Manufacturing Engineer I

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.