Lab Operations Manager
Flagship Pioneering · Boston, MA · 3 wk ago
On-siteManagement$126k–$160k/yrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role? Actually the posting includes "COMPANY DESCRIPTION", "THE ROLE", "KEY RESPONSIBILITIES", "Professional Experiences & Qualifications", "ABOUT FLAGSHIP PIONEERING". Also there is salary range and benefits mention. We need to use for section headings (e.g., About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). We should not repeat job title as heading. We need to include sections only when posting has real specific content. So we need to map content to appropriate headings.
We have:
- Company description: Could be under "About the role"? Actually "About the role" is typical heading for description of role. But we have separate "THE ROLE" paragraph describing role and what they seek. That could be under "About the role". Also "COMPANY DESCRIPTION" could be maybe under "About the company"? Not in allowed headings list. The allowed headings list includes About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We should not invent headings not in list. So we need to fit content into those headings.
We have responsibilities (KEY RESPONSIBILITIES) -> use
for section headings (e.g., About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). We should not repeat job title as heading. We need to include sections only when posting has real specific content. So we need to map content to appropriate headings.
We have:
- Company description: Could be under "About the role"? Actually "About the role" is typical heading for description of role. But we have separate "THE ROLE" paragraph describing role and what they seek. That could be under "About the role". Also "COMPANY DESCRIPTION" could be maybe under "About the company"? Not in allowed headings list. The allowed headings list includes About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We should not invent headings not in list. So we need to fit content into those headings.
We have responsibilities (KEY RESPONSIBILITIES) -> use Responsibilities
with - items.
We have qualifications/experience: "Professional Experiences & Qualifications" -> could be under
Qualifications
(or Requirements). The list includes both Requirements and Qualifications. We can combine. Probably use Qualifications heading for the bullet list of experiences/qualifications.
We have skills: maybe from bullet list like "Great attention to detail..." etc. Could be under Skills.
We have benefits: mention "Mirai Bio currently offers healthcare coverage, annual incentive program, retirement benefits and a broad range of other benefits." Also earlier: "Compensation and benefits information is based on Mirai Bio's good faith estimate..." So we can create Benefits section with those items.
Pay: salary range $126,000 - $159,500. So we can create Pay section.
Schedule: not mentioned. So we should not include Schedule.
We also have "ABOUT FLAGSHIP PIONEERING" which is company description about Flagship. Could be considered part of About the role? Might be extra but we could include under About the role? The instruction: "Use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." It says e.g., meaning those are examples, but we should likely only use those headings. However we could also include "About the company" if not in list? Safer to stick to list. So we could put company description under About the role? But About the role is supposed to describe the role, not company. However we have no other heading for company description. Could we omit it? The instruction: "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." So we must include company description somewhere. If we don't have a heading for it, we could put it in a
without a heading? The instruction says use
for section headings (e.g., About the role, Responsibilities...). It doesn't forbid having paragraphs without headings. So we can include a
for company description without a heading, or we could treat it as "About the role" but that might be misleading. Better to include a
for company description before any headings.
Similarly, "THE ROLE" paragraph could be under About the role heading.
Thus structure:
Company description paragraph.
About the role
The role paragraph...
Responsibilities
...
Qualifications
...
(or maybe split into Requirements and Qualifications; but we can combine.)
We also have Skills bullet list: "Great attention to detail, including a proven ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously, as well as the ability to think strategically and execute methodicallyA high level of initiative, good judgment, and the ability to work with little supervision. Commitment to qualityAn active problem solver, who can act independently, think critically and creativelyGreat interpersonal skills and willingness to work within a collaborative team setting and across functional areasTeam player mentality is a mustAbility to collaborate with a wide array of personalities and work stylesExcellent organizational, verbal, written communication". This is a run-on list; we can split into items.
We could put those under Skills
with - .
Benefits: healthcare coverage, annual incentive program, retirement benefits, broad range of other benefits.
Pay: salary range $126,000 - $159,500.
We should not include Schedule.
We must remove boilerplate: EEO, privacy notices duplicated, recruitment agency stuff, etc. Also remove "Privacy Notice for Applicants" duplicated lines. Also remove "We are an equal opportunity employer." etc.
We need to preserve all substantive information: company description, role description, responsibilities, qualifications/experiences, skills, benefits, pay.
We must not include headings with filler text.
