# Equipment Engineer

**Company**: GenScript Biotech Corporation
**Location**: Piscataway, New Jersey
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $65,000 - $75,000
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

The Equipment Engineer reports to the Manager II, Engineering and supports laboratory and production equipment at our Piscataway, NJ facilities.

This hands-on role maintains and repairs assigned equipment, improves reliability, and keeps complete records of equipment work.

**Job Responsibilities:**

**Hands-On Maintenance and Repair:**

- Perform scheduled preventive maintenance and calibration activities on assigned laboratory and production equipment.

- Diagnose equipment failures, perform repairs, verify performance, and coordinate return to service.

- Support various instruments, including liquid handlers, automated systems, HPLC systems, centrifuges, and thermal cyclers.

**Vendor and Service Management:**

- Determine when work should be outsourced to OEM or qualified service providers.

- Schedule and coordinate vendor visits, oversee work, and communicate timing to users.

- Review vendor service reports and calibration certificates.

**Asset and Work Order Management:**

- Create and maintain CMMS work orders for failures, repairs, preventive maintenance, and calibration.

- Record symptoms, troubleshooting, work performed, parts used, results, and equipment status.

- Maintain accurate asset histories, maintenance schedules, and equipment inventory records.

**Reliability, Quality, and Compliance:**

- Review work order history for repeat failures, downtime, and recurring costs.

- Perform equipment work according to site procedures and Quality requirements.

- Support equipment-related deviations, root cause investigations, and corrective actions.

**Communication and Collaboration:**

- Communicate equipment status, risks, and recovery times to users, management, and the Equipment team.

- Coordinate work with users to minimize disruption.

**Qualifications:**

- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related technical or scientific field.

- Three or more years of relevant equipment engineering, maintenance, field service, or calibration experience.

- Hands-on experience with laboratory equipment maintenance and repair.

- Ability to use a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS).

- Familiarity with applicable GMP, ISO, or other regulated quality practices.

**Benefits:**

- Medical, dental, and vision insurance

- 401(k) retirement plan with company match

- Paid parental leave

- Paid time off policy

- Flexible spending and health savings accounts

- Life and AD&D insurance

- Short- and long-term disability coverage

- Legal assistance

- Supplemental plans

## Skills

### Required
- equipment engineering
- maintenance
- calibration
- GMP
- ISO
- CMMS

### Nice to have
- laboratory equipment troubleshooting
- OEM service providers
- regulated quality practices

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