Associate Lab Support Engineer

Work Schedule

Environmental Conditions

Job Description

At Thermo Fisher Scientific youll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life - enabling our customers to make the world healthier cleaner and safer. We provide our teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research development and delivery of life-changing therapies. With clinical trials conducted in 100 countries and ongoing development of novel frameworks for clinical research through our PPD clinical research portfolio our work spans laboratory digital and decentralized clinical trial services. Your determination to deliver quality and accuracy will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on now and in the future.

Our PPD Laboratory Services team has a direct impact on improving patient health through the expertise of scientists industry thought-leaders and therapeutic experts. As the world leader in serving science our laboratory professionals bring their commitment to accuracy and quality to deliver groundbreaking innovations.

Discover Impactful Work:

Provides system analysis of new laboratory instrumentation as well as maintenance of existinginstrumentation. Assists in the validation and qualification of laboratory instrumentation. Troubleshoots and repairs existing laboratory equipment and interacts with vendors and provides repair andmaintenance of analytical instrumentation. Supports laboratory personnel in meeting specific sponsortimelines regarding analytical results.

A Day in the Life:

Performs Performance Qualification (PQ) and repair on deployedinstrumentation.
Coordinates with Operations staff on deployment of instrumentation.
Performs unit system testing to include IQ (Installation Qualification) OQ
(Operation Qualification) and calibration; Performs validation testing as needed.
Assists in developing Standard Operating Procedures and testing procedures foremerging technologies and performance qualification (PQ) regiments for existingtechnologies.
Assists the installation of new instrumentation.
Provides basic operator training to end-users on analytical instrumentation.
Evaluates lab support records for compliance with SOPs reviews for
completeness and accuracy and reports findings.

Education and Experience:
Bachelors degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification

Previous experience that provides the knowledge skills and abilities to perform the job (comparable to
5-8 years).

In some cases an equivalency consisting of a combination of appropriate education training and/or directly related experience will be considered sufficient for an individual to meet the requirements of the role.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities:
Working knowledge and understanding of laboratory equipment and foundations of troubleshooting
Knowledge of mass spectrometry liquid chromatography relational databases and other analytical
instrumentation operation
Working knowledge with systems in use at PPD or within the CRO/Pharmaceutical industry
Client focused approach with strong interpersonal skills
Strong analytical and problem solving skills
Ability to communicate effective with vendors clients and all levels of staff
Attention to detail and ability to multi-task
Ability to train others
Ability to work in a collaborative team environment

Work Environment:

Thermo Fisher Scientific values the health and wellbeing of our employees. We support and encourage individuals to create a healthy and balanced environment where they can thrive. Below is listed the working environment/requirements for this role:

• Able to communicate receive and understand information and ideas with diverse groups of people in a comprehensible and reasonable manner.
• Able to work upright and stationary and/or standing for typical working hours.
• Able to lift and move objects up to 25 pounds.
• Able to work in non-traditional work environments.
• Able to use and learn standard office equipment and technology with proficiency.
• May have exposure to potentially hazardous elements including infectious agents typically found in healthcare or laboratory environments.
• Able to perform successfully under pressure while prioritizing and handling multiple projects or activities.