Job Description
Job Description
Instrument Technician (Calibration) Tech – Engineering
The Instrument Tech will have a key role responsible for calibration activities to maintain assets in compliance with cGMP. The technician will be, at a minimum, responsible for the following:
- Servicing, troubleshooting, and maintaining instrumentation that is part of: process utilities, grey utilities, critical HVAC systems, process equipment, process systems, cleaning equipment and equipment preparation systems.
- Know, execute and improve instrument configurations and calibrations according to local owner job plans and procedures.
- Display good documentation practices (paper and electronic based documentation)
- Support start-up and commissioning of corporate and local capital projects
Key Responsibilities
Startup:
- Support a safety-first, and quality driven maintenance team.
- Ability to respond quickly and proactively to changing priorities within a reasonable timeframe.
- Maintain Secondary calibration standards.
- Cross functionally collaboration with Operations, Utilities, Laboratories.
- Follow maintenance procedures such as Lockout/Tagout (LOTO), Job Hazard Analysis (JHA), and Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) work plans.
- Support C&Q activities, including but not limited to, initial calibrations, shakedowns, initial/operational verification, and/or equipment qualification.
- Perform initial calibrations of instruments.
- Perform preventive and corrective maintenance and calibration on Process Instrumentation, Temperature, Pressure, Flow. Level and Automatic Control Valves, pH, conductivity/resistivity,
- Troubleshoot and diagnose Process Instrumentation Equipment problems and make appropriate repairs to minimize downtime.
- Perform modifications and new installations of process instrumentation.
- Ability to read P & ID drawings and schematics.
- High attention to details especially in GMP documentation.
Post Startup:
- Support site instrumentation and system change controls, including but not limited, capital projects, site process improvements, C&Q activities, calibrations, shakedowns, initial/operational verification, and/or equipment qualification.
- Perform preventive and corrective maintenance on Process Instrumentation, Temperature, Pressure, Flow and Automatic Control Valves
- Ensure ongoing continuous maintenance system improvements.
- Support communications between Operation shifts, Maintenance, Engineering, Automation, and site customers to keep them informed of any issues that could affect them.
- Identify and implement “Human Error Prevention” opportunities.
- Use basic GMARS functionality daily.
- Use of GMARS closing notes using work order codes daily
- Ability to use Microsoft Office tools.
People Management:
- Ensure the company values, standards, and polices are communicated to and modelled within the team.
- Ensure on-going learning and team reflection.
- Identify and implement changes to work practices to optimize team efficiency.
- Support all safety practices and encourage others to do the same. Stop work if unsafe conditions are found.
Basic Qualifications
- Education: High School Diploma (preferred associate degree in Electronics)
- Experience: Minimum of two years of applied electronics and/or system maintenance experience
Shift Hours
- This position is on site Monday-Friday. Some overtime, or non-dayshifts may be required, but will be scheduled and confirmed ahead of time
- Unscheduled overtime will be held to a minimum, but may be necessary in the event of critical failures.
Additional Skills/Preferences
- Pressure, Flow, Temperature as previous experience.
- pH, Conductivity, Resistivity, as a plus.
- Lab instrumentation, Incubators, HPLC,
- Familiar with maintenance CMMS, Maximo
- Manufacturing experience
- Knowledgeable of pharmaceutical operations and processes or other GMP practices
- Physical requirements
- Ability to lift 40 lbs.
- Awkward positions, cramped quarters, ladders, scaffoldings, and lifts will be required at times.
- Overtime may be required pending work demands.
- Work may occur in a wide range of temperature conditions
Job Tags
Full time, Work at office, Local area, Monday to Friday, Shift work,