R&D Lab Manager: Lead Innovation & Impact

HITEC; Brea (CA); On-site; USD 132,000 - 211,000; Full time

Job summary

BD in USA California – Brea is seeking a Lab Manager, Shared Services Development to oversee day-to-day lab operations and strategic improvements across an R&D site. You will forecast resources, assign tasks to technicians, and drive lab projects to meet continuous improvement goals.

You will develop performance metrics, supervise lab staff, and ensure compliance with GDP/GLP and regulatory standards. This role requires strong design-control experience and cross-functional collaboration with

Qualifications

• BS in engineering or related field with lab experience.
• Experience with product development and laboratory settings.

Responsibilities

• Leads one of the shared services product development or packaging laboratories located in New Jersey, California, or Illinois.
• Executes strategy for the Lab site.
• Manages lab supervisor(s).
• Ensures facility compliance to latest standards for EHS and other relevant standards for lab site.
• Ensures organizational awareness of internal and external lab capabilities for efficient project execution.
• Manages capital budget allocated to lab site.
• Manages and monitors lab expenses.
• Using knowledge and experience of design control, guide lab team for execution.
• Ensures projects and products are completed on time and are of BD quality.
• Communicate across the organization to inform and resolve issues.
• Develops and maintains metrics that demonstrate measurable improvements.
• Responsible for oversight of work product for associates within their team.
• Responsible for development of associate career progression.
• Is responsible for lab functions additional to testing, such as environmental chambers supervision, aging program coordination, equipment maintenance, calibration coordination, test procedures maintenance, tool and fixtures designing, EHS representation.
• Responsible for maintaining good documentation practice (GDP), good laboratory practices (GLP) and supports compliance with GLP.
• Participates as primary Lab contact during audits.
• Ensures support and training to technicians.
• Responsible for team coordination with facilities to address equipment breakdowns / repairs.
• Responsible for team coordination with Quality that chamber excursions are documented and addressed.
• Primary interface with facilities, corporate procurement, EHS team, and intercompany lab improvement efforts.
• Create/ maintains procedure document revisions, gap analysis, and rationale for updates.

Skills

Lab compliance

Technical leadership

Communication

Design Control

GDP/GLP knowledge

Math / Statistics

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor of Science in Engineering

Associate's degree in engineering

Job description

BD in USA California – Brea is seeking a Lab Manager, Shared Services Development to oversee day-to-day lab operations and strategic improvements across an R&D site. You will forecast resources, assign tasks to technicians, and drive lab projects to meet continuous improvement goals.

You will develop performance metrics, supervise lab staff, and ensure compliance with GDP/GLP and regulatory standards. This role requires strong design-control experience and cross-functional collaboration with