What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lab IT Infrastructure Spec position at Bayer?
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Lab IT Infrastructure Spec
YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
The primary responsibilities of this role, Lab IT Infrastructure Specialist, are to:
- Utilizes specific technical knowledge to plan, organize, and document procedures for projects supporting IT systems for laboratory instruments.
- Works with partners to ensure IT systems, including databases, LIMS, equipment, automation, and associated PCs are functioning appropriately to deliver the Plant Biotech pipeline.
- Interface with IT infrastructure teams regarding lab IT needs on behalf of scientists and R&D personnel.
- Works to define root cause analysis to prevent future system failures.
- Ensures instrumentation remains operational and is not impacted by IT updates or other potential disruptors.
- Partners to successfully bring new equipment online, including automation, sequencers, etc.
- Works to ensure teams have adequate connectivity behind firewalls to upload data.
- Responsible for troubleshooting at multiple sites across Plant Biotechnology, including Chesterfield, Ankeny, Singapore, Petrolina, Bangalore.
- Ensure compliance to standards.
- Demonstrate excellent communication with all stakeholders, both local and global, along with consistent, reliable delivery of solutions.
- Develop work plans, schedules, status reports, risk analysis, and monitor the progress of plans against project milestones.
- Analyzing and documenting requirements by liaising with a range of users in the organization.
- Provide end user support, troubleshooting, issue tracking and software documentation for R&D hardware, software and infrastructure with Enterprise IT teams.
- Work closely with researchers to support GLP related activities, validation requirements, and maintain GLP-related documentation
WHO YOU ARE
Bayer seeks an incumbent who possesses the following:
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree
- Excellent troubleshooting skills related to maintaining PCs connected to laboratory instruments.
- Demonstrated ability to set up and manage networks, or as a system administrator.
- Applies state-of-the-art domain expertise to solve lab IT infrastructure issues
- Experience with application database (SQL, Oracle) and related R&D software.
- Interacts routinely with laboratory teams to solve problems and identify areas of improvement.
- Able to communicate effectively to convey complex ideas in a clear, precise, and actionable manner to diverse teams within and across organizations.
- Aligns personal activities to team and organization goals.
Preferred Qualifications:
- MS in computer science or related degree
- 3 years- 5 years of relevant experience.
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