About the Role
The Facility & Operations Assistant will support the day-to-day operations of the facility, ensuring a safe, clean, organized, and efficient workplace for laboratory and office teams. This role focuses on facility coordination, inventory management, shipping and receiving, equipment upkeep, and vendor coordination.
Responsibilities
- Maintain a clean, organized, and efficient laboratory environment.
- Manage laboratory inventory, including ordering, receiving, and stocking.
- Coordinate inbound and outbound shipments, including hazardous materials.
- Coordinate equipment servicing, preventative maintenance, calibration, and repairs.
- Respond to monitored laboratory equipment alarms and participate in an on-call rotation.
- Coordinate laboratory waste disposal, recycling, and chemical waste collection.
- Maintain equipment records, maintenance schedules, and inventory logs.
- Support EHS initiatives by assisting with inspections, safety programs, and regulatory compliance.
- Maintain clean, organized, and welcoming office, kitchen, meeting, and common areas.
- Order, receive, stock, and manage office supplies, kitchen supplies, and workplace essentials.
- Maintain kitchen cleanliness and ensure shared spaces remain tidy.
- Prepare meeting rooms for meetings, training sessions, and events.
- Assist with employee onboarding by preparing workstations and office supplies.
- Support office moves, workstation setup, and general office organization.
- Assist with employee events and workplace initiatives.
- Coordinate with vendors, contractors, and building management for office operations.
Requirements
- Office/facilities experience including purchasing, shipping and receiving, contractor/service provider procurement and management, equipment and consumables inventory management, and project planning and execution.
- Awareness of employee and environmental health and safety guidelines.
- Computer/IT literacy, including Excel-based database/master file setup and maintenance.
- Experience and competency with word-processing and spreadsheet programs.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and adapt to changes with a proactive attitude.
- Familiarity with laboratory equipment is a plus.
- Strong attention to detail and organizational skills.
- Good communication and teamwork skills.
Skills
- Purchasing
- Shipping and receiving
- Contractor/service provider procurement and management
- Equipment and consumables inventory management
- Project planning and execution
- Environmental health and safety guidelines
- Excel
- Word processing
- Spreadsheet programs
- Attention to detail
- Organizational skills
- Communication
- Teamwork
Location
- South San Francisco, CA
Work Type
- On-site
- Part-time
Salary/Compensations
- $30 – $34 per hour
About the Company
- Parvus Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biotechnology company pioneering in vivo generation of antigen-specific Treg cell therapy to treat and potentially cure autoimmune disease.
- Parvus pMHC nanomedicines trigger in vivo differentiation of the patients own autoreactive T-cells into antigen-specific Treg cells that home to target sites of inflammation and restore local immune tolerance without broad immunosuppression.
- The Parvus lead drug candidate, PVT201, targets autoimmune liver disease and organ transplant rejection has demonstrated favorable safety, pharmacokinetics, and on-target pharmacodynamic activity in a Phase 1 first-in-human study.
- PVT401, being developed in partnership with AbbVie, targets inflammatory bowel disease and has entered clinical evaluation.
- Additional pMHC nanomedicine programs address type 1 diabetes, multiple sclerosis, celiac disease, and rheumatoid arthritis.
