Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) Administrator at 54gene

Reports to: VP, Lab Operation
Department: Laboratory Operations

Position Summary

• The LIMS Administrator role encompasses many aspects of sample management, analysis configuration, and overall lab documentation management. Instrument calibrations, chemical management, and on-site/virtual training are other key responsibilities in this role.
• Maintenance support, design & build, updating existing data, and adding new data points while updating business and user documentation are other key responsibilities.
• This position is expected to provide leadership to support LIMS and continue to improve the application to support the business and laboratory needs.
• Seeking an individual who has experience managing an application and supporting multiple users across various sites. Communication, organization, and initiative are key skills needed for this role.

Essential Functions

• Ensure on-time and in-scope implementation of enhancements to system
• Provide end-user support
• Provide first level diagnostic of incidents and support end-users and work with IT to resolve issues
• Responsible for master data management
• Create data queries against database
• Create reports using Crystal Reports
• Create/Update documentation

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree or IT (Technical Degree) in Computer Science, Life Sciences (Biology, Chemistry or related discipline) preferred
• A minimum of 3 years of experience in use/administration of LIMS.

Knowledge, Experience and Skills:

• At least one year of  Crystal Reports experience
• Coding experience desired
• Working knowledge of LIMS Basic, Crystal Reports, Chemistry, Laboratory Research Environments, application support
• Prior experience with LIMS system
• Sample management experience
• Lab experience or other application support for laboratory research is preferable
• Business support analyst, senior application analyst or other IT related experience is preferred.