Bio Labs Facility Manager
$50–$55,000 year
On-sitePhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Job Summary
Conduct daily lab maintenance by wiping down shared benches, ensuring equipment cleanliness, and organizing common areas. Enforce bio-safety Level 2 compliance, update standard operating protocols, and archive sign-up sheets for tissue culture hoods and equipment. Monitor contamination risks in incubators and hoods, manage hazardous waste disposal, and coordinate with tenants for proper biohazard removal. Perform quarterly re-certifications for fume hoods, maintain chemical and gas tank levels, and schedule preventative maintenance for major instruments. Serve as the primary knowledge contact for bio lab members regarding procedures and safety data sheets.
Required Qualifications
- experience in facilities or operations management
- trained to conduct the required lab procedures
- enforcing compliance-related issues covering up to bio-safety level 2 laboratories
- updating the shared labs standard operating protocols (SOP)
- archiving SOP from each bio labs at The Pennovation Center
- satisfying the OSHA and EPA requirements
- determining the scheduling and usage for shared instruments and space
- support and foster relationships with the bio lab members comprising of researchers, entrepreneurs, and industry partners
- Serve as a knowledge contact for Pennovation Center Bio Lab member questions
- Enforce and archive tissue culture hood sign-up sheets
- Document and archive equipment sign-up sheets and user records
- Maintain old and new equipment inventory and update their conditions
- Update shared lab protocol
- Monitor and test periodically for potential contamination in the tissue culture room, such as the CO2 tissue incubators and tissue culture hoods
- Support Pennovation Center on evaluating membership applicants
- Disposal of shared biohazard and hazardous waste
- Using 3M ATTEST sterilization tests to certify the effectiveness of autoclave sterilization
- Coordinating with tenants to properly dispose of their biohazard and hazardous waste
- Replace autoclave/glasswash disposables, such as sheets
- Monitor shared chemicals and reagents, replace when needed in the water processing
- Monitor CO2 gas tanks level in the tissue culture room and replace whenever necessary
- Compile and share safety data sheet (SDS) forms
- Store in a centralized and accessible location, on cloud and/or in a physical file cabinet
- Re-certification for fume hoods and tissue culture hoods
- Replacement of H20 processing consumables
- First aid training
- Stericycle safety training and mock audit
- Schedule Preventative Maintenance (PM) work done for major equipment (centrifuge, glasswashers, autoclave, gel fluorescent imager, and cellular imager)
- Replace Labor Laws poster and post it where visible to all members to see
- Shared Pipettes are to be calibrated twice a year
- Send new companies Fisher startup and Biolabs marketplace program
- Enforce members participation of Stericycle and Chemtron for hazardous waste disposal and OSHA storage area
- Conduct new bio lab member orientation, including distribution and communication of the shared bio lab standard operating protocol
- Serves as a knowledge source for the bio lab members
- Weekly monitoring, coordinating maintenance / repairs, record keeping, and enforcing an orderly usage of the autoclave machine and glass washers
- Monthly using 3M ATTEST sterilization tests to certify the effectiveness of autoclave sterilization
- Monthly replace autoclave / glass wash disposables, such as sheets and replace glass wash chemicals (Labklenz acid and alkaline)
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