Equipment Technician

Ossium Health•Indianapolis, IN

13h•Onsite

About The Position

Ossium's mission is to improve the health, vitality, and longevity of human beings through bioengineering. We develop, manufacture, and bank cell therapy products that apply the power of stem cell science to revolutionize treatment for patients with blood, immune, and orthopedic diseases. At Ossium, we empower our employees, maintain the highest standards of operational excellence, and are a force for good. We’re hiring an Equipment Technician who will focus on critical equipment to ensure that our clinical production team has everything they need to process and bank life-saving bone marrow. In this role, you’ll be responsible for a variety of facility and equipment cleaning, maintenance, installation, operation, and troubleshooting to keep operations running smoothly in our cGMP (current Good Manufacturing Practice) facility. This is a hands-on role, and we’ll train you on Good Documentation Practices, preparing tools for sterilization, and other support tasks which are key for a biotech manufacturing facility. Restocking materials and reagents as well as cleaning equipment/tools and autoclaving may also be a part of your daily routine. This role reports to the Facilities Manager, and will work closely with both the Facilities team and the Clinical Production team.

Requirements

High School Diploma
Ability to solve technical and performance problems using information from a variety of sources
Excellent written and oral communication skills
Capability to operate with a high level of organization and excellent time management in a dynamic startup environment

Nice To Haves

Experience working hands-on with laboratory/clinical equipment

Responsibilities

Perform scheduled maintenance inspections and assurance inspections on equipment to ensure safe and effective operating conditions
Assist with qualification of new equipment
Test and calibrate components using a variety of manuals, troubleshooting techniques, and code requirements
Perform routine preventative maintenance and calibrations of equipment
Assist with cleaning, calibration, and maintenance of quality control, production, and research lab equipment, including non-routine maintenance and scheduling service or calibration with outside vendors as needed
Assist in repair and replacement of complex medical equipment and systems
Install and test a variety of medical and research equipment
Diagnose equipment malfunctions with accuracy
Perform activities in accordance with current GDP and cGMP
Recognize and communicate production and work environment issues/observations to supervisory staff in a timely manner
Training on gowning and cleaning practices for the cleanroom support areas
Shadowing Clinical Production personnel and observe processing
Assisting Clinical Production team in developing improved tool cleaning procedures
Learning the basics of safety, sterility, and the general flow of our methods and operations
Understanding our freezers (-80° & -190°) and how they operate, fill and alarm
Gaining familiarity with switching out Co2 and LN2 tanks