Contractor, Loading Dock Associate
Lila SciencesCambridge, Massachusetts, United States · Posted 1 month agoDescription
Your Impact at LILA
Lila Sciences is opening a Loading Dock Associate (Contract) role to support day-to-day dock operations at our AP5 campus. As the company expands lab capacity across multiple buildings, the volume of incoming reagents, equipment, lab consumables, and capital deliveries has grown significantly, and lab teams depend on reliable, well-communicated dock operations to keep experiments on schedule.
The Loading Dock Associate is a hands-on role focused on receiving inbound shipments, inspecting and routing deliveries, keeping the dock clean and organized, and communicating delivery arrivals to lab and operations teams. The role works under the direction of Facilities Management and alongside Lab Operations and EH&S.
This is a contract position, 40 hours per week, based onsite at Alewife AP5. It is ideal for someone who takes pride in operational details, communicates clearly, and enjoys working in a fast-moving environment alongside scientific and engineering teams.
What You'll Be Building
- Receive and log inbound deliveries at the AP5 dock
- Inspect shipments for damage and verify quantities against packing slips
- Route incoming shipments to lab teams, offices, and storage areas as directed
- Notify lab and operations teams when their deliveries arrive
- Keep packing slips and invoices organized and submit for record-keeping
- Maintain a clean, organized, and safe dock area in line with EH&S standards
- Assist with scheduled or oversized deliveries alongside Facilities staff
- Track and report metrics on inbound package volume for Facilities and Lab Ops
- Escalate discrepancies and delivery issues to the dock manager or Facilities lead
What You'll Need to Succeed
- 1–2 years in shipping, receiving, or warehouse operations
- Ability to safely operate a pallet jack
- Ability to lift a minimum of 50 pounds and perform sustained physical activity on the dock floor
- Working knowledge of safe material handling and dock equipment
- Clear communicator, able to relay delivery updates to onsite teams
- Proficient in Microsoft Excel and Word
- Comfort using basic tracking systems and spreadsheets
- Ability to work onsite at Alewife AP5, 40 hours per week, during standard receiving hours
Bonus Points For
- Prior experience in a life sciences, biotech, or pharma receiving environment
- Familiarity with handling temperature-sensitive or hazardous shipments (cold chain, dry ice, chemicals)
- IATA or DOT certification for handling hazardous materials shipments
- Forklift certification or willingness to obtain one
- Comfort working in a fast-moving, growth-stage company
About LILA
Lila Sciences is building Scientific Superintelligence™ to solve humankind's greatest challenges. We believe science is the most inspiring frontier for AI. Rather than hard-coding expert knowledge into tools, LILA builds systems that can learn for themselves.
LILA combines advanced AI models with proprietary AI Science Factory™ instruments into an operating system for science that executes the entire scientific method autonomously, accelerating discovery at unprecedented speed, scale, and impact across medicine, materials, and energy. Learn more at www.lila.ai.
Guided by our core values of truth, trust, curiosity, grit, and velocity, we move with startup speed while tackling problems of historic importance. If this sounds like an environment you'd love to work in, even if you don't meet every qualification listed above, we encourage you to apply.
We’re All In
Lila Sciences is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.
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A Note to Agencies
Lila Sciences does not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than candidates. The submission of unsolicited resumes by recruitment or staffing agencies to Lila Sciences or its employees is strictly prohibited unless contacted directly by Lila Science’s internal Talent Acquisition team. Any resume submitted by an agency in the absence of a signed agreement will automatically become the property of Lila Sciences, and Lila Sciences will not owe any referral or other fees with respect thereto.
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