Site Manager | Louisville

About Plasmidsaurus

Plasmidsaurus is on a mission to accelerate new cures and promote a healthier planet by unlocking a new level of productivity for scientists. Our sequencing services are used daily by thousands of innovators including Nobel laureates Fortune 100 pharma and over 70000 scientists.

We began by revolutionizing plasmid sequencing making it exponentially cheaper and faster with innovative sequencing technologies and a global network of laboratories that turn samples into answers in hours not weeks.

Now we are expanding that same disruptive model across all of genomics. With the launch of our new RNA-seq service we are taking a bold step toward our vision to sequence everything providing scientists everywhere with faster simpler and more affordable access to the data that powers discovery.

Every team member at Plasmidsaurus plays a crucial role in driving the future of biotech research. Together we are building the worlds most efficient sequencing engine that operates overnight scales globally and helps scientists make breakthroughs faster than ever before.

Role Overview

The Plasmidsaurus Louisville site needs someone to keep it running smoothly every single day. This role enables our scientists to focus on sequencing keeps the lab safe and efficient and makes sure every employee and visitor has a positive well-run experience on site.

Lab operations are the core of the job roughly 80-90% of your time with elements of office management and facility coordination folded in. Youll help make sure lab supplies are never a bottleneck for the team working across lab teams R&D and Procurement to build a relationship and system that enables productivity and efficiency for scientists. Youre the connective tissue holding the site together and making it hum: inventory equipment safety compliance team coordination and local facilities all in one seat.

Relocation assistance considered for exceptional candidates.

What Youll Do

Laboratory Operations

• Manage day-to-day lab organization and operational readiness across both Production and R&D.

• Own laboratory inventory and consumable stock via Quartzy including on-site purchasing and routine ordering; partner with Procurement to keep the process fast and frictionless.

• Coordinate equipment acquisition installation maintenance and repairs; maintain a full equipment list (asset condition maintenance schedule).

• Keep lab workspaces organized and efficient.

• Execute BSL2 safety procedures inspections and documentation including setup and oversight of a BSL2 room for potentially infectious material.

• Oversee hazardous materials waste pickups new waste stream profiling with vendors and storage compliance.

• Coordinate EH&S activities with Operations trainings and chemical/hazardous material inventory.

• Support lab budgeting and local operational spending.

• Coordinate deliveries and receive shipments.

Office & Workplace Operations

• Serve as primary point of contact for building management and local vendors (cleaning kitchen maintenance security).

• Coordinate light IT logistics with the IT team workstation setup accessories equipment inventory.

• Welcome candidates customers visitors and new hires.

• Flag and resolve site-level issues proactively partnering with Operations on larger projects.

• Support Lab and Operations during inspections or audits.

• Continuously improve how the site operates.

What Success Looks Like

The First Three Months

Safety-critical items including BSL2/BSL3 protocols are identified and addressed immediately as risks surface. Youve created an equipment list to document condition and maintenance schedules. A day-to-day process for ordering lab supplies is established via Quartzy. Youve built a relationship with Procurement lab leaders and R&D to help ensure getting the supplies the team needs happens fast and ordering is not a hurdle.

Candidates and visitors experience a welcoming well-organized office. Local safety inspections logs and operational checklists are consistently maintained. Key relationships are in place- facilities contacts vendors service schedules. the lab and facility are clean stocked and running without interruption.

Youve ensured systems are operational across safety inventory and ordering. Scientists and employees know where to go for support and get timely reliable help. Facility issues are handled quickly because the team knows who to call.

Within Six Months

Day-to-day management is smooth and sustained across lab and facility operations. Theres clear ownership of inventory equipment maintenance and office/lab supplies.

Workplace operations support a positive employee experience through well-maintained facilities organized common spaces and reliable onsite support.

You ensure that safety procedures are consistently executed and integrated into normal lab operations. Youre proactively identifying and resolving local operational issues. Youre partnering with the Site Manager in of SF headquarters to share solutions processes and best practices across sites

Within One Year

The Louisville site is recognized as a reliable organized scalable operation that enables scientific productivity rather than slowing it down. Lab operations scale with company growth without unnecessary administrative burden and general management responsibilities are well-established with clear team structure and accountability. The Louisville lab is a model site for expansion opportunities.

What You Bring

Experience:

• 2-4 years of experience in laboratory operations office operations workplace operations facilities or similar operational roles.

• Experience supporting laboratory environments preferably in biotech or life sciences. Experience with BSL2/BSL3 protocols needed.

• Experience coordinating vendors contractors equipment inventory deliveries facilities issues and workplace operations.

• Experience supporting safety procedures inspections documentation or EH&S activities in a laboratory setting.

• Startup or high-growth company experience strongly preferred.

Skills & Competencies:

• Strong organizational skills and the ability to balance many operational priorities simultaneously.

• A customer-service mindset. You enjoy making life easier for others and your wins are based on the success of the team around you.

• Able to quickly build productive relationships with scientists vendors facilities teams and visitors.

• Efficient in your work and your working relationships. You can get the information or access you need from the team around you to move a project forward independently extending the teams capacity rather than drawing on it.

• Notices problems before others do and enjoys solving them.

• Comfortable moving between hands-on work vendor coordination and process improvement.

• Practical and execution-oriented with strong follow-through.

Ways You Work:

Build You build the systems that keep the site running: efficient equipment maintenance schedules streamlined ordering processes and safety checklists that hold up over time. First-principles thinking that finds a better way to run things not just the standard one.

Own Everything you touch is yours to make excellent. Youre exceptionally organized highly reliable and practical and execution-oriented with strong follow-through noticing problems before others do and taking responsibility for fixing them.

Move Youre comfortable balancing many operational priorities at once and moving fluidly between hands-on work vendor coordination and process improvement. Bias to action not analysis paralysis.

Participate Strong customer-service mindset: you build productive relationships with scientists vendors facilities teams and visitors and genuinely enjoy making life easier for the people around you.

Inspire You raise the bar for how the site runs freeing scientists to focus on the science and making Louisville a site people are proud to work out of.

We encourage you to apply even if your experience doesnt perfectly align with the job description as we seek out diverse and creative perspectives. Team members who love to learn and collaborate in an inclusive environment will thrive with us. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race religion color national origin gender sexual orientation age marital status veteran status or disability status. If you need additional accommodations to feel comfortable during your interview process please let us know at

Required Experience:

Manager