Team Leader - Sample Management

Work Schedule

Environmental Conditions

Job Description

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. 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, 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.

Location/Division Specific Information

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

The Sample Management Team Leader will be based in our GMP Labs in Athlone is working in a team managing all samples coming to the site for analysis and distribution of same.

You will be responsible for leading a dedicated team in sample management at Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., an outstanding chance for impactful leadership.

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.

Be part of an ambitious team that aims to compete at the highest level and achieve outstanding results. Let's make a difference together!

Hours: (applicants must be able to work these shifts)

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.

Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Watch as our colleagues explain 5 reasons to work with us. 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. #StartYourStory with PPD, part of Thermo Fisher Scientific, where diverse experiences, backgrounds and perspectives are valued.

Apply today! http://jobs.thermofisher.com