Laboratory Technician/Service Technician

Position Details

Job Title: Laboratory Technician/Service Technician

Work Location: Seattle, WA

Duration: 6-12 Months

Job responsibilities

• This job contributes to Client success by completing assigned projects and tasks that support successful execution of global product and equipment development initiatives and programs
• Models and acts in accordance with Client guiding principles

Summary of Key Responsibilities

• Works closely with R&D engineers and technicians to perform advanced troubleshooting and failure analysis of prototype hardware, test fixtures, and precision mechanical or electro mechanical sub-components
• Supports engineering by performing complex tasks that involve modifying, fabricating, assembling, testing, evaluating, and programming mechanical or electromechanical devices, and determining improvements
• Works from sketches and verbal instructions where processes, materials, layout, types of components, piece parts and dimensions may not always be completely specified
• Evaluates and suggests changes to designs, materials, and methods
• Sets up and executes complex laboratory testing, develops and reviews protocols and methods, analyzes, verifies, and records data, writes test summary reports and discusses results
• Operates computers to perform data analysis, interprets test data and may modify test plans and setups based on intermediate results
• May document and maintain complex engineering drawings
• Often works independently with minimal guidance
• Maintains a detailed engineering notebook
• Lab Management: Maintains general cleanliness and orderliness of labs and mock up areas, orders, tracks, and stocks parts, materials, supplies, plans lab and equipment operation, maintains calendars for resource utilization
• Administrative Support: monitors instrumentation and equipment calibration and maintenance programs, maintains lab files and reports, ships, receives, and inventories experimental equipment and products

Summary of Experience

• Hardware troubleshooting and repair: 5 years
• Equipment or product development: 5 years
• Bench top and laboratory experimental design and execution: 5 years
• Laboratory and equipment operation, calibration and maintenance: 5 years

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Ability to organize information, work independently, and contribute as part of a team
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel Word, PowerPoint, and Project
• Laboratory experimentation skills including measurement, reporting, data acquisition systems, data analysis and processing
• Ability to use of laboratory instrumentation and analytical equipment
• Knowledge of scientific principles, food microbiology, engineering
• Familiarity with CAD packages and 3D solid modeling

To get further details or to apply for this position please contact

Manish Maggoo

973-646-9989