Lab Operations Technician — Equipment & Facilities

Fate Therapeutics Inc.; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 36,000 - 41,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Equity

Benefits package

Job summary

Fate Therapeutics, Inc. seeks a hands-on Laboratory Operations professional to support facilities, technical operations, and R&D teams with lab operations and equipment management.

This 100% on-site role is based at our San Diego headquarters and reports to the Manager of Equipment Engineering. Your responsibilities include coordinating calibrations, maintenance, and relocations; maintaining equipment inventories; and ensuring SOP compliance and GDP documentation across R&D and manufacturing

Qualifications

• 1+ year of laboratory operations and equipment maintenance experience in biotech/pharma.
• Associate's degree preferred.
• Exposure to Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) preferred.
• Mechanical knowledge of equipment and tools with experience with biosafety cabinets, incubators, centrifuges, refrigerators, freezers, and other lab gear.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a point of contact supporting a high volume of R&D, Technical Operations, and Manufacturing end-user facility requests.
• Plan short- and long-term lab activities, coordinate calibration, maintenance, and relocation.
• Execute lab ops requests, calibrations, and work orders, ensuring on-time completion.
• Maintain equipment lists and enroll new equipment in calibration/maintenance schedules.
• Implement policies and procedures for equipment and lab activities.
• Track assets, records, and documents in required databases.
• Assist with calibration and maintenance including pipettes, biosafety cabinets, incubators with proper documentation.
• Oversee vendors and ensure tasks are performed compliantly with SOPs.
• Support maintenance of facilities' working standards across manufacturing and labs.
• Interact with departments to resolve lab ops, calibration, or equipment issues.
• Maintain safe work environment and PPE compliance.
• Maintain accurate equipment records and systems.
• Work independently with sound judgment on methods and tools.
• Collaborate with third-party vendors for service adherence to policies.

Skills

Lab operations

Equipment maintenance

Calibration

CMMS

Vendor management

GMP GDP documentation

Education

Associate's degree

Tools

CMMS

Calibration tools

Job description

Fate Therapeutics, Inc. seeks a hands-on Laboratory Operations professional to support facilities, technical operations, and R&D teams with lab operations and equipment management.

This 100% on-site role is based at our San Diego headquarters and reports to the Manager of Equipment Engineering. Your responsibilities include coordinating calibrations, maintenance, and relocations; maintaining equipment inventories; and ensuring SOP compliance and GDP documentation across R&D and manufacturing