Quality - Laboratory Technician

Quality
- Laboratory Technician

Be part of a company that delivers life-changing healthcare solutions. ECLARO is looking for a Quality
- Laboratory Technician for our client in New Brunswick, NJ. ECLARO's client is a leader in the Biopharmaceutical Industry, providing quality, innovative, and affordable medicines that make a difference in the lives of patients all over the world. If you're up to the challenge, then take a chance at this rewarding opportunity!

The Laboratory Operations Specialist is responsible for end to end laboratory management and operational excellence supporting process development activities within the New Brunswick Biologics Development laboratories. This role provides independent oversight of laboratory operations, including consumables and chemical inventory, instrument maintenance and calibration, lab compliance, and routine facility readiness. The individual interfaces with cross functional teams, vendors, lab services, and quality systems to ensure laboratories remain inspection ready, efficient, safe, and compliant with GMP and site requirements.

In addition to lab operations leadership, the role contributes to continuous improvement initiatives and provides limited assay or analytical support as needed.

• Laboratory Operations & Inventory Management:
  • Places and tracks on demand lab supply orders in response to analyst and project needs; monitors order status and receipt.
  • Assists in sample preparations to migrate between sites
  • Coordinate consumable needs based on inventory amounts with lab services
  • Assists in day-to-day lab operations, such as, but not limited to: calibrating probes, ensuring equipment is sanitized, lab computers are updated, move samples, etc.
• Instrumentation Maintenance, Calibration & Vendor Coordination:
  • Coordinates pipette calibration services and documentation control.
  • Serves as primary liaison with instrument management group, Client system owners, vendors and service engineers (e.g., Waters, Sciex, Protein Simple, Thermo Fisher, Millipore).
  • Manages instrument calibration and maintenance documentation
  • Coordinates repairs and new equipment installation for analytical instrumentation, including (not limited to): HPLC /UPLC systems, Mass Spec, and Capillary Electrophoresis
• Laboratory Readiness, Compliance &
  
  Housekeeping:
  • Conducts weekly laboratory safety walkthroughs and documents observations, risks, and action items.
  • Maintains scheduled weekly, monthly, and quarterly lab maintenance activities
  • Provides metrics on Instrument Usage records accordingly.
  • Organizes freezer and cold room supply reviews and expired material cleanouts / defrosts.
  • Creates lab related work orders, move requests, and equipment decommissioning activities.

• Required minimum Associate Degree with (1) year of lab technician/operation experience, or Bachelor's degree preferred
• Able to communicate with lab services, facilities, engineers, vendors, and scientists
• Knowledge in general lab instrumentations, safety, and activities
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (particularly Excel)
• Ability to familiarize quickly with new computer software
• Self-starter with strong organizational skills.

$31.95-$33.88/Hour If hired, you will enjoy the following ECLARO Benefits:

• 401k Retirement Savings Plan administered by Merrill Lynch
• Commuter Check Pretax Commuter Benefits
• Eligibility to purchase Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance through ECLARO

Equal Opportunity

Employer:

ECLARO values diversity and does not discriminate based on Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other legally protected group status, in compliance with all applicable laws.