Instrumentation Specialist

About the role

Oversees all aspects of the laboratory instrumentation in the chemistry laboratory Assists with additional work duties or responsibilities as evident or required. Performs other duties as assigned or apparent. Relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. Performs a variety of complicated tasks under general supervision for which creativity is expected and latitude is given.

Responsibilities

• Plans, organizes, and manages preventative maintenance of laboratory equipment
• Creates or modifies SOP’s, forms, logbooks, etc. as necessary to facilitate the instrumentation program.
• Ensures that supplies are on hand to perform routine instrument maintenance and that supplies for non-routine maintenance or troubleshooting are ordered promptly as needed.
• Focuses on cost savings and value delivery, ensuring that instrument maintenance is of higher quality and lower cost than vendor maintenance contracts.

Skills

• Experience with cGMP documentation systems and with implementation of quality systems.
• Strong knowledge of FDA, USP, and industry requirements for analytical instrumentation qualification and maintenance
• Strong project management skills and able to provide technical support and direction with compliance to standards in order to meet business initiatives.
• Direct experience with maintaining HPLC, GC, and other common laboratory instrumentation.
• Strong IT skills and a strong understanding of hardware and software troubleshooting of laboratory instrumentation.
• Detail oriented and excellent organizational skills.
• Effective written and oral communication skills and able to handle multiple projects within limited time frames.
• Ability and willingness to change direction and focus to meet shifting organizational and business demands.
• Ability to effectively manage one self, demonstrates integrity, be productive under pressure, and achieve developmental goals.
• Ability to manage a multitude of resources and to be accurate and current with data and information.
• Ability to create new products and processes that add value to the Business, by generating new ideas and applying creative and analytical approaches.

Qualifications

• Minimum Bachelor’s degree or 7 years of experience working in Quality Control Chemistry and/or Research & Development.