Manufacturing Engineer I
Pay:$35.00-$41.00/hr
Location:
San Diego, CA — Onsite
Duration:
13-month contract
Schedule:
7:30/8:00 a.m. – 4:30/5:00 p.m.
Position Overview
Join the Equipment Engineering team to support a laboratory equipment project, including instrument onboarding, maintenance, calibration, troubleshooting, and installation in a GMP environment.
Responsibilities
- Onboard laboratory equipment and establish and execute maintenance plans. Familiarity with HPLC systems, synthesizers, and LC-MS instruments is highly encouraged.
- Apply standard laboratory practices within a GMP environment.
- Identify component-level failures in large instruments and clearly communicate findings to external customers.
- Plan, prioritize, coordinate, and execute multiple parallel activities, including equipment calibrations, preventive maintenance, supplier support, spare parts management, and project activities, with minimal guidance from a manager or lead.
- Source instruments and supporting components from OEM and non-OEM suppliers, tracking and reporting their status throughout onboarding. Experience with Ariba and SAP EAM is preferred.
- Collaborate with other engineers to develop and implement procedures that reduce or eliminate systematic equipment failures.
- Install new equipment or assist vendors with the installation of instruments and instrument components.
- Navigate SAP EAM to support equipment status tracking.
- Create standard operating procedures, work instructions, troubleshooting guides, and checklists.
- Take ownership of a subsystem or multiple components of a larger system with oversight.
- Safely handle hazardous chemicals.
Requirements
- Proficiency in automation maintenance, upkeep, repairs, calibration requirements, and validation protocols.
- Ability to communicate equipment user requirements to vendors, provide training to the equipment team, and develop work instructions for new tools.
- Strong mechanical aptitude preferred.
- Familiarity with standard laboratory practices and instrumentation, including preparative and analytical HPLC systems, UV/Vis spectrophotometers, and autosamplers.
- Familiarity with oligonucleotides.
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