Operations & Capacity Project Manager

Generare captures the genetic instructions microbes use to produce molecules, expresses them in the laboratory, and tests their biological activity. Doing this once is science. Doing it at scale, reliably, month after month, is what turns it into a platform.

We have raised 25 million to date and built a collection of 14,000 soil samples and 50,000 microbial strains from France. Our discovery engine has produced more than 500 novel scaffolds so far. Within eighteen months, we intend to be producing more than 1,000 a year.

That number is the reason this role exists. Reaching it means new laboratories, more equipment, and a clear view of where our capacity actually goes. Our laboratories and our production capacity will roughly double over the next two years.

We are hiring an Operations & Capacity Project Manager to lead that expansion and to build the instruments it depends on. You will run the laboratory extension project. You will also build the tools and models that tell us what we can produce, at what cost, and where our capacity should go next.

You will join the Operations department, within the Intelligence & Scale-up team, working closely with our production teams, our lab management and our department heads.

The role has two faces. One is project work: taking the needs expressed by the scientific teams and turning them into laboratories that open on time and within budget. The other is analytical: contributing to the process database, the capacity tracking and the projection models that make our production decisions something other than an informed guess.

You will work alongside our data and modelling team, who build and run the platforms this depends on: the process database, the capacity models and the indicator tooling. Your role is to make them say something about the laboratory, and to act on what they say.

You will work close enough to the laboratory floor to see where the constraints sit, and you will build the models that make them visible to everyone else.

This is a role for someone who wants to build the tools they use, not only to fill them in.

Laboratories that open on time

• Frame surface and equipment requirements with the department heads, and translate them into plans with our laboratory designer.

• Complete the commissioning of our new laboratories.

• Identify and visit candidate sites for our future full-capacity facility, and maintain the comparison.

• Prepare the site decision on cost, risk and timing, and present the recommendation to the executive committee.

• Plan and run the move: schedule, budget, coordination across teams, continuity of laboratory activity.

A clear view of what we can produce

• Keep our process database current and trustworthy across capacity, cycle times, yields and costs. The platform is built and maintained by our data team; what it contains, and whether it reflects what actually happens at the bench, is yours.

• Monitor available capacity against actual use, and anticipate equipment needs before they become constraints.

• Build the small, fast tools that answer an operational question in days rather than quarters: what a given instrument would buy us, what a capacity choice would cost, where a bottleneck is forming.

• Act as our reference point on COGs: build the costing, keep it current, and explain it to the executive team and to the laboratory alike.

• Manage the equipment base and the approval route for new requests, and keep the associated procedures up to date.

• Anticipate the equipment and space required by transfers from R&D into production.

Models that guide where capacity goes

• Work with our modelling team, who own the projection platforms, to turn them into operational answers: what throughput, by when, with what…