Sr. Calibration Technician / Team Lead

Transcat • Irvine, CA

6d • Hybrid

About The Position

Transcat is a leading calibration and compliance services provider in North America and beyond. With over 1,000 employees, we deliver on our Trust in Every Measure promise to customers in vital industries such as life sciences, aerospace, defense, energy, and utilities. We offer work that matters, a values-based culture, flexibility, training and development, competitive compensation, and benefits. The Senior Calibration Technician is the highest-level technician position, requiring a minimum of six years of commercial calibration experience. This role involves calibrating, troubleshooting, and adjusting higher-level equipment across multiple disciplines, with expert knowledge in at least three. Senior Calibration Technicians work independently in labs or at customer sites. As a Team Lead, this position is a strategic member of the lab management team, on a career path to leadership, and requires strong interpersonal skills to manage and lead others. CCT or CMT certification is desired.

Requirements

• Successful completion of assigned training materials through on-the-job training, online content, LMS, and classroom led instruction
• Elite interpersonal and customer service skills
• Strong management skills and leadership potential
• Excellent attention to detail
• Self-motivated learner with the ability to learn new skills related to calibration and calibration processes
• Ability to take direction and learn from feedback
• Ability to communicate well with supervisor, solve problems effectively, and work both independently and as part of a team
• 3+ years driving experience with a valid driver’s license
• Associates degree from college or technical school, or 6+ years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Experience working within ISO 17025 and exposure responding to assessment bodies in the ISO 17025 accreditation.
• Advanced understanding of creating, maintaining, and editing uncertainty budgets.

Nice To Haves

• Minimum of six (6) years commercial calibration experience preferred
• Expert knowledge in three (3) disciplines (e.g., Electrical, Dimensional, or Pressure)
• Proficiency and expertise determined in accordance with Transcat’s technician skills progression matrix
• CCT or CMT certification is desired
• Work effectively with lab support staff
• Working knowledge and competency in eight (8) disciplines and expert in three (3) disciplines preferred
• Six+ (6+) years of commercial calibration experience
• CCT or CMT certification
• Extensive statistical background
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office computer software including Word, Excel, and Outlook
• Advanced organizational and time management skills
• Completion of appropriate leadership or management coursework
• Experience in PMEL, PME, TMDE, Metrology, Calibration, ASQ CCT, METCAL, GPETE, Electronics, GCAMS, or Avionics

Responsibilities

• Perform calibration work with little to no supervision
• Train, advise, and lead lower-level technicians
• Assist in production management, training, automation and leadership of key processes within the lab
• Partner with lab management on process improvement and strategic initiatives
• Conduct independent research when necessary
• Coordinate and manage daily workloads without direction from manager
• Identify and utilize appropriate measurement techniques
• Maintain calibration standards
• Understand and apply uncertainties to measurements made
• Be able to read and interpret labs’ scopes of accreditation
• Work effectively with lab support staff
• Perform calibrations within a laboratory or customer onsite setting
• Work at customer on-sites with little to no direction
• Fulfill duties safely under working conditions, in keeping with Company requirements and standards
• Call upon high-level skills, techniques, and processes to calibrate, troubleshoot, and adjust a high volume of high-level equipment with few errors
• Coordinate work schedule for the lab
• Prepare detailed analysis of calibration processes and uncertainties
• Develop and implement process improvements
• Develop lower-level technicians
• Deliver on Transcat’s Quality Policy (QAC-F01-001)
• Demonstrate team lead skills and responsibilities
• Develop skills necessary to advance in leadership roles in Transcat

Benefits

• paid time off
• health insurance
• tuition reimbursement
• retirement
• stock purchase plan

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree