Blood Bank Equipment Specialist - Manufacturing Lab

At Vitalant, the impact you make doing work that is purposeful, meaningful, and worthwhile is vital. As a member of our non-profit organization, you can be impact-inspired to provide vital clinical services to communities nationwide, vital products to those in need of a donor's generosity, or vital scientific research that advances blood safety worldwide.

Work Shift (if applicable):
Shift 1 (United States of America).

Job Description:

Blood Bank Equipment Specialist — Manufacturing Lab.

Location:

Mather Lab.

Schedule:

Monday–Friday, 8:00 a.m.–4:30 p.m.

Pay Range: $22.89–$29.63 per hour, depending on experience.

Make Your Work Matter  Vitalant, the work you do behind the scenes helps make lifesaving care possible. As an Equipment Specialist in our Manufacturing Lab, you’ll play a critical role in keeping the equipment, systems, and processes that support our operations safe, reliable, compliant, and ready when needed. This is more than an equipment maintenance role. It’s an opportunity to bring your technical expertise, problem-solving skills, and attention to detail to a mission-driven organization where your work directly supports patients, donors, and the communities we serve.

Purpose-driven work. Your expertise helps ensure the equipment used in our operations performs reliably and meets the quality and regulatory standards essential to our mission.

A schedule you can count on. Enjoy a consistent Monday–Friday, 8:00 a.m.–4:30 p.m. schedule.

Be the equipment expert. Serve as a subject matter expert for our computerized maintenance management system (CMMS), equipment validation, maintenance, calibration, and asset management processes.

Make an impact through improvement. Your ideas and technical knowledge will help strengthen processes, solve problems, improve efficiency, and support departmental goals.

Work with a collaborative team. We value communication, respect, diverse perspectives, and teamwork. You’ll have opportunities to partner with colleagues, management, vendors, and other internal customers.

Build expertise that matters. Gain hands‑on experience with equipment qualification, validation, preventative maintenance, calibration, documentation, compliance, and audit readiness in a highly regulated environment.

• Coordinate equipment ordering, installation, validation, qualification, maintenance, repair, and return to service.
• Schedule and perform quality control (QC) and preventative maintenance (PM) on lab and blood manufacturing equipment.
• Maintain accurate equipment records in the computerized maintenance management system (CMMS).
• Serve as a subject matter expert for the asset management system and help ensure work orders are released, completed, documented, and closed on time.
• Perform installation, validation, and qualification procedures for newly acquired equipment and equipment returning from repair or maintenance.
• Maintain and calibrate temperature logging equipment.
• Track equipment status and maintain accurate equipment files, location logs, spreadsheets, and documentation.
• Coordinate equipment repairs, order replacement parts, maintain parts inventory, and document repairs and returns to operations.
• Maintain vendor manuals and equipment documentation, including appropriate archiving.
• Support internal and external audits by gathering equipment records and answering equipment-related questions.
• Partner with management on process improvements, compliance concerns, budgeting discussions, and timely follow‑up.
• Assist with the development of standard operating procedures (SOPs) related to equipment validation.
• Communicate equipment status changes and other relevant information to appropriate departments.
• Identify and escale compliance issues to management.
• Perform all responsibilities in accordance with Vitalant SOPs, applicable regulations, and equipment manufacturer requirements.

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Ability to read, write, and speak English effectively and follow oral and written instructions.
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to quality.
• Strong problem‑solving skills and the ability to work independently.
• Ability to…