Now craft HTML.
We need to ensure proper escaping? Not needed.
Let's extract company description:
"Mirai Bio is a privately-held, Flagship-founded biotechnology company that is delivering genetic medicines from promise to performance. Mirai was built to solve one of the field’s central challenges: achieving precise, scalable delivery of diverse nucleic acid payloads to specific cells and tissues, particularly beyond the liver. By combining a large and growing proprietary in vivo biodistribution dataset, machine learning-guided lipid nanoparticle optimization, modular targeted particle design, and integrated translation and manufacturing capabilities, Mirai helps partners accelerate development, reduce technical risk, and pursue high-value programs making delivery a strategic advantage. We are seeking collaborative, relentless problem solvers that share our passion for defining the future of genetic medicines together."
That's substantive.
Now THE ROLE paragraph:
"We are a highly dynamic, entrepreneurial, and innovation-driven team seeking to hire an exceptional Lab Operations Manager to join our growing team. A successful candidate will have a proven track record in managing laboratory facilities of increasing complexity, vendors, and teams in a fast-paced and dynamic laboratory environment."
That's about the role.
Now KEY RESPONSIBILITIES list: we need to parse each bullet.
The text after "KEY RESPONSIBILITIES" is a long sentence with many items separated by commas and "and". We need to split into sensible list items.
Let's extract:
- Maintain and optimize processes within the lab to increase efficiency and effectiveness, including managing inventory, lab consumables, and chemicals
- Manage the acquisition and maintenance of all major lab equipment, including service contracts, preventative maintenance and calibration schedules
- Oversee lab safety and regulatory compliance, including tracking of biologics, chemicals, and hazardous materials, and enforcing PPE policy and lab safety rules.
- Manage external providers for laboratory support services including: lab supplies, inventory management, facility support, environmental health safety (EHS), and information technology (IT).
- Coordinate annual laboratory permits and license renewals, and laboratory operations deliveries/shipments inside and out of labs, including waste removal
- Manage shipping for domestic and international shipments of lab materials, including the preparation of material for shipment and receiving from external vendors
- Establish lab procedures; create and manage lab-related documentation, and organizational processes such as annual laboratory cleanouts and micropipette calibrations
- Collaborate regularly with scientists to identify and address any workflow bottlenecks, inefficiencies, opportunities for process improvement, and logistical or administrative issues in the lab
- Anticipate, troubleshoot, and resolve problems associated with work within the laboratory setting, including occasional off-hours responses to laboratory emergencies
- Own general office operations, including stocking office supplies and coordinating with catering provider to stock cafeteria snack area.
- Coordinate with Facilities / IT Helpdesk to ensure operation of conference rooms, copy room, and general office area.
- Coordinate logistics for occasional larger meetings, including catering, transportation, and working with event coordinators.
- Contribute to budget planning, tracking of laboratory and office expenses, and review of service contracts with providers.
Now Professional Experiences & Qualifications list:
- Bachelor’s degree in sciences or engineering related fields, or comparable industry experience
- At least 5+ years of relevant experience in lab management
- Experience working in a Biotech/Pharmaceutical laboratory environment
- Experience in multiple areas of lab management, including operations, vendor management, procurement, and safety.
- Knowledge of local, state, and applicable federal regulations relating to lab safety
- Direct experience with LIMS, Laboratory Software, and Enterprise Software Systems
- Great attention to detail, including a proven ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously, as well as the ability to think strategically and execute methodically
- A high level of initiative, good judgment, and the ability to work with little supervision.
- Commitment to quality
- An active problem solver, who can act independently, think critically and creatively
- Great interpersonal skills and willingness to work within a collaborative team setting and across functional areas
- Team player mentality is a must
- Ability to collaborate with a wide array of personalities and work styles
- Excellent organizational, verbal, written communication
Now Benefits: "Mirai Bio currently offers healthcare coverage, annual incentive program, retirement benefits and a broad range of other benefits."
Pay: "The salary range for this role is $126,000 - $159,500. Compensation for the role will depend on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies, and experience."
We could include that as Pay section.
Now we need to output HTML fragment only.
Let's construct:
Company description...
About the role
Role description...
Responsibilities
- ...
...
Qualifications
- ...
...
Skills
- Great attention to detail, including a proven ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously, as well as the ability to think strategically and execute methodically
- A high level of initiative, good judgment, and the ability to work with little supervision.
