Life Science Engineer Lead

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The Life Science Engineer, Lead is the senior technical person at an assigned Johnson & Johnson site under the Enterprise Laboratory Instrument Services (ELIS) program. The role carries a full service caseload and, alongside it, technical authority for the site. This is a working lead, not a manager. The Lead performs calibration, scheduled maintenance, demand maintenance and repair on the site asset base like any engineer, and is additionally the person the site turns to when a repair is beyond another engineer, when a vendor recommendation needs challenging, or when a technical judgment has to be made and nobody more senior is on site.

• Perform calibration, scheduled maintenance (SM), demand maintenance (DM), diagnostics and repair across the assigned site asset base
• Carry a full service caseload alongside the lead responsibilities of the role
• Restore instruments to service and verify performance against manufacturer specification before release
• Support instrument installation, relocation, qualification and decommissioning alongside the Lifecycle and Relocations Coordinator
• Cover satellite locations assigned to the site, including remote technical support where an in-person visit is not warranted

• Act as the technical escalation point for site engineers and technicians on difficult diagnostics and repairs
• Determine whether a reported issue is an instrument fault, an operator or method issue, a consumable or sample issue, or an environmental condition, before a service call is raised
• Review vendor and OEM diagnoses and quoted repairs, and challenge scope that is disproportionate to the fault
• Make the return-to-service decision on instruments where site judgment is required
• Provide technical input on repair versus replace, end of life and capital replacement candidates

• Allocate technical work across site engineers and technicians day to day in agreement with the Site Operations Manager
• Coach and develop site technical staff on platform knowledge, diagnostic method and documentation quality
• Verify that engineers and technicians are qualified on a platform before they work on it independently
• Build platform coverage depth so no single instrument family depends on one person
• Identify training needs and feed them to the Technical Training Specialist

• Identify assets where Renovo self-perform service is technically viable and build the case with usage and failure evidence
• Support the qualification path for new platforms brought in scope, including training, tooling and documentation requirements
• Advise on parts, tooling and test equipment needed to expand self-perform coverage at the site
• Track first-time-fix and repeat-fault patterns and act on them

• Own accuracy of the technical record for work performed, including fault found, action taken, parts used and labor time
• Ensure asset configuration, location and status are correct in the system of record after any work that changes them
• Close work orders with complete and accurate data so reporting, invoicing and compliance evidence hold up
• Raise record discrepancies found in the field rather than working around them
• Witness and technically review vendor work where the asset criticality or the quote value warrants it
• Provide the technical basis on which the coordination team approves or rejects a vendor invoice

• Complete all documentation to GxP and client quality system requirements
• Support audits, quality reviews and regulatory inspections with technical evidence
• Follow laboratory safety requirements including biological, chemical, electrical and cryogenic hazards, and exercise stop-work authority when a task cannot be performed safely
• Maintain calibration status and…