Metrology Engineer

Eurofins Scientific; Lancashire; On-site; GBP 68,000 - 91,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive medical coverage

Dental and vision options

Life and disability insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid vacation and holidays

Job summary

Eurofins Scientific is seeking a senior instrumentation specialist to perform maintenance, calibration, and qualification of laboratory instrumentation in a regulated environment. You will drive advanced troubleshooting, implement validated routines, and provide guidance to technical staff to ensure quality systems remain compliant.

The role requires a bachelor’s degree in physical sciences, engineering, or IT and a minimum of eight years’ GxP, lab, and instrument maintenance experience, with

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required in physical sciences, engineering or IT.
• Minimum 8 years in GxP, lab, and/or instrument maintenance and repair.
• Experience documenting instrument troubleshooting and non-routine events.
• Experience developing instrument validation deliverables in a GXP environment.

Responsibilities

• Perform maintenance, calibration, and/or qualification of laboratory instrumentation per procedures and regulatory requirements.
• Maintain compliance of quality systems and instrumentation.
• Perform advanced troubleshooting and repair of laboratory instrumentation.
• Implement/validate routine instrumentation and assist with research/validation of advanced instrumentation.
• Provide oversight, guidance, and training to technical personnel.
• Maintain routine instruments in a validated state with preventative maintenance, testing and validation.
• Ensure activities are completed on time and in compliance with quality systems.

Skills

GxP laboratory maintenance

Instrument troubleshooting

Technical documentation

Validation deliverables

Team guidance/training

Education

Bachelor's degree in physical science, engineering, or information technology

Job description

• Perform maintenance, calibration, and/or qualification of routine and advanced laboratory instrumentation in accordance with established procedures and regulatory requirements.
• Maintain compliance of quality systems and laboratory instrumentation.
• Perform advanced troubleshooting and repair of laboratory instrumentation.
• Implement/validate routine instrumentation and assist with research/implementation/validation of advanced instrumentation.
• Provide oversight, guidance, and training to technical personnel.
• Maintain routine instruments in a validated state at all times. Perform assessment, trouble-shooting, repair. Ensure completion of preventative maintenance, routine testing, and assigned validation testing.
• Compliance - Ensure all activities are completed on time, accurately documented, and in compliance with existing quality systems. Ensure that the quality policy program is understood, implemented and maintained at all times.
• Productivity - Organize schedule in a manner such that higher priority projects and tasks are completed in a timely manner. Ensure completion of all assigned tasks according to company and department stated TAT's.
• Innovation - Active involvement with process improvement initiatives
• Teamwork - Foster teamwork internally and with technical groups to increase overall quality. Take responsibility for group success by assisting and supporting team members.
• Training - Provide guidance and coaching within a team environment
  Bachelor's degree in physical science, engineering, or information technology
• 8 years GxP, laboratory, and/or instrument maintenance and repair experience
• A combination of college and related technical experience will be considered (e.g. 12+ years experience)
• Experience performing and documenting instrument trouble shooting, non-routine events, and/or validations
• Experience writing technical documents (e.g. procedures, investigations)
• Experience developing instrument validation deliverables (e.g. protocols, test scripts) within a GXP environment
• Authorization to work in the United States indefinitely without restriction or sponsorship
  Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate.
• The Eurofins network of companies is the global leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and in agroscience Contract Research Organisation services. It is one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and in the support of clinical studies, as well as having an emerging global presence in Contract Development and Manufacturing Organisations. It also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialised and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products. In over 30 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to 58,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of 900 laboratories in over 54 countries. Eurofins companies offer a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products.
• Position is Full-time, Monday-Friday, 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., with overtime as needed. Candidates currently living within a commutable distance of Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
• Excellent full-time benefits including:
• Comprehensive medical coverage, dental, and vision options
• Life and disability insurance
• 401(k) with company match
• Paid vacation and holidays