QC Lab Equipment Associate

A unique career opportunity for a Senior QC Analyst responsible for lab equipment qualification and life cycle management within a leading biopharmaceutical company in South Dublin. The successful candidates will need to have a background in QC lab equipment validation, qualification, life cycle management and liaising with vendors.

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The successful candidates will be involved with routine activities and may be requested to support project work. For the most part project work consists of the introduction and qualification of analytical equipment for use in routine QC analysis and the candidate should have specific hands-on laboratory equipment lifecycle and validation

Top Skills:

- Candidates must have direct involvement in equipment quality installation or maintenance programs. This goes beyond simple data entry or using Excel spreadsheets-candidates must demonstrate experience coordinating proactive, prevention-focused maintenance schedules, and collaborating with vendors for onsite support. A key aspect of this role includes thorough document review related to maintenance activities.
- Ideal candidates have a proven track record of assessing equipment integrity through periodic validation and challenge testing, ensuring ongoing compliance. Experience in computer system validation (CSV) or equivalent is highly valued, especially for those who have managed or reviewed revalidation cycles to determine if further work is necessary.
- Strong familiarity with relevant computer applications is essential, enabling candidates to efficiently manage documentation, reporting, and data analysis tasks.
- Demonstrated experience in change control processes is critical. Candidates should be able to manage and document changes to equipment, procedures, or systems while ensuring regulatory compliance and operational continuity.

Overview:

- Responsible for planning, executing and documenting the qualification, calibration and routine maintenance of laboratory systems for cGMP Quality Control laboratory.
- Responsible for ensuring that all maintenance & calibration activities carried out by Calibration Technicians are tracked & managed through the Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS) Maximo.
- Responsible for authoring/owning and approving Validation Life Cycle documents for computer related systems including responsibility for Data Integrity testing and business administration of Laboratory Computer Related systems.
- Responsible for the execution of protocols once approved.
- For this position Candidate should have specific hands-on laboratory equipment lifecycle and validation experience.

Key Responsibilities include

- Planning and conducting routine calibration, requalification and maintenance of laboratory equipment ensuring calibration and maintenance schedules are adhered to as per CMMS Maximo. Reviewing & filing of QC calibration & maintenance documentation.
- Planning, executing and documenting the qualification of new laboratory equipment in a cGMP regulated environment, including the writing of equipment validation protocols and associated summary reports.
- Conduct periodic reviews of instrument validation as part of validation life cycle.
- Alerting Quality Control Management in the event of equipment failing to meet calibration or qualification requirements and conducting impact assessments/investigations as required
- Scheduling and coordination of equipment repairs and maintenance with vendors/contractors, while minimizing level of down-time for lab equipment, and disruption to laboratory activities.
- Participation in technical project teams to act as a subject matter expert on instrument validation regulations and procedures.
- Where applicable, owns and project manages change controls and adherence to Change Control metrics
- Supporting and managing the addition of project components to CMMA Maximo
- Act as a key contributor and sponsor to Data Integrity Assessments for Lab systems
- Any other tasks/projects assigned as per manger's request

Knowledge and Experience:

- Bachelor's degree in a Science related field is required.
- Minimum of 3 years of laboratory experience in a cGMP laboratory environment including exposure to analytical instrument validation and data integrity assessments.
- Detailed knowledge of the methodology, instrumentation and analytical techniques used for biopharmaceutical testing.
- Understanding of current regulatory requirements for cGMP laboratory equipment validation and electronic record integrity.
- Demonstrated success in managing an equipment qualification or maintenance program advantageous.