Lab Operations Specialist

Your Impact at LILA Lab Operations is the operational backbone that lets science move quickly. As a Lab Operations Specialist, you'll own the equipment, spaces, materials, and logistics that keep our labs running, and make them better as you go. You'll manage multiple workstreams with limited oversight, from equipment lifecycle and installs to inventory programs, shipping and receiving, and vendor relationships. You'll help improve lab operations processes, onboard scientists to lab tools and workflows, and mentor newer team members as the team scales. Your work keeps instruments serviced and tracked, helps stand up new lab spaces, and ensures Lila's experimental teams can move quickly across sites. What You'll Be Building Own equipment lifecycle, including preventive maintenance, calibration, troubleshooting, asset tagging, and CMMS tracking. Coordinate equipment installs, setup, moves, relocations, decommissions, and specialized or heavy-lift installs. Manage consumables, PPE, gas, dry ice, cold-storage programs, and inventory systems. Coordinate shipping, receiving, courier, warehouse, sample, and equipment logistics. Partner with Design and Facilities on new lab spaces, layouts, bench allocation, and room conversions. Manage vendor relationships, service scheduling, installation logistics, and the Lab Ops support-ticket queue. Respond to equipment and cold-storage alarms, and support EH&S and Procurement on compliance needs. Lead lab-efficiency improvements, mentor Lab Operations Associates, and onboard scientists to lab operations workflows. What You'll Need to Succeed 3+ years of experience in lab operations or lab management, preferably in a physical sciences environment. Experience managing and troubleshooting scientific equipment, including PMs, calibration, installs, and moves. Strong technical and functional skills, with the ability to manage priorities across multiple projects. Experience with lab inventory, asset, or work-order systems such as CMMS, ChemInventory, Jira, or Notion. Experience coordinating vendors for service, installs, moves, and logistics. Excellent communication, organization, and problem-solving skills. Working understanding of lab safety practices and comfort partnering with EH&S on waste streams and compliance. Ability to lift up to 40 lbs, work hands-on, and move around the lab for extended periods. Bonus Points For 5S, Six Sigma, or other process-improvement training. Chemical safety background, biohazard waste handling certification, or OSHA/HazMat certification. Experience with equipment install or relocation projects, CMMS administration, or vendor management. Experience supporting lab automation, robotics, or high-throughput environments. Background in chemistry, biology, materials science, or a related field. About LILA Lila Sciences is building Scientific Superintelligence™ to solve humankind's greatest challenges. We believe science is the most inspiring frontier for AI. Rather than hard-coding expert knowledge into tools, LILA builds systems that can learn for themselves. LILA combines advanced AI models with proprietary AI Science Factory™ instruments into an operating system for science that executes the entire scientific method autonomously, accelerating discovery at unprecedented speed, scale, and impact across medicine, materials, and energy. Learn more at www.lila.ai. Guided by our core values of truth, trust, curiosity, grit, and velocity, we move with startup speed while tackling problems of historic importance. If this sounds like an environment you'd love to work in, even if you don't meet every qualification listed above, we encourage you to apply. We're All In Lila Sciences is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. Information you provide during your application process will be handled in a…

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