Associate Lab Support Engineer
About The Position
Join Thermo Fisher Scientific as an Associate Lab Support Engineer and contribute to meaningful work that makes a positive impact globally. Our mission is to enable customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. We provide the resources for individual career goals while advancing science through research, development, and delivery of life-changing therapies. With clinical trials in over 100 countries and innovative frameworks for clinical research through our PPD clinical research portfolio, our work encompasses laboratory, digital, and decentralized clinical trial services. Your dedication to quality and accuracy will enhance health outcomes for people and communities. Our PPD® Laboratory Services team directly impacts patient health through the expertise of scientists, industry thought-leaders, and therapeutic experts. As a global leader in serving science, our laboratory professionals are committed to accuracy and quality, driving groundbreaking innovations. The Associate Lab Support Engineer is responsible for system analysis of new laboratory instrumentation and maintenance of existing instrumentation. This role assists in the validation and qualification of laboratory instrumentation, troubleshoots and repairs existing laboratory equipment, and interacts with vendors for repair and maintenance of analytical instrumentation. The position supports laboratory personnel in meeting sponsor timelines for analytical results.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification
- Previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 5-8 years).
- Working knowledge and understanding of laboratory equipment and foundations of troubleshooting
- Knowledge of mass spectrometry, liquid chromatography, relational databases, and other analytical instrumentation operation
- Working knowledge with systems in use at PPD or within the CRO/Pharmaceutical industry
- Client focused approach with strong interpersonal skills
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Ability to communicate effective with vendors, clients and all levels of staff
- Attention to detail and ability to multi-task
- Ability to train others
- Ability to work in a collaborative team environment.
- Frequently stationary for 6-8 hours per day.
- Repetitive hand movement of both hands with the ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists.
- Frequent mobility required.
- Occasional crouching, stooping, bending and twisting of upper body and neck.
- Light to moderate lifting and carrying (or otherwise moves) objects including luggage and laptop computer with a maximum lift of 15-20 lbs.
- Ability to access and use a variety of computer software developed both in-house and off-the-shelf.
- Ability to communicate information and ideas so others will understand; with the ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
- Frequently interacts with others to obtain or relate information to diverse groups.
- Works independently with little guidance or reliance on oral or written instructions and plans work schedules to meet goals. Requires multiple periods of intense concentration.
- Performs a wide range of variable tasks as dictated by variable demands and changing conditions with little predictability as to the occurrence. Ability to perform under stress. Ability to multi-task.
- Regular and consistent attendance.
Nice To Haves
- In some cases an equivalency, consisting of a combination of appropriate education, training and/or directly related experience, will be considered sufficient for an individual to meet the requirements of the role.
Responsibilities
- Perform Performance Qualification (PQ) and repair on deployed Liquid Chromatography instrumentation.
- Coordinate with Operations staff on deployment of instrumentation.
- Perform unit system testing to include IQ (Installation Qualification), OQ (Operation Qualification) and calibration; Perform validation testing as needed.
- Assist in developing Standard Operating Procedures and testing procedures for emerging technologies and performance qualification (PQ) regiments for existing technologies.
- Assist in the installation of new instrumentation.
- Provide basic operator training to end-users on analytical instrumentation.
- Evaluate lab support records for compliance with SOPs, review for completeness and accuracy and reports findings.
Benefits
- A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs
- Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement
- At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy
- Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan
- Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
