Team Lead Sample Management

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.; Swindon; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A global laboratory services provider seeks a Sr. Sample Coordinator in Swindon. You will oversee sample management tasks, mentor staff, and ensure compliance with procedures. Strong organizational and communication skills are essential. Join us in making the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. Competitive benefits and a commitment to integrity are offered.

Qualifications

• Good organizational skills to adapt to changing priorities.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to handle multiple assignments with conflicting deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Oversight and performance of sample management tasks.
• Train, mentor, and assess sample management staff needs.
• Respond to environmental unit alarms and participate in on-call responsibilities.

Skills

Good organizational skills

Strong written and oral communication skills

Critical thinking skills

Proven leadership abilities

Ability to work in a collaborative team environment

Job description

Work Schedule

First Shift (Days)

Environmental Conditions

Some degree of PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) required (safety glasses, gowning, gloves, lab coat, ear plugs etc.)

Job Description

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life - enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research, development and delivery of life-changing therapies. With clinical trials conducted in 100+ countries and ongoing development of novel frameworks for clinical research through our PPD clinical research portfolio, our work spans laboratory, digital and decentralized clinical trial services. Your determination to deliver quality and accuracy will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on – now and in the future.

Our Laboratory Services team - through the expertise of scientists, industry thought-leaders and therapeutic experts - has a direct impact on improving health, cleanliness and safety. As the world leader in serving science, our laboratory professionals bring their commitment to accuracy and quality to deliver groundbreaking innovations.

Discover Impactful Work

Fulfills all of the duties of a Sr. Sample Coordinator in addition to oversight, coordination, and continued development of the technical training needs of all sample coordinators. Mentors and assesses staff through the normal course of their daily duties. Oversees scheduling of sample management staff and assists management with oversight of the department.

Essential Functions

• Performs any or all Sample Coordinator functions to include oversight and performance of a variety of complex standard tasks and sample tasks (receipt, accessioning, routing, storage, aliquoting, shipping, discard, destruction, etc.) in support of the Sample Management department.
• Oversees the scheduling of sample coordinators. Assists management with oversight of the department. Acts as back-up in the absence of management. Acts as a technical liaison for project-specific sample-management procedures.
• Actively trains, mentors and assesses the needs of the sample management staff. Manages staff training documents, assessments, and records.
• Responds to environmental unit alarms and participate in on-call responsibilities.
• Performs work assignments accurately and in a timely and safe manner.

Job Complexity

Works on difficult or complex assignments requiring considerable judgment and initiative to resolve issues. Understands implications of work and makes recommendations for solutions and / or new procedures.

Job Knowledge

• As a skilled or highly skilled specialist, completes tasks in resourceful and / or creative ways, and may contribute to the development of concepts and techniques
• May act independently on determining methods and procedures on new assignments.
• May be a facilitator and / or team leader (formal or informal).

Business Relationships

Contacts are frequent with individuals representing outside organizations, and / or individuals of significant importance within the company. Contacts involve planning and preparation of communications, requiring skill, tact, persuasion and / or negotiation to accomplish the objectives of the communication.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Good organizational skills with the ability to adapt and adjust to changing priorities and to handle multiple assignments with challenging/conflicting deadlines
• Strong written and oral communication skills as well as presentation skills
• Competent with computers and enterprise applications
• Critical thinking skills to support quality decision making
• Proven compliance with procedures and policies
• Proven leadership abilities
• Ability to work in a collaborative team environment

Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. As one team of 100,000+ colleagues, we share a common set of values - Integrity, Intensity, Innovation and Involvement - working together to accelerate research, solve complex scientific challenges, drive technological innovation and support patients in need.

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Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.