What are the responsibilities and job description for the Life Sciences Operations Director position at First Onsite - US?
A Day in the Life of a Life Sciences Operations Director
As the Life Sciences Operations Director (LSOD), you'll lead with purpose-driving operational excellence, compliance, and growth across our life sciences vertically. Each day brings opportunities to shape strategic initiatives, streamline processes, and ensure operational readiness at both regional and national levels. You'll collaborate with cross-functional leaders, optimize performance, and champion the systems and structures that empower teams to deliver exceptional results in a highly regulated and rapidly evolving industry.
This role is more than leadership influence in action. You'll develop people, strengthen partnerships, and implement strategies that fuel sustained revenue growth, minimize risk, and elevate service quality. If you're passionate about transforming vision into measurable impact and guiding teams toward operational excellence, this is your opportunity to make a lasting mark on the future of life sciences.
Responsibilities:
- Lead and implement life sciences processes and compliance standards across regional and national operations
- Mitigate company risk through the enforcement of safety, documentation, and training protocols
- Oversee life sciences projects to ensure alignment with scope, service, and operational excellence
- Conduct site visits and strategy calls to support business continuity and complex project execution
- Develop accurate, scope-driven estimates leveraging commercial construction and environmental expertise
- Ensure readiness of life sciences equipment, consumables, and assessment tools
- Identify growth opportunities, coordinate readiness efforts, and support market and account expansion
- Partner with sales and operations on proposals, RFPs, and documentation development
- Drive continuous improvement through peer reviews, audits, and leadership feedback
- Apply validation and sterility assurance solutions (e.g., BI) for Pharmaceutical and Medical Device industries
- Utilize CRM systems such as Salesforce to manage data and enhance communication
- Ability to travel 20-50% nationally, including disaster recovery or high-impact loss sites
Experience & Education:
- 5 years of experience in operational leadership, ideally within life sciences, healthcare, environmental services, or restoration
- Background in life sciences restoration procedures
- Bachelor's degree or relevant years of work experience
- Valid driver's license required
First Onsite provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.
First Onsite (and its Companies) participates in E-Verify. We will provide the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employer's Form I-9 to confirm work authorization.
This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
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Subject to Federal, State and Local laws, regulations and/or ordinances, applicant must be able to pass Background Check and Pre-employment Drug Screen.