Senior Equipment Engineer

Summary

Our client, a Fortune 500 Pharmaceutical Company, has engaged GForce Life Sciences to provide a Senior Equipment Engineer (SEE) will plan for all major research equipment in the campus expansion project. The SEE shall ensure that all requirements are met for planning, scoping, specifying, testing, shielding, locating, rigging, installing and commissioning major equipment. The Senior Equipment Engineer will play an active role during the programming, design, construction and move-in phases of capital projects to ensure that the complex requirements of lab equipment are met.

Requirements for lab equipment are to include spatial requirements, utilities, environmental, health and safety (EHS), and environmental conditions required for operation of the equipment.

Job Duties

• Serve as the point person for coordinating all lab equipment related requirements on all Capital Projects
• Work with R&D finance to budget and plan all major equipment, including special requirements, testing, shielding, shipping and rigging issues
• Collaborate with various groups (including the scientists, space planners, engineers, IT, asset managers, procurement, EHS and project managers) as well as outside companies (lab equipment vendors, architects, engineers, contractors, trade subcontractors and move management companies) for all the lab equipment related aspect of a project.
• Work with the end users and the Asset Management team to identify new lab equipment and to develop thorough and accurate programming documents for lab equipment at the start of a project, including review of existing equipment to be relocated and specifications for new and existing equipment.
• Define all peripheral equipment to be purchased to meet process (end user) needs.
• Insure all vital spare parts and long lead time spare part items are defined and included in PO.
• Continue to monitor the status of the lab equipment acquisitions by the end users during the project to ensure that changes to the lab equipment list are addressed during the design phase
• Conduct field visits to the construction site including checking rough-in of utilities as well as checking utility connection points while finish work is being completed.
• Coordinate move management companies and lab equipment vendors in the installation, commissioning, calibration and validation of lab equipment (IQ, OQ, PQ and testing)
• Assist the Asset Management group in updating the asset records for the equipment in the Integrated Workplace Management System (Tririga), including uploading reference & maintenance guides, warrantees, service agreements, preventative maintenance tasks and specification sheets
• Collaborate with the vendors, end users, Asset Management group, procurement, R&D finance, shipping and receiving to ensure that lab equipment is ordered and delivered in a timely manner that coordinates with the floor/room/facilities floor preparedness and readiness, and, when necessary, coordinate requirements for on-site or off-site storage of equipment
• Interview vendors and manufacturers review their portfolios, manufacturer’s business health, and visit manufacturers for review of production facilities and equipment

Coordinate with preferred equipment vendors, the architects and engineers designing a project, the contractors and subcontractors building the project, the engineers and the EHS, IT and Operations groups to ensure that all specifications and requirements for the equipment are fully documented and that the design documents and construction execution fully addresses those requirements including, but not limited to:

• Spatial requirements and structural requirements including clearances for access and serviceability, as well as any required accessories (computers, gas cylinders, other components)
• Building services (cylinder and house gasses, plumbing, drainage, pumps, electricity, UPS, data, vacuum, steam, RODI water, BMS monitoring, mechanical connections), including correct connectors to the equipment and their locations
• Environmental requirements (humidity, temperature, air cleanliness, vibration, exhaust, electromagnetic noise, shielding, flatness and leveling requirements for floors)
• Envi…