Coordinator Assistant Supervisor
Gaithersburg, Maryland
Responsibilities
Location Gaithersburg, MarylandUS Job ID REQ-056314The OneSource Coordinator Assistant Supervisor provides direct supervision, guidance, and support for staff coordinating the removal, redeployment, relocation, and decontamination of laboratory assets. The Supervisor will be responsible for ensuring all activities are executed efficiently, safely, and in compliance with all client requirements and regulatory guidelines, while cultivating a high-performance team culture focused on customer service, documentation accuracy, and operational excellence.
Job Responsibilities
- Coordinate and support Coordinator Assistant activities from planning through execution and completion, ensuring that all work aligns with lab protocols and timelines.
- Develop and maintain detailed project schedules, track milestones, and ensure accurate documentation of laboratory activities and results.
- Serve as a central contact for lab staff, scientists, management, and external vendors, ensuring effective communication on CA project updates, requirements, and changes.
- Organize and facilitate project meetings, record detailed meeting minutes, and monitor action items and deliverables within the lab environment.
- Monitor day-to-day project progress, proactively identify minor issues (such as equipment or vendor delays) and escalate significant risks to lab management as needed.
- Ensure compliance with safety, quality, and regulatory requirements by supporting risk assessments, audits, and protocol adherence throughout the project lifecycle.
- Maintain up-to-date and audit-ready project documentation, including experimental data, reports, and compliance records.
- Contribute to process improvement initiatives within laboratory operations, sharing ideas and supporting implementation as appropriate.
- Ensure effective asset tracking, reporting, and records management to provide transparency and support audit readiness.
- Ensure coverage and business continuity by cross-training staff and serving as backup for critical roles as necessary.
- Support management with special projects, reporting, or new initiatives, and adapt team assignments as business needs evolve.
- Coordinate and organize walkthroughs of laboratory spaces with the CA team, collaborating closely with Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) and Janitorial staff to maintain cleanliness and ensure lab safety.
- Manage the scheduling of laboratory cleaning and decontamination processes.
- Partner with Metrology and Facilities to monitor the progress of open work orders as pertaining to PerkinElmer managed or maintained assets, ensuring timely completion and providing updates to the scientific community.
- Oversee the coordination of cold storage and incubator triaging, including the management of repairs and related work orders.
- Collaborate with the CAPEX team to ensure that new instrumentation is recorded in the OneSource Digital Platform and integrated with the Building Management System where required.
- Oversee the CA support of CAPEX site surveys as needed
- Oversee small equipment relocation projects and report back progress to relevant management and stakeholders
- Maintain training and compliance in areas of health and safety, security, environmental and operational aspects of daily activities in the working environment.
Nothing in this job description restricts management’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities of this job at any time.
Critical Skills:
- Strong communication and training skills
- Excellent organizational skills; ability to troubleshoot and solve problems independently
- Ability to follow oral and written directions
- Basic experience with MS Office: Excel, Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint
- Self-motivated and ability to work under pressure to balance conflicting deadlines
- Excellent customer service skills complemented by an ability to listen to and interpret client requests.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Science, or related field with 2 or more years of related experience
- Associate’s Degree in Business or Science with 5 or more years of related experience OR
- High School Degree/GED with 7+ years of related experience
Preferred Qualifications:
- Solid understanding of how R&D laboratories function and has a proven track record of supporting those activities at various complexity levels
- Background in a laboratory setting with a Chemistry/Biology focus
- PMP or other Project Management Certification
Working Environment:
- Must be able to work in a laboratory, controlled environments requiring personal protective equipment (e.g., lab coat, safety glasses, etc.) in laboratory.
- Job pace may be fast and job completion demands may be high.
- Must be able to remain in a stationary position more than 25% of the time
- The person needs to occasionally move between labs, corridors, adjoining rooms, and buildings onsite Frequently operate on instruments, objects, tools or controls, which will require regularly bending, squatting, stretching and reaching in order to perform in a service function.
- Occasionally move or lift up to 25 pounds (potential for occasional lifting of up to 50 pounds).
- Specific vision abilities required by this position include without limitation, the ability to observe details at close range distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus in order to perform the essential service functions of this position.
- Occasionally operates a computer and other office machinery, such as a calculator, copy machine, and computer printer.
- Employee may be required to handle hazardous waste according to local, state, and federal regulations. Duties may include identifying, handling, generating, accumulating, storing and labeling hazardous waste.
- Potential risk to lab-based hazards including but not limited to extreme temperature, biological materials, and hazardous chemicals.
- May be required to complete Medical Clearance, Respiratory Protection Training, and Fit Testing to wear a respirator as protection against hazards present in the laboratory environment.
The annual compensation range for this full-time position is $65,000.00 to $75,000.00. The final base pay offered to the successful candidate will be determined by factors including internal equity, work location, as well as individual qualifications, such as job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
PerkinElmer is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability status, age, or veteran status or any other characteristics protected by applicable law. PerkinElmer is committed to a culturally diverse workforce.
