Orca Bio is helping to deliver the promise of cell therapy to patients without compromise. Backed by Lightspeed and Felicis.
About the role
• Provide live tracking of courier flights throughout active runs. • Serve as the point person for monitoring incoming weather systems for the upcoming week or so, flagging potential impacts early and planning effectively to keep runs on schedule, in addition to tracking real-time weather and emergency events that may affect active transport.
What they're looking for
- • Bachelor's degree and 2–3 years of relevant logistics experience required. B.S. in biology, life sciences, or logistics preferred
- • Proven success in logistics coordination, preferably in a regulated environment
- • Familiarity with handling biological materials and associated transportation regulations is a plus
- • Proficiency in logistics tracking systems or software required
- • Logistics or courier coordination in fast-paced, time-sensitive industries (e.g., healthcare, biotech, or medical transport)
- • Working with regulated materials, such as biological specimens or pharmaceuticals, with knowledge of chain-of-custody, IATA, or DOT compliance
More about this role
More than one million people in the United States today are fighting blood cancer. While a traditional allogeneic stem cell transplant has been the best hope for many, the transplant itself can prove fatal or lead to serious conditions, such as graft vs. host disease. Orca Bio is a commercial-stage biotechnology company redefining the transplant process by developing next-generation cell therapies with the goal of providing significantly better survival rates with dramatically fewer risks. With our purified, high-precision cell therapies we hope to not only replace patients' blood and immune systems with healthy ones, but also restore their lives.
We have built a state-of-the-art, 100,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Sacramento, CA (7910 Metro Air Pkwy) to ensure the consistent and reliable delivery of our high-precision cell therapy products. This site is essential to advancing our clinical pipeline and supporting future commercial availability of our life-saving therapies.
The Specialist, Logistics ensures the secure and timely transport of donor cells and drug products between Orca Bio's manufacturing sites and transplant centers. This role owns real-time coordination...
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