Manager, Warehouse

More than one million people in the United States today are fighting blood cancer. While a traditional allogeneic stem cell transplant has been the best hope for many, the transplant itself can prove fatal or lead to serious conditions, such as graft vs. host disease. Orca Bio is a commercial-stage biotechnology company redefining the transplant process by developing next-generation cell therapies with the goal of providing significantly better survival rates with dramatically fewer risks. With our purified, high-precision cell therapies we hope to not only replace patients' blood and immune systems with healthy ones, but also restore their lives. We have built a state-of-the-art, 100,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Sacramento, CA (7910 Metro Air Pkwy) to ensure the consistent and reliable delivery of our high-precision cell therapy products. This site is essential to advancing our clinical pipeline and supporting future commercial availability of our life-saving therapies. The Manager, Warehouse oversees warehouse operations and material flow to support clinical and commercial cell and gene therapy manufacturing. This role ensures compliant receipt, storage, inventory management, kitting, and timely delivery of materials to production suites, laboratories, and site support areas. The Manager maintains GMP-compliant warehouse practices, inventory accuracy, and material readiness while leading material handlers and establishing scalable processes to support operational growth. Physical Demands & Work Conditions Production Associates: Must have visual acuity of 20/20 (corrected or uncorrected) and normal color vision to safely perform critical tasks such as visual inspection of materials, equipment, and labeling, including distinguishing color-coded components in a GMP environment. Must meet cleanroom gowning requirements, including wearing full gowning (face coverings, gloves, hoods, goggles) for up to 3 consecutive hours at a time, minimal movement in the cleanroom, and working with or around human blood, blood-derived materials, cells, other biological materials, and alcohol-based sprays. Use of cosmetics (makeup, painted nails), jewelry, or facial piercings is not permitted in the cleanroom, and any skin conditions that cause shedding must be disclosed. Must be comfortable regularly participating in video-based meetings. Essential Duties & Key Responsibilities: Warehouse Operations & GMP Compliance: Oversee daily warehouse operations, including material receipt, inspection, labeling, storage, put-away, and distribution, ensuring compliance with applicable GMP/GTP/GDP requirements, site procedures, and safety standards. Inventory Management & Accuracy: Maintain accurate inventory records, material status, storage locations, and traceability within inventory management systems. Oversee cycle counts, inventory reconciliations, discrepancy investigations, and corrective actions to support inventory accuracy and material availability. Material Receipt & Control: Ensure incoming raw materials, reagents, consumables, and packaging components are received, documented, and appropriately identified, stored, and controlled according to their requirements and quality status before use. Production Material Supply & Kitting: Coordinate material picking, kitting, and staging to support manufacturing schedules and patient-specific production needs. Ensure kits are accurate, complete, appropriately controlled, and delivered to production in the required quantities and timeframes. Material Distribution & Point-of-Use Replenishment: Oversee the timely transport of materials to production suite material airlocks (MALs) and the replenishment of materials in cleanrooms, gowning areas, laboratories, packaging areas, and training spaces, maintaining appropriate stock levels and material controls. Stocking & Kanban Management: Establish and maintain stocking strategies, point-of-use inventory, and Kanban replenishment systems for frequentl…

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