Senior Mechanical Lab Technician – Medical Devices

Planet Pharma; Boxborough (MA); On-site; USD 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Planet Pharma is seeking a Mechanical Technician to support medical product development for image-guided surgery in a lab environment. You will independently build, assemble, troubleshoot, test, and repair complex mechanical and electromechanical systems from prototype through production readiness.

You will collaborate with Mechanical Engineers, Manufacturing, Quality, and Service to bring projects from concept to verified, production-ready hardware while maintaining thorough documentation and

Qualifications

• Must read mechanical drawings and understand tolerances.
• Able to work on machines, prototypes, test setups, and production hardware.
• Capable of independent lab work while collaborating with engineers.
• Familiar with motion systems, bearings, ball screws, belts, servo and stepper motors.
• High school diploma or equivalent with 4+ years of hands-on technical experience.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office and electronic documentation within IT systems.
• Strong hands-on experience assembling, troubleshooting, and evaluating complex electromechanical systems.

Responsibilities

• Perform hands-on assembly, build, troubleshooting, and evaluation of complex mechanical and electromechanical systems.
• Work directly on large capital equipment, prototype hardware, machines, production-level hardware, and test setups.
• Support system bring-up, debugging, testing, validation, and verification activities per Quality System requirements.
• Inspect parts and assemblies, interpret drawings, apply GD&T and tolerance principles during assembly and troubleshooting.
• Troubleshoot system-level mechanical and electromechanical issues; perform root-cause analysis and support corrective actions.
• Repair, preventive maintenance, refurbishment, and modification of existing machines and equipment.
• Maintain documentation of configurations, issues, changes, repairs, maintenance, and test results.
• Create/update work instructions, BOMs, qualification reports, ECO-related docs, and FMEA inputs.
• Fabricate/modify simple parts and fixtures to support development activities.
• Collaborate with Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Service, Test, and cross-functional teams.

Skills

Read drawings

Interpret tolerances

Assemble & troubleshoot

Lab prototype hardware

Motion & drive systems

Independent lab work

MS Office proficiency

Strong hands-on experience

Team collaboration

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Tools

SolidWorks

Agile PLM

Job description

Planet Pharma is seeking a Mechanical Technician to support medical product development for image-guided surgery in a lab environment. You will independently build, assemble, troubleshoot, test, and repair complex mechanical and electromechanical systems from prototype through production readiness.

You will collaborate with Mechanical Engineers, Manufacturing, Quality, and Service to bring projects from concept to verified, production-ready hardware while maintaining thorough documentation and