QC Metrologist

Expect to grow, personally and professionally:
At Siegfried, we offer exciting challenges and ample opportunities to showcase your talents. As a trusted and respected partner to the pharmaceutical industry, we uphold the highest standards in safety, quality and sustainability, while fostering a culture that empowers you to thrive. Join a rapidly expanding global company, where diverse perspectives and experiences come together in a collaborative environment. Here, you'll find a workplace that values both collective success and your individual contributions—offering long‑term opportunities to grow and make an impact.

Oversees all metrology activities, including equipment calibration, maintenance, troubleshooting, and documentation to ensure compliance with cGMP, regulatory, and industry standards. Manages reference standards through receipt, qualification, inventory tracking, and disposal while supporting analytical development, regulatory submissions, and continuous improvement of laboratory operations.

Essential Duties, Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

• Installs and calibrates measurement instruments and systems.
• Performs routine maintenance and troubleshooting of measurement equipment.
• Analyzes measurement data to ensure accuracy and consistency.
• Develops measurement procedures and protocols.
• Ensures compliance with industry standards and regulatory requirements.
• Provides technical support and training to other departments.
• Documents and reports measurement and calibration results.
• Conducts research to improve measurement techniques and technologies.
• Collaborates with engineers and scientists to resolve measurement challenges.
• Certifies equipment and processes according to national and international standards.
• Maintains all QC Laboratory equipment and stability chambers.
• Maintains all AR&D equipment.
• Maintains environmental equipment.
• Maintains production lab balance.
• Assists chemical development with equipment acquisition and maintenance.
• Troubleshoots all equipment issues in a timely fashion.
• Aids in lab investigations that are equipment related.
• Aids in IQ/OQ/PQ documents where a service contract is not applicable.
• Aids in CSV tasks for new instrumentation and routine reviews.
• Acts as the main contact for services reps associated with instrumentation.
• Negotiates service contracts on essential equipment.
• Trains new analysts on maintenance of instruments.
• Writes and/or revises SOPs associated with reference calibration of instruments.
• Writes capital appropriation requests for new equipment purchases.
• Compiles all routine calibration data for equipment files.
• Maintains calibration records and instrument tagging.
• Assists IT with Empower administration.
• Purchases consumables, reference standards, equipment, etc. when needed.
• Creates purchase requisitions and works with purchasing department.
• Administrator for USP subscription.
• Provides 24‑hour support as needed on call.

• Receives, processes, stores, and tracks the inventory of reference standards and related materials (like chromatographic columns).
• Performs reconciliation and coordinates the disposal of expired or used standards.
• Monitors and supports the integrated inventory management process.
• Works with AR&D on the development of new standards for new methods.
• Submits all standards for testing to applicable in‑house or external labs.
• Writes and/or revises SOPs associated with reference standards.
• Ensures USP standards are current to the most recently issued USP Catalog.
• Compiles standard qualification data for reference standard files.
• Maintains reference standard files.
• Provides reference standard CoAs to regulatory for submission in current DMF.
• Supports sales with customer standard requests.
• Repackages standards from bulk containers.
• Tracks standard inventory.
• Arranges for disposition of expired/out‑of‑spec material.
• Adheres to all applicable cGMP and SHE regulations.
• Performs any other laboratory task deemed necessary by the Director of Quality Control.
• Adheres to personal moral, ethical, legal, and behavioral conduct in compliance with the Siegfried Code of Conduct.
• Supervisory responsibilities:
  
  This position has no direct reports.