate quotes for consumables and trials, coordinating rapid orders.
• Procure materials quickly to support time-sensitive studies.
• Develop dual-track cost estimates for internal and external pricing.
• Maintain lab equipment, preventive maintenance, calibration status.
• Maintain lab inventory of chemicals and coordinate stocking needs.
• Work with Finance to monitor expenses and assist budget planning.
• Assist in preparation of buffers according to buffer sheets with quality and consistency.

Skills

Project management

Communication

MS Excel

MS PowerPoint

MS Word

Vendor management

Education

Associates degree

Bachelor's degree preferred

Tools

MS Excel

PowerPoint

Word

Project management tools

Job description

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Adherence to all Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) Safety Standards

Job Description

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

Location

On-site Plainville, MA. Relocation assistance is NOT provided.

• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.
• Must be able to pass a comprehensive background check, which includes a drug screening.

How Will You Make an Impact?

Our new Bioprocess Design Center is an innovative facility dedicated to demonstrating and training customers on our innovative single-use technologies, Upstream and Downstream solutions, cell culture media, cell lines, resin and analytical offerings. The respective personnel will help the BioProcess Design Center (BDC) as the Laboratory Coordinator. They will play a significant role in establishing and operationalizing the new Bio Design Center (BDC) facility. This position will be instrumental in the initial setup, commissioning, and organization of the laboratory infrastructure, ensuring the center is fully operational and optimized for commercial customer activities.

What Will You Do?

• Plan and implement comprehensive customer visits, including scheduling, conference room bookings, catering coordination, travel arrangements, and facility access management through security and badge systems (10%)
• Serve as primary liaison between customers and technical teams, coordinating meetings with appropriate staff and business managers.
• Generate comprehensive quotes for consumables, materials and engineering trial services required for customer design-in studies, coordinating rapid orders across different business units.
• Handle rapid procurement and expedited ordering process to support time-sensitive customer trails and engineering studies, ensuring materials availability aligns with project timelines.
• Develop dual track quoting system for providing detailed cost estimates for both Plainville team budget planning and external customer pricing expectations for trial services.
• Maintain all lab equipment, work with facilities, engineering, and outside vendors on preventive maintenance schedule, commission new equipment, vendor appointment as and when required and maintain calibration status of all equipment (10%)
• Maintain accurate lab inventory of chemicals and, coordinate stocking needs with local procurement group on site (20%)
• Work with Finance to supervise expenses against budget and ensure invoices are paid, in addition to assisting in the annual budget planning process.
• May assist in the preparation of chromatography buffer, formulation buffers, etc. according to buffer sheets with quality and consistency as requested (20%)

How Will You Get Here?

Education

• Associates degree required or equivalent laboratory inventory management experience. Bachelors degree preferred.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• 1+ year experience in Laboratory Inventory Management.
• Project Management Skills:Ability to coordinate multiple concurrent setup activities and lead project timelines
• Interpersonal Skills:Excellent written and verbal communication abilities to coordinate with diverse customer groups
• Software Proficiency:Advanced skills in MS Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and project management tools
• Systems Thinking:Ability to design integrated laboratory systems and workflows
• Problem-Solving:Strong analytical skills to identify and resolve setup challenges
• Vendor Management:Experience with vendors and managing service agreements
• Adaptability:Ability to work in a multifaceted startup environment with changing priorities
• Lifting: The ability to regularly lift and move items weighing 30 to 50 pounds is a common requirement. Some roles may occasionally require lifting items up to 70-100 pounds, often with the use of material handling equipment like pallet jacks.

Preferred

• Laboratory Setup Experience:Previous experience in laboratory design, construction, or major equipment installations
• Regulatory Knowledge:Familiarity with laboratory safety regulations, good laboratory practices (GLP), and equipment validation procedures
• Technical Expertise:Understanding of laboratory equipment, instrumentation, and bioprocessing technologies

We offer competitive remuneration, annual incentive plan bonus scheme, healthcare, company 401k, and a range of employee benefits! Thermo Fisher Scientific offers employment with an innovative, forward-thinking organization, and outstanding career and development prospects. We offer an exciting company culture that stands for integrity, intensity, involvement, and innovation.

Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform critical job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request an accommodation.

Compensation and Benefits

The hourly pay range estimated for this position based in Massachusetts is $28.16–$38.00.

This position may also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on company, team, and/or individual performance results in accordance with company policy. We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package that our U.S. colleagues and their families can count on, which includes:

• A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs
• Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement
• At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy
• Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan
• Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount

For more information on our benefits, please visit: https://jobs.thermofisher.com/global/en/total-rewards