- Commitment to quality
- An active problem solver, who can act independently, think critically and creatively
- Great interpersonal skills and willingness to work within a collaborative team setting and across functional areas
- Team player mentality is a must
- Ability to collaborate with a wide array of personalities and work styles
- Excellent organizational, verbal, written communication
Benefits
- Healthcare coverage
- Annual incentive program
- Retirement benefits
- Broad range of other benefits
Pay
The salary range for this role is $126,000 - $159,500. Compensation for the role will depend on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies, and experience.
We should not include Schedule.
Check for any duplicated content: we have not included privacy notices, EEO, recruitment agency stuff, etc.
Make sure we didn't miss any substantive info: The "ABOUT FLAGSHIP PIONEERING" section is not included. That's substantive about Flagship. Should we include it? It's about the parent company. Could be considered company description? But we already have Mirai Bio description. The Flagship description is also substantive. We could include it under About the role? Or maybe under a separate heading like "About Flagship Pioneering" but not in allowed headings. However we could incorporate it into the company description paragraph as additional
Qualifications
(or Requirements). The list includes both Requirements and Qualifications. We can combine. Probably use Qualifications heading for the bullet list of experiences/qualifications. We have skills: maybe from bullet list like "Great attention to detail..." etc. Could be under Skills. We have benefits: mention "Mirai Bio currently offers healthcare coverage, annual incentive program, retirement benefits and a broad range of other benefits." Also earlier: "Compensation and benefits information is based on Mirai Bio's good faith estimate..." So we can create Benefits section with those items. Pay: salary range $126,000 - $159,500. So we can create Pay section. Schedule: not mentioned. So we should not include Schedule. We also have "ABOUT FLAGSHIP PIONEERING" which is company description about Flagship. Could be considered part of About the role? Might be extra but we could include under About the role? The instruction: "Usefor section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." It says e.g., meaning those are examples, but we should likely only use those headings. However we could also include "About the company" if not in list? Safer to stick to list. So we could put company description under About the role? But About the role is supposed to describe the role, not company. However we have no other heading for company description. Could we omit it? The instruction: "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." So we must include company description somewhere. If we don't have a heading for it, we could put it in a
without a heading? The instruction says use
for section headings (e.g., About the role, Responsibilities...). It doesn't forbid having paragraphs without headings. So we can include a
for company description without a heading, or we could treat it as "About the role" but that might be misleading. Better to include a
for company description before any headings. Similarly, "THE ROLE" paragraph could be under About the role heading. Thus structure:
Company description paragraph.
About the role
The role paragraph...
Responsibilities
- ...
Qualifications
- ...
Skills
with- .
Benefits: healthcare coverage, annual incentive program, retirement benefits, broad range of other benefits.
Pay: salary range $126,000 - $159,500.
We should not include Schedule.
We must remove boilerplate: EEO, privacy notices duplicated, recruitment agency stuff, etc. Also remove "Privacy Notice for Applicants" duplicated lines. Also remove "We are an equal opportunity employer." etc.
We need to preserve all substantive information: company description, role description, responsibilities, qualifications/experiences, skills, benefits, pay.
We must not include headings with filler text.
Now craft HTML.
We need to ensure proper escaping? Not needed.
Let's extract company description:
"Mirai Bio is a privately-held, Flagship-founded biotechnology company that is delivering genetic medicines from promise to performance. Mirai was built to solve one of the field’s central challenges: achieving precise, scalable delivery of diverse nucleic acid payloads to specific cells and tissues, particularly beyond the liver. By combining a large and growing proprietary in vivo biodistribution dataset, machine learning-guided lipid nanoparticle optimization, modular targeted particle design, and integrated translation and manufacturing capabilities, Mirai helps partners accelerate development, reduce technical risk, and pursue high-value programs making delivery a strategic advantage. We are seeking collaborative, relentless problem solvers that share our passion for defining the future of genetic medicines together."
That's substantive.
Now THE ROLE paragraph:
"We are a highly dynamic, entrepreneurial, and innovation-driven team seeking to hire an exceptional Lab Operations Manager to join our growing team. A successful candidate will have a proven track record in managing laboratory facilities of increasing complexity, vendors, and teams in a fast-paced and dynamic laboratory environment."
