Sr. Metrology Professional - Lab Equipment Maintenance
Mattawan, MI, US, 49071
For 75 years, Charles River employees have worked together to assist in the discovery, development and safe manufacture of new drug therapies. When you join our family, you will have a significant impact on the health and well-being of people across the globe. Whether your background is in life sciences, finance, IT, sales or another area, your skills will play an important role in the work we perform. In return, we’ll help you build a career that you can feel passionate about.
Job Summary
We are seeking an Sr. Metrology Professional for our Lab Equipment Maintenance group in our Metrology department at our Mattawan, MI location.
The Sr. Metrology Professional is responsible for the installation, maintenance, calibration, and repair of instrumentation and controls systems supporting all functions within in assigned facilities. Supports equipment through reliability maintenance practices and implementation of project related instrumentation and controls hardware.
The pay range for this position is $95,000-$110,000/year USD. Please note that salaries vary within the range based on factors including, but not limited to, experience, skills, education, certifications, and location.
Essential Functions
- Applies combination of chemistry and electronics experience to ensure that laboratory instrumentation and controls systems used in assigned facilities are properly maintained, installed, programmed, and calibrated to perform design function. This includes periodic assessment of field device calibration frequencies, and addressing out of tolerance (OOT), assessing instrument performance for replacement/upgrade.
- Perform PM and Repair on analytical instrumentation such as: High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC), Gas Chromatography (GC), Mass Spectrometry (MS), Ultra-Violet Visible Spectroscopy (UV-Vis), including other types of analytical laboratory instrumentation.
- Perform PM and Repair on general lab instrumentation including but not limited to balances, centrifuges, incubators, microtomes, mixers, plate washers, pumps etc.
- Perform PM and Repair on biomedical instrumentation including but not limited to aspirators, anesthesia machine, warming units, defibrillator, electrocautery, patient monitoring devices etc.
- Assists Metrology in development of functional specifications for supported equipment. Acts as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) on various calibration procedures and SOPs including training and qualifying calibration technicians. Must effectively communicate, document, and schedule all work activities including activities by third party contractors.
- Responsible for maintaining instrumentation and controls equipment in a validated environment including all GxP areas. Assures that instrumentation and controls are of appropriate calibration designation and that red tagged and status coded instrumentation are addressed and repaired within allowable time constraints. Must effectively communicate the status of job activities to management and applicable production support personnel.
- Track and document all work to support laboratory instrumentation in CMMS. Perform data review of internal as well as external documents generated in support of instrument calibration, maintenance, and repair.
- Other responsibilities and duties as assigned by local management.
Job Qualifications
- Associate degree in electronics technology, chemistry or equivalent, preferred. Minimum of 5 years experience as a Senior Instrument Technician, Journeyman, or the equivalent.
- Certification in Metrology, instrumentation, or calibration through an accredited institution (i.e. Military, Apprenticeship program, ASQ CCT, etc.) and equivalent combination of experience and education may be accepted as a satisfactory substitute for specific education and experience listed above.
- Experience with LC/MS service and repair preferred.
- Must manage activities to meet restrictive timelines. Must have skills in working with people, with good written and verbal communication skills.
- knowledge of CMMS systems, validated systems, applicable engineering standards and an ability to work with facility specific software applications is critical to the job function.
- Ability to work extended hours beyond normal work schedule to include evenings, weekends, sometimes on short notice.
- Regional Travel up to 10%
- Ability to work within and promote a team environment.
About Safety Assessment
Charles River is committed to helping our partners expedite their preclinical drug development with exceptional safety assessment services, state-of-the-art facilities and expert regulatory guidance. From individual specialty toxicology and IND enabling studies to tailored packages and total laboratory support, our deeply experienced team can design and execute programs that anticipate challenges and avoid roadblocks for a smooth, efficient journey to market. Each year approximately 300 investigational new drug (IND) programs are conducted in our Safety Assessment facilities.
About Charles River
Charles River is an early-stage contract research organization (CRO). We have built upon our foundation of laboratory animal medicine and science to develop a diverse portfolio of discovery and safety assessment services, both Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) and non-GLP, to support clients from target identification through preclinical development. Charles River also provides a suite of products and services to support our clients’ clinical laboratory testing needs and manufacturing activities. Utilizing this broad portfolio of products and services enables our clients to create a more flexible drug development model, which reduces their costs, enhances their productivity and effectiveness to increase speed to market.
With over 20,000 employees within 110 facilities in over 20 countries around the globe, we are strategically positioned to coordinate worldwide resources and apply multidisciplinary perspectives in resolving our client’s unique challenges. Our client base includes global pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology companies, government agencies and hospitals and academic institutions around the world.
At Charles River, we are passionate about our role in improving the quality of people’s lives. Our mission, our excellent science and our strong sense of purpose guide us in all that we do, and we approach each day with the knowledge that our work helps to improve the health and well-being of many across the globe. We have proudly worked on 80% of the drugs approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the past five years.
We’re committed to providing benefits that elevate your quality of life. Based on your position these may include: bonus/incentives based on performance, 401K, paid time off, stock purchase program, Health and wellness coverage, employee and family wellbeing support programs, and work life balance flexibility.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Charles River Laboratories is an Equal Opportunity Employer - all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.
It is unlawful in some states (including Massachusetts) to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
If you are interested in applying to Charles River Laboratories and need special assistance or an accommodation due to a disability to complete any forms or to otherwise participate in the resume submission process, please contact a member of our Human Resources team by sending an e-mail message to crrecruitment_US@crl.com. This contact is for accommodation requests for individuals with disabilities only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.
For more information, please visit www.criver.com.
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