Project Manager: Biosafety and Facility Manager

3 weeks ago


Cape Town, South Africa South African Medical Research Council (MRC) Full time

**CENTRE FOR TUBERCULOSIS RESEARCH**

**(CAPE TOWN)**

**The South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) strives to improve the nation’s health and quality of life by funding and conducting relevant and leading health research. **It further aims to promote equity, career development and progression.

**PROJECT MANAGER: Biosafety and Facility Manager**

***Duration: Permanent post**:
A position for a Project Manager (Biosafety and Facility Manager) is currently available for appointment at the CTR based at Stellenbosch University’s Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences.

The Biosafety Level 3 (BSL-3) facility within the new, state-of-the-art Biomedical Research Institute at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences is a shared facility between the CTR and the Faculty and serves over 100 researchers from the Department of Biomedical Sciences and beyond. The facility requires a detail-oriented, organized and highly motivated individual to take on the role of the Project Manager (Biosafety and Facility Manager). The key responsibilities of this position are to (a) ensure compliance of all staff and students working in the facility to safety and regulatory requirements, (b) general operational and safety management, and (c) ensure facility registration with authoritative organizations.

**Responsibilities**:

- Overall management of a BSL-3 laboratory
- Facility Management - Overseeing the day-to-day operations, including the implementation of workflow, and booking management, equipment and facility maintenance and shutdowns, responding to afterhours emergencies as needed, overseeing waste management for the facility.
- Inventory Management - Overseeing the procurement of stock and equipment as needed.
- Regulatory - Ensuring compliance of the facility and all users to regulatory requirements of DALRRD and to the University’s Research Ethics Committee: Biological and Environmental Safety (REC: BES) requirements, ensuring that the relevant facility registrations are renewed, preparing for and leading audit teams as required.
- Safety - Overseeing compliance with occupational health screening and medical surveillance for all users of the facility, monitoring incident reporting, acting as safety officer for the facility and representing the facility at Faculty safety committee meetings and performing Risk Assessments.
- Quality and Document Management - Writing and reviewing SOPs, policy documents and equipment logs, upkeep of document management system and investigating non-conformances.
- Training and Competency - Providing safety training and facility inductions for staff, students and visitors, and performing competency assessments prior to granting access to new users and supervising students.
- Financial - Billing, managing facility budget, reviewing user fees and projections for reporting.

**Core** Requirements**:

- MSc (or equivalent) or a PhD in Molecular Biology, Immunology, Microbiology, or related field of infectious diseases is required or similar qualification or higher.
- 4 years laboratory management experience.
- Experience working in a BSL3 environment.
- Certificate of competency in a BSL3 laboratory
- Experience with regulatory requirements within a BSL3 laboratory
- Experience with GLP and safety within a BSL3 laboratory
- Knowledge and experience of procurement processes within a laboratory
- Experience with Standard Operating Procedure and Report writing

**Advantageous**:

- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Excellent organizational and time management skills
- Extensive knowledge of ISO 15189 guidelines
- Experience in the field of Tuberculosis or Infectious Diseases
- Formal management training

A salary in the region of R 735 534 per annum, cost-to-company, will be negotiated in consideration of experience and qualifications.

Closing date: 07 July 2023

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