Equipment & Facilities Coordinator

Location

Royston, Hertfordshire | United Kingdom

Job description

LEX Diagnostics is currently hiring an Equipment & Facilities Coordinator to become part of our Manufacturing team. In this position, you will collaborate closely with our Quality, Engineering and Biology departments to ensure the accurate calibration and servicing of the equipment in our cleanrooms and laboratories. Your role will be crucial to maintaining safe and efficient workplaces within our facilities.

LEX Diagnostics is an ambitious, well-funded point-of-care diagnostics business. We believe that fast, accessible molecular diagnostics will have a fundamental impact on how infectious diseases are managed at point of care and beyond. Our technology is uniquely able to address this challenge and we are commercialising it with partners who share our ambition. You can read more about LEX  here.

Joining the LEX team as an Equipment & Facilities Coordinator, you’ll be responsible for keeping our laboratories and clean rooms operating efficiently to ISO13485 standards. This position holds significant importance within the LEX team, as you will be responsible for overseeing and efficiently managing maintenance and calibration schedules throughout the company. Additionally, you will collaborate with external vendors and services as required.

Responsibilities will include:

• Ownership and management of the maintenance and calibration schedule of equipment, include uploading of documentation to the quality management system.
• Liaising with vendors for equipment supplies and repairs.
• Manage the installation of new equipment ensuring all documentation is stored appropriately and training is arranged.
• Contribute to the LEX HS&E and report into quarterly meetings.
• Conducting regular facility inspection to ensure compliance including risk assessments and training records.
• Coordinate PAT testing and ensure records are maintained.
• Ensure appropriate waste disposal and recycling is arranged and documented.
• Highlight changes to regulatory requirements and where appropriate suggest recommendations for improvements.
• Oversee the regular maintenance of lab environmental controls, compressed air supplies and process equipment and where necessary ensure validation is completed

Requirements

Following skills and experience required to be successful in this role:

• A minimum of 3 years’ experience preferably within a regulated environment.
• Proficient knowledge of facilities management operations.
• An understanding of best practise for working in bio labs and cleanrooms.
• Strong communication and organisational skills with the ability to multitask.
• Prior experience managing or working in ISO13485 facilities.
• Experience with an electronic Quality Management System (QMS).

Benefits

LEX Diagnostics is part of TTP Group, an employee-owned business. It operates from green surroundings in Melbourn, less than 10 miles south of Cambridge. TTP Group takes a long-term approach to investment and has been at the forefront of point-of-care diagnostics for over 20 years. Drawing upon the expertise of its consultants in the Life Science sector, and the management experience of a company with a 30-year track record of developing breakthrough technology and creating ambitious tech businesses, TTP Group invested core IP and staff into LEX in 2020.

Our benefits include

• Annual profit-related bonus
• Employer pension contribution of 12% of pensionable pay
• Private medical insurance for employees and dependants
• Free lunch and all-day refreshments
• Life insurance worth 6 x salary
• 25 days holiday with the option to carry over or bring forward 5 days
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave, with the option to return part-time for a year
• Electric car leasing scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Public Transport Season ticket loan
• A wide range of social clubs and activities including squash, Zumba, yoga, arts and crafts and even our own rock band!
• Local sports facilities and theatre discounts and memberships as well as our own onsite gym to use

This is an exciting opportunity within the LEX Diagnostics team and to help and support us with achieving our goal to commercialisation. If you’re looking to join a diverse and growing team, then apply now!

Every application will receive a response.

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