Overview
Sample Management Team Leader – At PPD, part of Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. The Sample Management Team Leader will be based in our GMP Labs in Athlone, working in a team managing all samples coming to the site for analysis and distribution of same. You will lead a dedicated team in sample management at Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., an outstanding opportunity for impactful leadership. Our Laboratory Services team has a direct impact on improving patient health through the expertise of scientists and industry leaders.
Location/Division Specific Information: Our PPD Laboratory Services team improves patient health by delivering accuracy and quality to groundbreaking innovations as the world leader in serving science.
Responsibilities
* Build work schedules and assignments.
* Ensure policies and procedures are accurate.
* Train staff and assess competence.
* Participate in staff hiring, corrective action, evaluation, and career progression.
* Coordinate sample accessioning, routing, storage, shipment, deidentification, relabelling, discard, destruction, and aliquoting.
* Review and recommend process improvements and efficiency gains.
* Recommend IT improvements.
* Author, review, and implement procedural documents.
* Define and monitor performance metrics for quality and efficiency.
* Serve as a back-up for management when needed.
* Ensure contracted maintenance and qualification of environmentally controlled units (ECU) or equipment used to prepare or store specimens is performed.
* Monitor ECU trending reports to prevent equipment failure.
* Ensure accurate call response processes and teams are in place to respond to ECU failures after-hours.
* Investigate and resolve problems with samples or shipments.
* Address Process Deviation Reports/CAPA.
* Participate in audits and general capabilities department tours.
* Respond to environmental unit alarms and participate in on-call responsibilities.
* Direct daily operations of work.
Requirements
* Secondary level education and ideally some 3rd level/formal qualification
* Min 2 years experience in GMP environment
* 1+ years experience demonstrating leadership qualities
* Proven track record in managing sample management operations.
* Strong leadership and team-building skills.
* Excellent communication and organizational abilities.
* Ability to successfully implement process improvements and efficiency gains.
* Experience in IT improvement recommendations.
* Competence in monitoring performance metrics for quality and efficiency.
* Willingness to participate in on-call responsibilities and address ECU failures.
Hours
Morning shift - 6.30am - 3.15pm M-T, 6.30am - 2.15pm F.
Core Shift - 8.30am - 5.15 M-T, 8.30am - 4.15pm F.
Evening Shift – 12.30pm – 9.00pm M-T, 11.30am-7pm F.
Rotational shift, evening shift every 4 weeks.
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