MS&T Team Lead

If you’re ready to make a meaningful, life-saving contribution, your journey starts here.

Join a diverse, purpose-driven team where scientists, engineers, technicians, and other professionals collaborate on work directly impacting patients and are guided by shared values of Teamwork, Integrity, Courage, and Upright Zeal.

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Location: Lansing, MI

Job :326

# of Openings:1

We are a team of scientists, engineers, technicians, and innovators dedicated to changing the world by developing medical isotopes to treat and eradicate cancer. We believe in building an environment where collaboration, curiosity, and camaraderie thrive. We also enjoy darts, cornhole, ping-pong, chili cook-offs, and other fun events that makes our company a community where we make a life, not just a living.

Your technical know-how in performing new experiments & optimizing system performance is a desirable pastime for you. You find continuous improvement to be invigorating. Words that describe how you work with others include curious, thorough, and engaging.

You’re passionate about mentoring others, helping them solve complex problems, and driving operational excellence. You embrace leadership as a privilege and a responsibility, and you model a culture of respect, learning, and achievement. You’re resilient, collaborative, and energized by helping the team succeed.

The Manufacturing Science & Technology (MS&T) Accelerator Team Lead will take a leading role in scaling up accelerator processes, optimizing production workflows, and supporting transfer of technical knowledge across Niowave’s MS&T and Production functions. The role emphasizes safety, quality, and operational excellence while providing mentorship and coaching to developing scientists and technicians.

• Leads and supports production accelerator troubleshooting and process improvement projects, ensuring technical robustness and reproducibility
• Collaborates with the Production, Quality, and Engineering teams to ensure successful implementation of Ac-225 process improvements
• Conducts troubleshooting and root cause analysis for production and MS&T issues
• Maintains compliance with all cGMP and radiation safety procedures
• Supports preparation and review of technical documentation including SOPs, batch records, process descriptions, and validation protocols
• Drives continuous improvement initiatives to increase yield, purity, and process control
• Provides day-to-day technical and operational guidance to MS&T team members in partnership with leadership
• Serves as a mentor and coach to early career scientists and technicians, fostering a positive learning culture
• Coordinates onboarding, training, and competency assessments in collaboration with Training Specialists & Supervisor

• Bachelor degree in science/engineering field or equivalent education/experience
  • Physics, nuclear engineering or related field
• 6+ years’ experience operating in accelerator operations environment including hands‑on experience with the following:
  • Accelerator systems
  • Radioactive material
  • Routine production environment
  • Regulated environment
• 2+ years’ experience of progressive technical leadership and mentoring team members
• Embraces & models the Niowave Values of Teamwork, Courage, Integrity, and Upright Zeal
• Understands how to integrate into a new team/organization
• Appreciates the current state of systems and processes and exercises sound judgment in proposing and implementing improvements
• Understands personal communication and learning styles and adapts approach to connect effectively with others
• Demonstrates ability to apply logic and reasoning to solve complex problems, including identifying strengths/weaknesses, locating alternative solutions, conclusions, and…