Associate Engineer – Primary Container & Device Testing​/Analytical Lab ; Vials, Syring

Job Title: Associate Engineer – Primary Container & Device Testing / Analytical Lab Support (Vials, Syringes, Packaging Systems) – JP15291

Location: Thousand Oaks, CA, 91320

Employment Type: Contract

Business Unit: DP&DD Pre-Comm. Packaging Development

Duration: 18+ months (with likely extensions and/or conversion to permanent)

Posting Date: 04/30/26

Pay Rate: $30 - $34/hour W2

Notes: Only qualified candidates need apply. Role is expected to be onsite 3 times a week. Please send in local candidates. Candidates who either live within a 50 mile drive or would be willing to relocate. Contract is 18 months.

3 Key Consulting is hiring an Associate Engineer - Primary Container & Device Testing / Analytical Lab Support (Vials, Syringes, Packaging Systems) for a consulting engagement with our direct client, a leading global biopharmaceutical company.

Ideal candidate: flexible with overtime during the week when necessary. Rarely will they need to work over 12 hours in a day. Preferring bachelor’s degree in Bioscience or Engineering.

Position involves support of senior staff in the initiation, design, and delivery of projects, particularly for primary containers (vials, stoppers, and syringes) and medical devices.

Responsibilities include:

• Employing basic science and engineering skills and practices to gather user requirements and translate them into technical documentation for execution
• Assisting with project definition by performing engineering studies and assessments

Supplement additional workload on team.

• Technical writing skills
• Strong ability to analyze data generated from a variety of analytical techniques and systems is preferred
• Previous lab experience in Engineering or Biochemistry labs is helpful but not required

Assist engineers with the following:

• Designing studies and drafting protocols
• Compiling historical data from different analytical systems
• Analyzing data and presenting results
• Writing summary reports
• Executing protocols, including lab testing (using vacuum decay leak tester, Instron force testers, balances, microscopes, pressure chambers, analytical measurement equipment such as calipers, optical comparators, bore gauges, automated stoppering units, pipettes, and decrimpers).

• Bachelor degree OR Associate degree and 4 years of experience OR High school diploma / GED and 6 years of experience
• Previous lab experience
• Strong oral and verbal communication and presentation skills
• Experience in analysis of data generated from a variety of analytical techniques is preferred

• Candidate has inflexible schedule
• Candidate cannot work possible overtime
• Candidate cannot work onsite at Thousand Oaks, CA
• Bachelor’s degree not in Science or Engineering

• One-on-one phone screening, followed by an in-person 1:6-10 person group interview (Virtual interviews for non-local candidates)
• Interviews can start immediately

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