** Position Description**
**Inventory Control Specialist (Cryogenics) - Santa Monica, CA** Location **Los Angeles, CA** We are currently seeking an ***Inventory Control Specialist (Cryogenics)*** to join our California Cryobank team in Los Angeles, California
***Join us in our mission to create, protect, and advance the care of healthy women, babies, and families!***
**Position Summary:** Provide our internal customers with technical expertise while maintaining the highest quality services possible.
**Work Model**: This position will be required to work onsite
**Essential Duties and Responsibilities**:
* Handling medical specimens at appropriate cryogenic temperatures throughout the specimen lifetime cycle while adhering to universal precautions with regard to biological specimens.
* Specimen inventory management to include transfer initiation from the production facility as well as receipt, storage, and distribution to/from the Generate Life Sciences centralized Biorepository.
* Specimen inventory tracking using database management solutions to ensure accurate inventory and traceability.
* Specimen logistics and solutions - Processes shipping requests to include packaging specimens, generating shipping documents/labels, coordinating with shipping couriers, and troubleshooting delivery problems.
* Performs quality control tasks associated with specimen management and cryogenic equipment.
* Monitors & Maintains cryogenic storage equipment and environmental monitoring system.
* Maintains demonstrated proficiency with all applicable Standard Operating Procedures.
* Assists with generating various reports and record keeping.
* Other duties and projects as required.
**Education and/or Experience**:
* Associate's Degree minimum, Bachelors Degree preferred, and one to two years related experience and/or training.
* Experience in medical specimen handling management; a plus
**Computer Skills**:
* Knowledge of MS Office (Word & Excel) required; knowledge of database programs (e.g., MS Access) preferred.
**Other Qualifications**:
* Excellent customer service skills
* High level of interpersonal skills to interact with peers and management
* Strong attention to detail
* Excellent organizational skills
* Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously
* Ability to maintain confidentiality
* Training in the handling of liquid nitrogen.
* The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 30 pounds.
**Please Note**: *As a Life Sciences company, we are dedicated to protecting the health and safety of not only our clients and communities, but our employees as well. As such, all new employees must be fully Covid-19 vaccinated by their date of hire.*
**Generate Life Sciences** was recently purchased by ***CooperSurgical***, a market leader in the development, production, and marketing of medical devices used to advance women's health care and minimally invasive surgery. Integration plans have begun to unite Generate and our brands into the CooperSurgical family, so that we may all continue to advance the care of healthy women, babies, and families.
***CooperSurgical*** is a leader in manufacturing and marketing multiple trusted and innovative brands that assist clinicians in improving the health of women, babies and families worldwide. Through an aggressive growth and diversification strategy, CooperSurgical has evolved its portfolio of over 600 products to include products and services used primarily by obstetricians and gynecologists in surgical and medical procedures wherever they occur: in hospitals, surgical centers, medical offices and fertility clinics.
*We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.*
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