# Lab Manager

**Company**: Ford Motor Company
**Location**: Long Beach, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $81,800-$159,400
**Category**: Facilities & Maintenance
**Industry**: Automotive
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294

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## Description

At Ford Motor Company, we are seeking a Lab Manager to support the ongoing management of laboratory and R&D facilities critical to our Advanced EV Development efforts.

The Lab Manager will be responsible for managing day-to-day lab operations, including equipment, supplies, safety, and general maintenance. The ideal candidate will be a highly organized and versatile individual comfortable transitioning between planning/coordination and hands-on tasks.

## Responsibilities

- Manage day-to-day lab and operational space activities, including inspections, overseeing cleanliness/organization, and managing ongoing facilities requests and work orders.

- Oversee ordering, restocking, and organization of general lab supplies and consumables.

- Coordinate lab equipment maintenance, calibration, and repair.

- Manage laboratory safety protocols, including waste disposal, inspections, and training in line with Ford EH&S standards.

- Maintain high levels of organization for physical spaces and digital documentation.

- Assist in planning and scheduling lab modifications and upgrades, managing space readiness, equipment delivery, and installation timelines.

- Coordinate with equipment vendors to obtain technical details and installation requirements; manage logistics for receiving and placing equipment and furniture.

- Manage incoming infrastructure and facilities requests using tracking systems such as JIRA.

- Coordinate with external construction teams (Architects, Engineers, Contractors) and internal teams (R&D, Engineering, Operations) to support facility buildout planning, capture space and equipment needs, and facilitate plan execution.

- Communicate effectively with diverse internal and external stakeholders.

## Qualifications

- 2 years of experience in a laboratory, R&D, or technical operations environment.

- Experience supporting facility projects, lab operations, or technical workspaces.

- Proven ability to coordinate tasks and communicate effectively with multiple stakeholders, including internal teams and external vendors/contractors.

- Demonstrated organizational skills, both physical and digital.

- Experience using tracking systems for tasks or requests (e.g., JIRA, Asana, etc.).

- A strong willingness and aptitude for hands-on work across a variety of tasks.

- Familiarity with basic laboratory safety practices.

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

## Benefits

- Immediate medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage

- Paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more

- Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments and more

- Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases

- Tuition assistance

- Established and active employee resource groups

- Paid time off for individual and team community service

- Generous vacation time, sick/personal time, and paid holidays, including between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Day

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## Skills

### Required
- laboratory management
- facility management
- safety protocols
- equipment maintenance
- communication

### Nice to have
- EH&S standards
- mechanical work
- vehicle maintenance
- machining
- fabrication
- Architects
- Engineers
- General Contractors

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