The Materials and Cold Chain Operations Supervisor is responsible for overseeing daily operations associated with material supply, material handling, cryogenic storage, and cold chain packaging and shipping of cell therapy drug products.
This role ensures that GMP-compliant handling, storage, packaging, and distribution of materials and drug products are performed safely, accurately, and in accordance with regulatory requirements, internal procedures, and chain-of-identity/chain-of-custody controls.
The supervisor leads a team of material handlers and cryogenic processing/packaging specialists, ensuring operational readiness, inventory control, and timely shipment of critical materials and patient-specific drug products.
Materials Supply:
Ensure materials and drug product shipments align with manufacturing schedules and patient treatment timelines.
Coordinate activities for supplying GMP material for manufacturing, laboratory and facility operations
Support receipt, inspection, storage, and distribution of GMP materials.
Ensure proper inventory control within ERP/MES/WMS systems.
Ensure accurate chain-of-identity (COI) and chain-of-custody (COC) controls for patient-specific materials and drug products.
Cold Chain Management:
Oversee cryogenic and cold chain storage systems, including LN2 freezers and associated monitoring systems.
Supervise drug product cryopreservation handling and storage workflows.
Ensure compliant pack-out and shipment of cold chain drug products using validated shippers.
Coordinate shipments with couriers and logistics partners.
Ensure accurate chain-of-identity (COI) and chain-of-custody (COC) controls for patient-specific materials and drug products.
Supervision:
Ensure operations comply with: GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices), GDP (Good Distribution Practices), GTP (Good Tissue Practices) where applicable and Internal SOPs and regulatory requirements
Support quality investigations, deviations, CAPAs, and change controls.
Ensure proper documentation, batch record completion, and data integrity.
Support internal and external regulatory inspections and audits.
Supervise and develop a direct reports
Promote a safety-first and quality-first culture.
Identify and implement process improvements in material flow, inventory control, and shipping operations.
5 years of experience in cell therapy, biologics, pharmaceutical manufacturing or warehouse / supply chain with 2 years of supervisory experience
Experience in material management and supply
Experience in cold chain operations including cryopreservation and cold chain shipments
Experience with Inventory management systems
Preferred experience with FDA and Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) knowledge
Preferred experience with chain of identity and chain of custody controls.
Strong understanding of good documentation practices and data integrity requirements.
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