Principal Scientist, Liquid handling Lab Leader, Compound Management

Role Summary

You are a self-motivated, curious, creative and agile technology expert and leader with strong liquid handling, compound management and process automation skills, who enjoys contributing to lab work and process improvement as well as guiding and developing associates in your team. You enjoy working in a collaborative, fast-paced environment and want to positively impact drug discovery through liquid handling technologies.

Responsibilities

• Manage a high-throughput liquid handling laboratory for compound plate generation.
• Maintain and troubleshoot automated liquid handling workstations and automated compound management systems.
• Develop, document and maintain SOPs for process and quality control.
• Proactively identify and implement improvements to enhance system performance and reliability.
• Set up new liquid handling systems and processes in close collaboration with the CM automation engineering teams.
• Coordinate plating requests with the internal stakeholders.
• Present compound management activities and study results in cross-functional meetings.
• Lead and develop a team of one to three associates.

Qualifications

• BS or MS in Chemistry, Biochemistry, Engineering, or related field, with 10+ years‚Äô relevant experience, or PhD with 5+ years relevant experience
• Strong expertise in liquid handling processes and automation with multi-year, hands-on experience with different liquid handling equipment (e.g. Hamilton STARlet, Tecan Freedom EVO, CyBio FeliX, Echo acoustic dispenser).
• Hands-on experience with various liquid handling and lab automation system software, ideally includes scripting skills (e.g. Venus, EvoWare, Momentum, Cellario, GBG).
• Proven experience in compound management in a LMW drug discovery organization.
• High attention to detail and commitment to operational excellence.
• Strong organizational and time-management skills.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively within multidisciplinary global teams.
• Flexibility and responsiveness to shifting priorities.
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.