Scientific Staffing Solutions to Drive Progress
Expand your capacity with our qualified scientific experts who are committed to moving your project forward. Our insourcing services keep your lab running smoothly by curating scientific staffing solutions that meet your business needs and workflow requirements. From individual placements to a robust team, our staffing models are tailored to allow your in-house team to focus on core business while delegating routine scientific functions to ours.
Supporting Optimal Operations & Compliance
Laboratory Staffing
Support Your Science
We go beyond scientific recruitment to hand-pick an elite team for your project, manage their day-to-day activities, and continually support your science. By providing ongoing assistance, our services help overcome turnover constraints, resolve workload backlogs, ensure quality assurance, and recruit qualified talent to meet pivotal milestones.
Performance & Management
We are more than a staffing agency. Our performance and management reports provide oversight and control without additional work from your team. By partnering with us, the responsibility of managing budget, time, and workflows shifts off your plate so you can get back to more pressing responsibilities.
Download Focused on the Future
As a Lab Manager, you’re the driving force behind innovation, ensuring that critical research moves forward—even when challenges arise. But in an era of shifting priorities, tight budgets, and workforce disruptions, how do you keep your lab operating at peak efficiency?
Those who adapt, streamline staffing, and embrace future-focused strategies will lead the charge. By learning from industry insights and leveraging creative solutions, you can build a lab that doesn’t just survive uncertainty—it thrives in it.
Scientific Insourcing FAQ
What is scientific insourcing?
Scientific insourcing is a workforce model in which an external scientific team works within your facility while the service provider manages the personnel and defined laboratory responsibilities. Unlike a conventional staffing placement, the model can include recruiting, onboarding, training, work direction, performance management, and ongoing program oversight.
How is scientific insourcing different from a temporary staffing agency?
Temporary staffing generally focuses on filling an individual role for a limited period. Scientific insourcing can extend beyond placement by providing dedicated scientific personnel together with the management, training, performance oversight, and operational structure needed to support defined laboratory functions.
How can I support my laboratory without adding headcount?
Hiring freezes and FTE restrictions don’t have to mean reduced laboratory output. Scientific insourcing provides additional capacity through external scientific teams that can support defined functions or routine workloads, helping your laboratory maintain productivity and keep critical work moving without adding permanent headcount.
Can scientific insourcing help with a laboratory backlog or sudden increase in workload?
Yes. Additional scientific personnel can take responsibility for defined routine work when laboratories encounter testing backlogs, project surges, or capacity constraints. This approach can free experienced internal scientists to concentrate on higher-complexity activities.
Can an insourcing program scale from one scientist to an entire laboratory team?
Yes. An insourcing program can be structured around a single team member, a larger group, or broader laboratory operations depending on the organization’s requirements. The model offered by Pace® is customizable and scalable, with the ability to support staffing needs ranging from an individual resource to a full laboratory function.
Who manages an insourced laboratory team?
When working with Pace®, program management remains with us rather than becoming an additional responsibility for your internal team. Programs can include on-site personnel management, customized technical training, deliverable tracking, performance reviews, workload planning, metrics, and reporting.
What techniques and testing methods can you help me with in my lab?
HPLC, UPLC, LC, GC, Mass Spec, GC-MS, Instron, MTS, DMA, TMA, Load Frame, Adhesive Testing, Infrared Spectroscopy, FTIR, ddPCR, qPCR, PCR, ELISA, Microscopy, XRF, ICP-MS, ICP-AES, AFM, Confocal Microscopy, Western Blot, Mammalian Cell Culture, NMR, Adhesion/Force testing, DIC, DSC, TGA, Pipetting
What laboratory functions can be delegated through scientific insourcing?
Organizations can use insourcing for direct laboratory activities as well as supporting functions such as data review, report review, materials ordering, laboratory stocking, instrument maintenance, GMP support, quality and compliance activities, project support, and laboratory administration.
When should a laboratory consider scientific insourcing instead of hiring?
Insourcing may be useful when a laboratory needs additional capacity but faces headcount constraints, changing workloads, specialized talent requirements, project surges, or a need to shift routine work away from experienced, internal scientists. Rather than addressing only recruitment, the insourcing model can also transfer defined management and operational responsibilities to Pace®.