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About the Role
Engitix is seeking an experienced Facilities & Operations Lead to provide operational leadership across laboratory operations, facilities, health and safety, quality/compliance, and business continuity. This is a hands-on, high-visibility role ensuring scientific teams have safe, well-equipped, compliant, and resilient facilities.
Responsibilities
- Provide strategic oversight of laboratory operations, ensuring scientific teams have appropriate facilities, equipment, materials and operational support.
- Develop laboratory capacity and infrastructure plans aligned to current and future scientific requirements, leading the planning, procurement, installation and qualification of new laboratory equipment and infrastructure.
- Ensure critical laboratory equipment is covered by appropriate maintenance, monitoring, backup and contingency arrangements.
- Partner closely with IT, Biospecimens, and Data Integrity teams to strengthen the company's operational governance and compliance framework.
- Maintain audit readiness and support internal, external, partner and regulatory audits.
- Support compliance with relevant standards, including HTA requirements, ISO 27001 and data integrity.
- Provide oversight of the company's health and safety management arrangements.
- Act as senior escalation point for significant facilities, safety and operational incidents.
- Manage relationships with landlords, facilities providers, contractors and specialist consultants.
- Own or coordinate operational business-continuity and disaster-recovery arrangements.
- Develop contingency plans for critical equipment, utilities, facilities, suppliers, systems and personnel.
- Lead business-impact assessments and operational risk reviews.
- Lead, manage and develop a Laboratory Manager, setting clear objectives and supporting professional development.
- Act as a trusted operational adviser to scientific leaders and programme teams.
- Maintain a responsive, accountable and service-oriented Operations function.
Requirements
- Proven experience leading facilities and/or operations functions within a biotech, pharma, or scientific research organisation.
- Strong working knowledge of laboratory operations, equipment lifecycle management, and infrastructure planning.
- Experience operating within a regulated compliance environment (e.g. HTA, ISO standards, GxP, or equivalent), with a track record of audit readiness.
- Solid understanding of health and safety management systems, including COSHH and incident/emergency response.
- Confidence managing external relationships (landlords, contractors, consultants, suppliers) and internal cross-functional partnerships.
- Excellent judgement, discretion and the ability to act as a calm, credible escalation point during incidents.
Skills
- Laboratory operations
- Equipment lifecycle management
- Infrastructure planning
- Regulated compliance environment
- Audit readiness
- Health and safety management systems
- COSHH
- Incident/emergency response
- External relationship management
- Cross-functional partnership
- Business continuity
- Disaster recovery
- Risk management
Location
- London
Work Type
- Contract
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Experienced
About the Company
- Engitix is a London-based biotechnology company pioneering drug discovery in fibrosis and solid tumours through its proprietary human extracellular matrix (ECM) platform.
- Working from bespoke laboratory and office space at White City Place, and with active partnerships spanning major pharmaceutical collaborators, Engitix is scaling its scientific operations as it advances its portfolio toward clinical development.
- Engitix is a growing biotech company based in White City Place, West London.
- We are dedicated to developing better therapies for advanced fibrosis and solid tumours by leveraging our pioneering extracellular matrix (ECM) platform.
- Our platform allows the synthesis of realistic in vitro 3D models that serve as tools to transform our ability to identify new targets and biomarkers, determine mechanisms of action and more accurately predict the efficacy of therapeutic candidates.
- Join us today in our mission to create a healthier future for patients with life-threatening diseases such as fibrosis and cancer.