That's about the role.
Now KEY RESPONSIBILITIES list: we need to parse each bullet.
The text after "KEY RESPONSIBILITIES" is a long sentence with many items separated by commas and "and". We need to split into sensible list items.
Let's extract:
- Maintain and optimize processes within the lab to increase efficiency and effectiveness, including managing inventory, lab consumables, and chemicals
- Manage the acquisition and maintenance of all major lab equipment, including service contracts, preventative maintenance and calibration schedules
- Oversee lab safety and regulatory compliance, including tracking of biologics, chemicals, and hazardous materials, and enforcing PPE policy and lab safety rules.
- Manage external providers for laboratory support services including: lab supplies, inventory management, facility support, environmental health safety (EHS), and information technology (IT).
- Coordinate annual laboratory permits and license renewals, and laboratory operations deliveries/shipments inside and out of labs, including waste removal
- Manage shipping for domestic and international shipments of lab materials, including the preparation of material for shipment and receiving from external vendors
- Establish lab procedures; create and manage lab-related documentation, and organizational processes such as annual laboratory cleanouts and micropipette calibrations
- Collaborate regularly with scientists to identify and address any workflow bottlenecks, inefficiencies, opportunities for process improvement, and logistical or administrative issues in the lab
- Anticipate, troubleshoot, and resolve problems associated with work within the laboratory setting, including occasional off-hours responses to laboratory emergencies
- Own general office operations, including stocking office supplies and coordinating with catering provider to stock cafeteria snack area.
- Coordinate with Facilities / IT Helpdesk to ensure operation of conference rooms, copy room, and general office area.
- Coordinate logistics for occasional larger meetings, including catering, transportation, and working with event coordinators.
- Contribute to budget planning, tracking of laboratory and office expenses, and review of service contracts with providers.
Now Professional Experiences & Qualifications list:
- Bachelor’s degree in sciences or engineering related fields, or comparable industry experience
- At least 5+ years of relevant experience in lab management
- Experience working in a Biotech/Pharmaceutical laboratory environment
- Experience in multiple areas of lab management, including operations, vendor management, procurement, and safety.
- Knowledge of local, state, and applicable federal regulations relating to lab safety
- Direct experience with LIMS, Laboratory Software, and Enterprise Software Systems
- Great attention to detail, including a proven ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously, as well as the ability to think strategically and execute methodically
- A high level of initiative, good judgment, and the ability to work with little supervision.
- Commitment to quality
- An active problem solver, who can act independently, think critically and creatively
- Great interpersonal skills and willingness to work within a collaborative team setting and across functional areas
- Team player mentality is a must
- Ability to collaborate with a wide array of personalities and work styles
- Excellent organizational, verbal, written communication
Now Benefits: "Mirai Bio currently offers healthcare coverage, annual incentive program, retirement benefits and a broad range of other benefits."
Pay: "The salary range for this role is $126,000 - $159,500. Compensation for the role will depend on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies, and experience."
We could include that as Pay section.
Now we need to output HTML fragment only.
Let's construct:
Company description...
About the role
Role description...
Responsibilities
- ... ...
Qualifications
- ... ...
Skills
- Great attention to detail, including a proven ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously, as well as the ability to think strategically and execute methodically
- A high level of initiative, good judgment, and the ability to work with little supervision.
- Commitment to quality
- An active problem solver, who can act independently, think critically and creatively
- Great interpersonal skills and willingness to work within a collaborative team setting and across functional areas
- Team player mentality is a must
- Ability to collaborate with a wide array of personalities and work styles
- Excellent organizational, verbal, written communication
Benefits
- Healthcare coverage
- Annual incentive program
- Retirement benefits
- Broad range of other benefits
Pay
The salary range for this role is $126,000 - $159,500. Compensation for the role will depend on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies, and experience.
We should not include Schedule. Check for any duplicated content: we have not included privacy notices, EEO, recruitment agency stuff, etc. Make sure we didn't miss any substantive info: The "ABOUT FLAGSHIP PIONEERING" section is not included. That's substantive about Flagship. Should we include it? It's about the parent company. Could be considered company description? But we already have Mirai Bio description. The Flagship description is also substantive. We could include it under About the role? Or maybe under a separate heading like "About Flagship Pioneering" but not in allowed headings. However we could incorporate it into the company description paragraph as additional